Less than one week after SCOTUS
upheld Obamacare and recognized the Constitutionality of gay marriage, the Supreme Court’s Conservative majority blocked one of the Obama administration’s most ambitious
environmental initiative, an Environmental Protection Agency’s
regulation meant to limit power plant mercury
emissions and other toxic pollutants from coal-fired power plants?!?!?
The limits would have translated
into a $37 billion to $90 billion in heath
savings and the prevention of
11,000 premature deaths due to the
effects of exposure to mercury and other pollutants.
The corporate interests snag is -
big money power entities would have
to dish out a $9.6 billion price tag implementing the emissions rules.
Writing for the Republican majority, Justice Antonin Scalia wrote: It is not
rational, never mind appropriate to impose billions of dollars in economic cost
[on big oil interests] in economic costs in return for a few dollars in health or environmental benefits!?!?
Since when did corporate
interests trump
-no pun intended - the health of the American people and the protection of America's environment?
Oh, right…
Since SCOTUS’ Republican Citizens United decision determined that corporations are people too!?!?!
NOTE: Citizens United gave
corporations and unions the green light to spend unlimited sums on ads and
other political tools, calling for the election or defeat of individual candidates
- along with the subsequent control of those candidates who are elected]! (See
The Citizens United decision and why it matters link below.)
This is what happens when Republican presidents
and Republican congressional majorities place right wing activists justices in the
Supreme Court.
Votemout!
SOURCES
New York Times - 2 days ago
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Court Just Stopped the EPA From Making the ...
Citizens United
| OpenSecrets
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