Judicial rulings against New York\u2019s bogus Climate Superfund law marks yet another well-deserved blow to politicians\u2019 global-warming posturing.<\/p>\n
The 2024 legislation sought<\/a> to swipe a whopping $75 billion from fossil-fuel companies it deemed responsible for more than a billion tons of greenhouse-gas emission since 2000.<\/p>\n Or as Robert S. Smith, a former top state judge, put it, lawmakers \u201cneeded some money \u2014 $75 billion, to be exact \u2014 for \u2018comprehensive adaptation to the effects of climate change in New York\u2019\u201d and thought they had \u201ca good way\u201d to get it: Just take it.<\/p>\n That was patently unconstitutional for numerous reasons, starting with the fact that the federal government oversees environmental regulation under the Clean Air Act, not states.<\/p>\n And the public would\u2019ve paid in the end, as those companies passed the new costs<\/a> on to consumers. <\/p>\n But passing the Superfund law let Democratic lawmakers pander<\/a> to climate extremists by slapping Big Bad Oil, so they saw it as a win-win.<\/p>\n \t\t\tMore From\t\t\t\t\t\t\tPost Editorial Board<\/p>\n Note that Judge P. Kevin Castel struck down that law just days after another federal jurist, Obama appointee Brenda Sannes, declared the \u201cunusual and sweeping statute\u201d wholly unenforceable.<\/p>\n Their rulings add to climate crazies\u2019 mounting courtroom losses: In 2021, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals struck down New York City\u2019s wild bid<\/a> to collect damages for climate change.<\/p>\n And on Tuesday, a federal judge dismissed still another nutty lawsuit, filed by Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel, claiming oil companies created a cartel that slowed the development of renewable energy.<\/p>\n How fitting that such crazy laws, and lawsuits, grow out of a movement that\u2019s itself based on insanity<\/a>: the idea, essentially, that man-made global warming will destroy the world in just a few years unless we trash the economy and live like cavemen.<\/p>\n In New York, that\u2019s produced a climate agenda that\u2019s done nothing to mitigate climate change but only driven energy costs<\/a> through the roof and boosted the chances of power outages.<\/p>\n It\u2019s brought plenty of bad policy at the federal level, too, including billions burned on green giveaways.<\/p>\n