This post is an important follow-up to my previous post, please follow this money: How climate bureaucrats rob taxpayers blindly, I detail how the billions of dollars of taxpayer dollars are used for political nonprofits under the guise of climate activism. [emphasis, links added]
If you haven't read it yet, I highly recommend that you do so, and it sets the stage for understanding this latest shocking judicial intervention.
In a stark example of judicial activism, U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan recently blocked the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) legitimate efforts to snap up $20 billion in hasty grants for climate grants.
The grants were allocated to newly created organizations in the last few days of the Biden administration There is no record in effective environmental management or climate expertise.
Judge Chutkan's ruling is disturbing to say the least…it positioned the judiciary as political gatekeepers, maintaining billions of dollars in taxpayers, who are specifically targeting organizations that are better politically than scientifically credible.
Judicial activism blocks suspicious funds
Judge Chutkan, appointed by President Obama, has been supporting a progressive policy stance.
Her ruling on the EPA illustrates a shocking precedent: The financial surprises of judges actively protecting politically linked climate groups.
result? Billion dollar taxpayer dollars continue to flow unrestricted into organizations that typically lack basic transparency, oversight or real record of climate action.
For example, despite only a few months when the fund was granted, the United Climate Fund received nearly $7 billion. These organizations have hardly existed before becoming a billion-dollar grant recipient.
However, the judge did not find no problem with billions of dollars flowing to untested hands. She is concerned that recovery funds may somehow violate procedural fairness.
The core of the problem: EPA's 2009 hazard discovery
At the heart of this legal battle is the problematic dangerous discovery in 2009, labeled as carbon dioxide (CO2), a fundamental molecule of plant life and a dangerous pollutant.
This decision was proven to be justified for billions of misleading spending.
As many reputable scientists and policy analysts have pointed out, this finding relies on severely flawed climate modeling and exaggerated claims on the CO2 environmental impact.
The Trump-era EPA critically reviewed the discovery, recognizing that reversal would eliminate fragile legal justifications for huge, scientifically unsupported spending.
Overturning dangerous discoveries not only restore scientific integrity, but also allow institutions to recover taxpayer money from these suspicious climate grants.
Real pollution is ignored, fictional threat funded
Ironically, the same regulators justify spending billions of dollars on politically motivated carbon dioxide reduction, while denying the real threat of real pollutants.
As I have previously detailed in my article “The Myth of America's Continuously Elevating Climate Costs”, The claim on the catastrophic cost of climate change has always proven to be exaggerated, and the real pollution issue has received much attention from the policy.
Judicial activism such as chutkan transforms courts into platforms for protecting financial plans hidden in environmentally friendly language…
Judge Chukan's recent ruling reinforces this flawed approach, prioritizing carbon dioxide, beneficial natural gas, over real environmental threats.
Her decision to protect politically favored organizations, undermine real science and ignore actual environmental and economic consequences.
Law: Courts as political weapons
This situation exemplifies the “law”, a strategic use of the legal system to achieve political goals that cannot be successful through a transparent democratic process.
Judicial activism like Chutkan transforms the courts into a platform for protecting financial programs that are invisible in environmentally friendly languages, rather than just places of justice.
Rather than policies that protect taxpayers and promote scientific rooting, Judicial interventions have abused billions of dollars in federal funds, further compensated for wasteful practices and undermined public confidence in climate initiatives.
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