The American = Spectator : AmSpecBlog : Washington State's Climate Exec Order = Challenged

Washington=20 State's Climate Exec Order Challenged

By Paul Chesser on 7.21.10 @ 2:05PM

Today the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Constitutional Law Center = announced=20 they would, on behalf of Washington State taxpayers, sue = Democrat Gov.=20 Christine Gregoire because last year she issued=20 an executive order implementing climate change measures that the=20 Democrat-run state legislature had rejected.

=93We believe Gov. Gregoire=92s climate change executive = order is an=20 unconstitutional order,=94 said Michael Reitz, director of the = Evergreen Freedom=20 Foundation=92s Constitutional Law Center, who represents the taxpayers = in this=20 case. =93Gov. Gregoire violated the doctrine of separation of powers = by=20 snatching a failed bill out of the legislative process and issuing it = in the=20 form of an executive order. If the governor wants to pass laws, = she=92s in the=20 wrong branch of government.=94

Indeed, Gregoire is such an Unconstitutionalist (as a former attorney = general, she should know better) that she=20 admitted openly last year she wanted to circumvent Washingtonians' = elected=20 representatives, telling the Los Angeles Times, "I wanted=20 cap-and-trade. I didn't get it."

Used to using threats = to get what=20 she wants, she instead used the hissy fit measure at her disposal = and forced=20 the state Department of Ecology to redirect hundreds of thousands -- if = not=20 millions -- of dollars from budget-authorized air quality programs to = her global=20 warming agenda. Among her directives were=20 to join the wasteful Western=20 Climate Initiative, force private business to report their = emissions, and=20 develop a low-carbon fuel standard. Kind of like her own, self-created = EPA=20 endangerment finding.

She's about as far out in left field as she can get, as the = Washington Policy=20 Center environmental director Todd Myers explaine= d.=20 "Her party controls both chambers, ... and they still wouldn=92t pass = it," he=20 said. "When you=92re pushing policy over the wishes of people in your = own party, I=20 think that=92s very dangerous.=94 Even more so when you consider her=20 approval ratings, although this is not an election year for her. =

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Global Warming, = Environmentalism, Climate = Change

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