The Southeastern Legal Foundation and several members of Congress have filed a lawsuit against the EPA over its plans to regulate carbon dioxide greenhouse gas emissions:
The petition argues that news of a conspiracy within the scientific community to hide evidence that calls into question manmade impacts on global warming has emerged since the closing of public comment on the EPA filing.
According to widespread media reports, e-mails stolen from the climate unit at the University of East Anglia in Great Britain appeared to show some of the world’s leading scientists discussing how to shield data from the public.
“The scientific basis for the EPA endangerment finding is flawed, based on questionable and potentially fraudulent data, and certainly does not rise to the level of certainty necessary to upend the American economy, toss millions out of work, and which promises little or no climate change benefit over the next half-century,” said Shannon Goessling, the group’s executive director and chief legal counsel. “Using the Clean Air Act as a weapon and a shield does not justify the bigger agenda of command-and-control.”
The foundation also criticized the EPA finding as an attempt to bypass Congress by imposing costly regulation of greenhouse gases administratively.
The one thing I wish this lawsuit would accomplish, and I realize the odds against it, is too see regulatory bodies, such as the EPA, be stripped of the ability to change laws without the approval of Congress. I recall somewhere in the Constitution that Congress was the law making body in our system of government, not bureaucrats that serve at the pleasure of the president.
