A new executive order called “Protecting U.S. energy from national excessive energy” directs U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi to “determine all state and local laws…bearing burdens are …being burdens that are not restricted by federal law or other unrestricted identification, development, development, site selection, production or use of domestic energy within 60 days. [emphasis, links added]
EO specifically mentioned the climate “ransomware laws” in California, New York and Vermont, especially against legal obstacles to hydrocarbon producers (coal, gas and oil), guiding AG Bondi to recommend stopping the “presidential or legislative action” required for law enforcement.
Such actions that the White House has proposed in the first 100 days of the administration include closing the climate sector, halting off offshore wind leases, cutting green energy funding and imposing tariffs on renewable energy equipment imported from China.
Laws and regulations and monetary barriers imposed on hydrocarbon energy producers are again expensive, and in turn convey these economic burdens to consumers.
Last May, Vermont passed a climate superfund bill that holds “fossil fuel extractors” or “crude oil refineries” responsible for “costs due to climate change” and seeks millions of dollars in damages, greenhouse gas emissions generated from 1995 to 2024.
The premise of the law is that the state's 2023 floods were caused by climate change caused by oil company emissions, conveniently overlooking the fact that the 1927 Vermont flood (the worst flood in the state's history) occurred when global CO2 emissions were only 10% of current levels.
New York contributed to Vermont’s role model with its Climate Change Superfund Act last December, which would impose huge taxes on fossil fuel producers and attempted to estimate $3 billion a year starting in 2028.
Maryland has joined Vermont and New York, blaming Fossil Energy for “making polluters pay” in this month’s “Emergency Demand for Responding to Extreme Weather Acts”, the same measure strives to seek damage to monetary damage to its citizens, industries and economies in California and Massachusetts.
While Oregon voters this month rejected a similarly proposed Superfund statute, which includes more than twenty, including California, Washington and 10 Northeast states, have passed cap and trade laws that require companies to buy CO2 on the market and then deliver it to the state based on their emission levels.
Fortunately, this legislative overact finally meets legal suppression by environmental realists and industries that green fanatics are trying to destroy.
Last February, a coalition of 22 state attorney generals and several industry associations filed lawsuits responsible for the implementation and enforcement of their Super Fund Act, the official was based on constitutional grounds that neither Congress nor any state could impose criminal liability for “post-fact law” that had not been restricted in the past.
Among other allegations, states believe that New York's attempt to interfere with the economic interests of sister states violates the supremacy of the Constitution and violates “equal sovereignty.”
And, because New York is not the location of most companies targeted by the bill, but imports 85% of energy demand from elsewhere, the plaintiff also accused its law of violating commercial and foreign business terms “by discriminating against out-of-state energy producers and imposing excessive penalties while benefiting local New York.”
Although some of these lawsuits have been defeated, most are still ongoing or appealing, so far no one has paid money for damages to the fuel company.
As swing Virginia remains subject to the 2020 law that requires 100% conversion to renewable energy by 2050, it can be expected that the huge NSW AI data centers will significantly increase state power demand, allowing a harsh reality check on punitive, unreliable green energy capacity.
Plus this real environmental consideration; [for example, the Trump admin] A massive Long Island wind farm called Empire 1 was stopped last week, claiming that the Biden White House would have permitted “rush” without proper research.
The project raised criticism from Nassau County officials who believe marine life and local fishing will be damaged and the island will be in trouble with power lines running through dense residential areas.
The executive order issued by President Trump on his first day of his return to office sums up this ultimate reality:
“When states target out-of-state energy producers by imposing major obstacles to interstate and international trade, U.S. energy suffers, while equality in every country encompassed by the Constitution is undermined.”
“Similarly, when countries conduct retroactive fines on energy producers or seek to control energy development, site selection, or production activities on federal lands, U.S. energy fines.”
It continues: “These state laws and policies have weakened our national security and, while some of these families have not lived or voted, in states with these serious policies, some of these families have weakened our national security and destroyed Americans.”
In short, we all do this when U.S. energy is overregulated and penalized.
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