The Left’s ‘Sue-Till-Green’ Strategy Comes to Pennsylvania
Posted on AllSides May 21st, 2024
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OPINION
When climate activists use the term “environmental justice,” they mean it literally. Rather than legislating and passing laws (as is customary in a constitutional republic), they’ve turned to the courts to fight their quixotic battles.
Pennsylvania is no stranger to litigating climate-related policies.
The Keystone State’s history with the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), for example, has been nothing but litigious. The legal battle began when Governor Tom Wolf unconstitutionally entered Pennsylvania into the multistate compact. A Commonwealth Court ruled that Wolf’s executive order constituted an illegal tax, but Wolf’s successor,...
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