Harvard Law Professor: #EPA Climate Rule Is #Unconstitutional

MICHAEL BASTASCH

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The Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants is unconstitutional because it violates the Tenth Amendment and the Fifth Amendment, according to a noted liberal Harvard law professor.

“In short, coal has been a bedrock component of our economy and energy policy for decades,” writes constitutional law professor Laurence Tribe. “The [EPA's rule] demonstrates the risk of allowing an unaccountable administrative agency to ‘make’ law and attempt to impose the burden of global climate change on an unlucky and unfortunate few.”

“EPA’s singling out of a mere handful of emitters and limiting (or curtailing) their property is exactly the type of overreaching the Fifth Amendment seeks to prevent,”Tribe, who is on retainerhttp://dailycaller.com/2014/12/05/harvard-law-professor-epa-climate-rule-is-unconstitutional/?advD=1248,1628647#mnetint for the coal company Peabody Energy, wrote in his comments to the EPA.

  

Ranchers, farmers fear eco-terrorists after EPA releases private info - #privacy, #EPa, #NSA,

By Perry Chiaramonte

Published January 17, 2014

FoxNews.com

The Environmental Protection Agency has told farmers and ranchers it is sorry for handing private information about them over to environmental groups, but agriculture advocates who fear attacks from eco-terrorists say it's like closing the barn door after the horses escaped.

In response to Freedom of Information Requests, the federal agency released information on up to 100,000 agriculture industry workers, including their home address and phone numbers, GPS coordinates and even personal medical histories. The agency later acknowledged much of the information should never have been provided, and even asked the recipients to give it back.

“If some set to create mischief at these locations, basically the government gave them a road map”

- Mace Thornton, American Farm Bureau Federation

“If someone is setting out to create mischief at these locations, basically the government gave them a road map,” Mace Thornton, spokesman for the American Farm Bureau Federation, which is participating in a joint lawsuit against the EPA, told FoxNews.com. “It is very clearly an unjustified intrusion into citizens’ private lives by the government. And it is a betrayal of trust.”

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