Coal mining company Murray Energy Corp. said it has filed a federal
lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop its
carbon emissions rules for power plants, calling them “illegal,
irrational, and destructive cap-and-tax regulations.” Murray filed
its lawsuit in the Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia
Circuit Wednesday, the same day the proposal was formally published in the Federal Register. “This is clearly an illegal attempt by the Obama EPA to impose
irrational and destructive cap-and-tax mandates, which Congress and the
American people have consistently rejected,” Murray spokesman Gary
Broadbent, said in a statement. “These proposed rules will cause
immediate and irreparable harm to Americans, including our citizens on
fixed incomes and our manufacturers of products that compete in the
global marketplace,” he said. Courts usually can only review regulations after they are made final, which EPA does not plan to do for another year. But
Murray argued in its court filing that the courts have “undoubted
authority to prohibit unlawful actions before they are taken in
extraordinary circumstances.” EPA is obviously acting beyond its power
in this case, which warrants court action before the rule is made final,
Murray said...more
Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
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