Trump Admin Looks To Block PRM Lawsuit Against Oils Companies

It’d be fun of the Trump DOJ mentioned in open court that the state of the People’s Republik Of Minnesota was still using lots and lots of fossil fuels for their operations, and that Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat, himself uses lots of fossil fuels for his SUVs and airplane flights

Trump administration moves to block Minnesota climate change lawsuit against oil companies

President Donald Trump’s administration moved Monday to block a lawsuit Minnesota officials filed almost six years ago alleging oil companies and a petroleum trade group deceived state residents about climate change.

The U.S. Department of Justice, the administration’s law enforcement arm, filed an action in federal court in Minneapolis arguing that the federal government has the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, not states, and that Minnesota officials are trying to improperly impose their policy preferences on the rest of the country.

“The Constitution does not tolerate such a conflict,” Justice Department attorneys argued in the filing. “Nor does it allow Minnesota to national its regulatory powers.”

Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, a Democrat, filed a lawsuit in state court in June 2020 against ExxonMobil, Koch Industries, the American Petroleum Institute and refinery company Flint Hills Resources, a Koch subsidiary, accusing them of consumer fraud and deceptive trade practices. At least 15 other states brought similar lawsuits, including Massachusetts, New York and Rhode Island.

They filed the suit 6 years ago, so, the PRM and Ellison have had plenty of time to practice what they preach and stop using fossil fuels which they consider Evil. Yet, they haven’t. They have over 475 aviation facilities, from massive international airports to small public and private to heliports to seaplane ports, and, yet, they are all operating. And more opened in the last 6 years. Very strange.