Justice Department sues Hawaii, Michigan, Vermont and New York over state climate actions

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: AP

Updated 9:31 PM EDT, May 1, 2025


DETROIT (AP) — The U.S. Justice Department filed lawsuits against four states this week, claiming their climate actions conflict with federal authority and President Donald Trump’senergy dominance agenda.

The DOJ on Wednesday filed lawsuits against Hawaii and Michigan over their plans for legal action against fossil fuel companies for harms caused by climate change. On Thursday, the DOJ sued New York and Vermont, challenging their climate superfund laws that would force fossil fuel companies to pay into state-based funds based on previous greenhouse gas emissions.

“These burdensome and ideologically motivated laws and lawsuits threaten American energy independence and our country’s economic and national security,” Attorney General Pamela Bondi said in a statement, noting the office hopes to stop “these illegitimate impediments to the production of affordable, reliable energy that Americans deserve.”

The DOJ lawsuits, which legal experts called unprecedented, mark the latest of the Trump administration’s attacks on environmental work and raises concern over states’ abilities to retain the power to take climate action without federal opposition.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/trump-doj-climate-states-policy-lawsuits-a5228e1dd6348f09d2a70f460142531a

[justaprogressive]

1. Rename it to

The INjustice Department

[bucolic_frolic]

2. GOP is the party of states' rights

Nice to know Pammy is setting national policy.

[OldBaldy1701E]

3. I hope they collectively laugh in her face.

That is what is going to turn the tide for us. Stop even giving them attention, other than to laugh and walk away.

They will truly melt down and do something that will justify removing them all if we just start making sure to ridicule every single utterance that spews forth. And, not just when they say it, but every time it comes up. A MAGAt mentions it, laugh out loud. A politician uses it to discuss his own admiration for it and for what is going on, laugh out loud and walk away.

They cannot arrest us all. Time to start making sure they see millions doing this. Millions.

Otherwise, we might as well start wearing Trump sneakers.

[BumRushDaShow]

4. The only problem is

45's people control the "spigots" of funding that get electronically transferred to states and they have to keep going to court to make them turn those spigots back on.

[OldBaldy1701E]

5. I still say match each shortcoming with a return shortcoming.

They won't send the state that money? The state does not send the same amount either. They can use it to help their own and see how long the federal government wants to play this game.Especially if California decides to do this.

Hard to come back from losing the fifth biggest economy on the planet. Even harder to declare war on it when it is within your own country.

[PortTack]

6. Maine governor Janet Mills I believe has already said they would stop sending money to the feds

Not sure of all the details. I think she’s talking to employers there in Maine about it.

[OldBaldy1701E]

7. I like her thought process.

Tit for tat. Make him own this. Make him go insane with the fact that she is not kissing his ass and is countering him in every way.

Make him do something that will finally create enough disturbance to wake some sheeple up!