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Court Blocks EPA Effort To Suspend Obama-Era Methane Rule (pbs.org)
Michael Biesecker reports via PBS: A federal appeals court in Washington ruled Monday that the head of the Environmental Protection Agency overstepped his authority in trying to delay implementation of a new rule requiring oil and gas companies to monitor and reduce methane leaks. In a split decision, the three-judge panel from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit ordered the EPA to move forward with the Obama-era requirement that aims to reduce planet-warming emissions from oil and gas operations. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt announced in April that he would delay by 90 days the deadline for oil and gas companies to follow the new rule, so that the agency could reconsider the measure. Last month, Pruitt announced he intended to extend the 90-day stay for two years. In a detailed 31-page ruling, the court disagreed with Pruitt's contention that industry groups had not had sufficient opportunity to comment before the 2016 rule was enacted. The judges also said Pruitt lacked the legal authority to delay the rule from taking effect.
Your confusion is warranted. It's a bullshit political ruling meant to RESIST!, and it will get overruled on appeal after about 6 months, when a new bullshit ruling will be issued by a lower court that will have to wind it's way through the courts as well. Political kangaroo courts are not conducive to democracy. Unfortunately the left is not really about democracy any more.
Every single one of your points is just flat out wrong. You seem to have no real idea how judicial,executive and legislative branches fit together. It's not suppose to work like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?... , even Liberal SNL called it out, but all leftist forget. 1) Factually incorrect, the EPA is an executive branch which follows a chain of command. The declaration of methane being a pollutant is not a law, just like the previous administration "declared" it as a pollutant, the new administration can delay or even un-declare it as a pollutant. 2)It's not law idiot, there is nothing compelling them do anything. 3)The executive branch doesn't tell the legislative branch what to do. If Congress really wanted to , they could disband and defund the entire EPA. 4) AGAIN IT IS NOT LAW idiot. 5)So you are for executive directorships basically. Obama tried that , hence the reasons basically all of his "accomplishments" are coming un-done, because the majority are not laws.