Media Push Conservative Narrative By Omitting Court Context Of Climate Change Regulat

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Media Push Conservative Narrative By Omitting Court Context Of Climate Change Regulations

The bigger story, why did Obama wait so long to order the EPA to enforce the law??

Media outlets are pushing the conservative narrative that the Obama administration will "bypass Congress" with a new plan to reduce carbon emissions while ignoring key context: the 2007 Supreme Court decision that explicitly gave the executive branch the power to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act and the endangerment finding that made the EPA "statutorily obligated" to do so.

President Obama announced the details of his new plan to deal with the challenge of climate change in a June 25 speech at Georgetown University. Details of the White House plan, which will extend regulation on carbon emissions to existing power plants, were released on the morning of June 25.

Advance coverage of Obama's climate speech and plan by Fox News, Politico, The Associated Press, NBC News, and The Hill echoes past criticism from conservative media of Obama's efforts to combat climate change by focusing on the fact that the efforts do not need to be approved by Congress.

You expect this idiocy from Fox, but come on people, get it together.

 

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Media Matters opinion? I thought they spent all their time monitoring (only) rconservative speech. I guess they branched out. Funny how lefties rely on supreme court decisions when they like the outcome. The freaking Country is going to hell under half a dozen scandals, a potential war in Syria, a never ending war in Afghanistan, a staggering unemployment rate, no sign of an economic upturn and the president wants to hurt Americans even more with draconian restrictions on carbon emissions. Meanwhile the freaking hypocrite has been the biggest user (abuser) of fossil fuel use with a non-stop international apology tour and don't forget the limousines.