Pam Bondi slammed the door shut on this awful blue state scheme

The Left uses the legal system to achieve its policy goals. 

It’s coming to a screeching halt. 

And Pam Bondi slammed the door shut on this awful blue state scheme. 

Justice Department moves to stop lawfare against fossil fuel companies 

Democrats know they can’t get their most ambitious climate change legislation passed through Congress. 

They’ve turned to the courts to get their policy preferences through the back door. 

One of their top priorities is eliminating the use of fossil fuels. 

Blue states are trying to bankrupt energy companies with frivolous lawsuits. 

Michigan and Hawaii filed baseless lawsuits against fossil fuel companies to make them pay for the alleged damage caused by climate change based on an unscientific formula. 

New York and Vermont passed climate superfund laws that would require utilities and fossil fuel companies to fork over billions of dollars every year for greenhouse gas emissions in the state. 

The Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the four blue states for their climate change lawfare. 

President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the federal government to take action against state laws that hamper domestic energy production. 

“These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security,” Attorney General Pam Bondi said. “The Department of Justice is working to ‘Unleash American Energy’ by stopping these illegitimate impediments to the production of affordable, reliable energy that Americans deserve.”

Blue states try to set the country’s energy policy 

The climate change lawsuits and superfund laws are a back door attempt to set the energy policy for the rest of the country. 

Justice Department attorneys argued this was unconstitutional, violated the Clean Air Act, and encroached on the federal government’s power. 

“These state laws assess penalties on businesses for global activities that Congress has not authorized states to regulate,” the Justice Department stated. 

Hawaii and New York were accused of taking unconstitutional actions with their superfund laws against energy companies. 

New York wants energy companies to pay more than $75 billion to the state for greenhouse gas emissions. 

“When states seek to regulate energy beyond their constitutional or statutory authority, they harm the country’s ability to produce energy and they aid our adversaries,” acting Assistant Attorney General Adam Gustafson stated. “The Department’s filings seek to protect Americans from unlawful state overreach that would threaten energy independence critical to the well-being and security of all Americans.”

Federal judges in the lawsuits are being asked to strike down all four laws as unconstitutional. 

The Trump administration needs to stop this overreach dead in its tracks. 

Americans face higher prices and fewer choices for energy as these laws put the squeeze on energy companies. 

Victory by these four blue states would open the door to every Democrat-controlled state trying to make sweeping climate change policy through the justice system. 

The country would be in chaos with a piecemeal energy policy created by dozens of states. 

Democrats know that they can never pass these policies through any legislature, so they’re turning to the courtroom to make them happen.