The Green Mountain State experienced some bad flooding during July and state politicos obviously rode the coattails of resident's frustrations with the disaster that lingered months later to seek to enact a new law modeled after the EPA"s Superfund program.
According to NBC News, the amount of bad storms that occurred in the state were caused by climate change will be calculated by the state's treasurer based on how much metric tons of carbon dioxide fossil fuel companies emitted from 1995 to 2024. The proposal sounds reasonable enough, right? Since climate change is presumed to be caused resulting from fossil fuel emissions, then companies that extract and produce oil and gas products should compensate the state for the cleanup if companies are unable or unwilling to.
However, the American Petroleum Institute has responded to press inquiries about Vermont's proposal arguing that the new law would not only, likely, be unconstitutional but would impose massive costs due to the retroactive nature of the legislation since the activities the group's members were engaged in are legal and done to provide products to sell to state residents.
If it passes, hopefully, Vermont's new law will be struck down in court and it is another example of how climate change is used as justification to confiscate people's wealth. The politicos of Vermont want all of the benefits of fossil fuels but they hate the companies involved in giving it to them. If this new law is modeled after the EPA's superfund program then Vermont state bureaucrats will likely be the ones in charge and that can get messy or very difficult just like how it is dealing with the EPA. Just as residents of East Palestine, Ohio.
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