The Environmental Protection Agency is at it again. This time they’ve targeted cargo vessels and cruise lines in Alaska by mandating that they use low-sulfur-fuel. This requirement would increase cost by eight percent, which of course will be passed onto the consumer.And where does the EPA get the authority to impose this mandate? Apparently from a treaty amendment that was never approved by the Senate.
The treaty amendment at issue is a 2010 agreement under the International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution from Ships, or MARPOL. The United States has signed onto MARPOL, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has accepted the 2010 amendment.
Domestic enforcement of the amendment is not permitted without ratification by two-thirds of the U.S. Senate, Assistant Alaska Attorney General Seth Beausang said. He said the EPA also erred by failing to conduct an environmental analysis.
"The only thing they relied on was the treaty amendment in issuing the regulations," he told Reuters, adding that Alaska was not coordinating its effort to overturn the regulations with any other state.
The lawsuit names as defendants the EPA and its director, Lisa Jackson, the Department of Homeland Security and Secretary Janet Napolitano, the Coast Guard and its commandant, Admiral Robert Papp, and Clinton.
The Obama administration has to be the most lawless in American history. They just do whatever they want to do, and the consequences are damned. These totalitarians don’t give a shit about the American people. They have a power and control agenda that is contrary to our founding principles, and they won’t stop until we’re all enslaved to their bureaucratic machine.
I believe impeachment proceedings are warranted. The only thing saving Obama’s ass is this coming election. If he wins in November, the House of Representatives has a strong case for his ouster.
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