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GAO Files Amicus Showing Endangerment Finding was Predetermined
Life Imitates Art in EPA’s ‘Finding About Nothing’; plus, SCOTUS said no more futile, stupid gestures Government Accountability & Oversight and Protect the Public’s Trust have filed a Motion for Leave to File as Amicus Curiae in the litigation challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 Endangerment Finding claiming that greenhouse gases, particularly from mobile sources, endanger public health and welfare.…
Endangered Endangerment
Following up on this post, and this, and seeing that “EPA Sends GHG Endangerment Finding and Vehicle Rule to OMB,” GAO notes the following—consisting of three pages of typed timeline followed by relevant images of correspondence, including from a 5% randomly sampled Vaughn index (privilege log) in the CEI “Richard Windsor” FOIA case. These threads-to-pull serve as a reminder that…
THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER: GAO Drops Bunker Buster on GHG Standards
In pursuit of the shocking yet not surprising revelations of which GAO readers are aware (see here, here, here), GAO has filed comments on the EPA’S proposed repeal of greenhouse gas emission standards for fossil-fuel fired electricity generation. In short, Boom. You should read them, here.