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From: barry levine
Date: Mon, Jun 29, 2015 at 6:09 PM
Subject: re: Supreme Court Blocks Obama’s Limits on Power Plants
To: "letters@nytimes.com"
to the Editor:
For 200 yrs, the illusion of cheap coal has been sustained by externalizing most of its costs. The public has borne the burden of sickness, death and environmental degradation while mine owners have pocketed the profits. Until now, that fiction has been tacit. Only now with the Supreme Court's ruling in Michigan v EPA has this lie become the Law of the Land.
it is long established since Marbury v. Madison that the Law means what the SCOTUS says it means. But nothing in the Clean Air Act speaks of the cost competitiveness of coal-fired power generation. It is the Court's pure, unsupported invention that coal mine operators have a right to profits while foisting their costs onto the public's lungs, the public's wallets, and the public's children.
it is long established since Marbury v. Madison that the Law means what the SCOTUS says it means. But nothing in the Clean Air Act speaks of the cost competitiveness of coal-fired power generation. It is the Court's pure, unsupported invention that coal mine operators have a right to profits while foisting their costs onto the public's lungs, the public's wallets, and the public's children.
Barry Haskell Levine
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/30/us/supreme-court-blocks-obamas-limits-on-power-plants.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0
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