by James Murphy
The New American

This week, Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan warned that portions of the United States could be “swallowed by the ocean” in the next generation. Kagan made the remark in her dissent on the West Virginia v. EPA decision, which read more like a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change document than a reasoned dissent based on the Constitution.

“If the current rate of emissions continues, children born this year could live to see parts of the Eastern seaboard swallowed by the ocean,” the associate justice, an Obama nominee confirmed in 2010, noted.

On Thursday, the Supreme Court handed down its decision in West Virginia v. EPA. A 6-3 majority ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency did not possess broad constitutional power to make greenhouse gas emissions regulations without specific congressional approval.

“Today, the Court strips the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of the power Congress gave it to respond to ‘the most pressing environmental challenge of our time,’” Kagan lamented…

[Steve Milloy, via Twitter]:

Nutty Kagan dissent in WV v. EPA calls climate the “greatest environmental challenge of our time.” 🙄

Is that a legal holding?

If true, why doesn’t Congress give EPA authority to act?

Reality: Climate is a hoax that many in Congress have been reluctant to fall for.

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