Texas gets pwned by courts - again - in challenge to Clean Air Act

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Texas Governor Rick Perry reacts to the news that Texas is part of the United States.

"Texas just lost another round in its bizarre and solitary quest to block the first carbon pollution control requirements under the Clean Air Act, which take effect next week. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, in New Orleans, rejected the State’s request for a “stay” of one of the key steps being taken by the Environmental Protection Agency. A three-judge panel today issued this ruling:

IT IS ORDERED that the motion for stay pending the disposition of the petition for review is DENIED. Petitioners have not met their burden to satisfy the legal standards required to allow a stay pending appeal.

The Fifth Circuit’s order follows on the rejection of the State’s stay request by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on December 10th. Texas went to Fifth Circuit for a second bite at the apple, but has fared no better in New Orleans than in Washington.

Once again, despite the grandstanding by Texas Governor Rick Perry and other elected leaders, the State has utterly failed to prove its case in the courts. This is no surprise, because the Texas – alone among the states – has a totally upside-down vision of what the Clean Air Act requires."

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[Gothmog]

1. Gov Goodhair is an idiot

This challenge is just silly. The SCOTUS ruled a couple of years ago that the EPA had authority to regulate greenhouse gases

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. THAT'S his name of nick?

[PDittie]

3. Molly Ivins gave him that

nickname.

[joshcryer]

4. So wait, the state with the most energy produced by wind doesn't like the clean air act?

:shrug:

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5. Wind revenue is still tiny compared to that from beef and oil

After the UN proposed a "fart tax" on beef a couple of years ago Texas noticeably ratcheted up the denier rhetoric.

They have a lot to lose.

[Javaman]

6. That's my cement head governor.

god, he's just a colossal jackass. It still amazes me how that fucking idiot*, and he is a fucking idiot, got reelected.

(*I had a friend who was a lobbyest at the capital. She had to deal with him on a bi-weekly basis. She stated in no uncertain terms that he was a fucking dimwit. She said that the only difference between him and george w. moron* was that moron* worked better with pictures. perry is that stupid)