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   From: lawless@montana.gov   
      
   pothead  wrote in   
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   > Buy a rope for this activist judge.  A strong one.   
      
   Chalk up one more for climate hysteria!   
      
   A Montana district court under Judge Kathy Seeley has ruled in favor of a   
   group of green Zoomers, backed by fearmongering legal outfit Our   
   Children’s Trust, who sued the state over its regulatory policy of not   
   using carbon emissions as a standard when permitting new fossil fuel   
   projects.   
      
   In other words, the war on domestic energy continues apace, with judges   
   now getting in on the action.   
      
   Look: Choking off American energy production by imposing impossible-to-   
   meet emissions standards is a recipe for disaster.   
      
   It will do nothing to slow warming, as the world’s leading polluters (like   
   China) will be utterly unaffected by it.   
      
   It will do massive economic harm to average Americans, by driving up   
   energy prices.   
      
   President Biden’s federal war on production proves that: Energy prices   
   have skyrocketed under him, and his fossil-fuel clampdown is a huge   
   contributor.   
      
   Plus, beyond the practical considerations here, it’s absurd for a judge to   
   find a state-constitutional right to be protected from the warming that   
   results from global carbon emissions.   
      
   But warming is a slow-motion risk, whereas carbon drives currently   
   everything in the modern economy: refrigeration, clean water, farming.   
      
   No one needs to be protected from emissions.   
      
   They will, however, need lots of protection if green nuts succeed in their   
   decarbonization schemes and all the goods and services we count on go dark   
   one by one.   
      
   The Montana attorney general’s office was dead right to call the judgment   
   a “taxpayer-funded publicity stunt” — and to plan an appeal.   
      
   Indeed, the judge herself is a true believer, apparently citing pie-in-   
   the-sky claims that Montana can go 80% renewable in seven years as a   
   factor in her judgment.   
      
   Luckily, the decision is a low-level state one, limited in scope and   
   nearly certain to be reversed.   
      
   Certainly, Montana’s GOP-dominated Legislature is unlikely to sign on to   
   Seeley’s crusade.   
      
   This is the first Our Children’s Trust case that’s ever reached trial.   
      
   It should also be the last.   
      
   https://nypost.com/2023/08/15/why-the-montana-climate-change-lawsuit-   
   ruling-is-total-bunk/   
      
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