Washington state is the lead state a coalition of 15 states in a federal lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring a “national energy emergency,” and his order to agencies to hurry up on environmental reviews for fossil fuel projects.
The lawsuit, announced by Democrat Washington Attorney General Nick Brown, was filed in U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington. Brown said the emergency declaration is unlawful and aimed at locking the nation into continued reliance on fossil fuels.
Other states joining the case are Democrat-run: California, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin. This is Brown’s 17th lawsuit against the Trump Administration.
“This is not a serious or lawful effort by the president. It is all about eliminating competition and shackling America to dirty fossil fuels forever,” Brown stated at a news conference.
Trump’s executive order was issued Jan. 20, moments after he took the oath of office, and included strong support for Alaska’s oil economy. His order ignored solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources, which have proven costly.
“Our Nation’s current inadequate development of domestic energy resources leaves us vulnerable to hostile foreign actors and poses an imminent and growing threat to the United States’ prosperity and national security,” the order stated.
According to Brown’s office, since the order’s signing, federal agencies have already begun fast-tracking fossil fuel projects, sidestepping critical reviews mandated by the Clean Water Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act.
The lawsuit argues that Trump’s invocation of a national emergency is baseless and in direct contradiction to the original intent of the National Emergencies Act.
The case could set the stage for a major legal battle over the scope of presidential authority and the future of environmental policy in the United States.
The Eskimo Mafia (aka #TribesThatBribes) should feel empowered by this weak pointless desperate act to cling to the USAID | Sorosian grift-a-plenty upon which they subsist in lieu of honest work
Let’s start by announcing Alaska is moving the southern terminal of the Alaska Marine Highway from Fairview to Tsawassen, B.C. That will go a long way in mending the bruised egos of BC people. Then Alaskans should minimize buying items, supplies, etc. from any of these states that are parties to this dumb lawsuit. Liberalism rots people’s brains.
So much for respecting the will of the people
if only we could get the President to pause the Jones Act, then we’d really see them squeal!
The Seattle shipowner cartel would pitch a huge fit over stopping their rent seeking like that. Its why they got Jones put in
I know one of liberal’s favorite phrases:
“What you resist, persists.”
Trump has everyone’s attention and is continuing to gain power.
Nothing can stop what is coming.
Federal Judge Sharon Gleason has already risked our lives in her shutdown of our primary source of gas in Cook Inlet. Let’s put these a-holes in a home that only has natural gas for heat in -20-degree weather and see how they fare.
Perhaps we need to put Alaskan residents on the “Endangered Species” list if they’re going to threaten our ability to survive through winters.
“California, Arizona, Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Wisconsin.” Not one of whom has the right to determine Alaska’s commerce or future. Time to DOGE the EPA.
This dipsticks are hanging their hats on solar and wind. Was it not JUST LAST WEEK that the Iberian peninsula and parts of France went dark due to near total reliance on these energy source. People that know pointed out the the lack of ‘inertia’ in the generation systems was the most likely cause of the cascade failure. The solution? The mass containing in spinning turbines that can ride through fluctuations in the grid. Solar and wind have no practical inertia in their generation systems.
Why can’t we learn from other peoples mistakes instead of following them like lemmings…right over the cliff?
Attorney General Nick Brown needs a comeuppance. And an education.
Washington State: Please stay out of our politics…Pres Trump has seen where interference isn’t the best medicine..We need to be dependent on our OWN resources..and Our Own sources are supplying your needs. You’re just going to stab your self in the back..When you take our seafood in unethical means by trawlers that scrap the bottom of the seafloor clean and then you waste our seafood by tossing out what your boats don’t want or wasn’t supposed to catch.