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President Donald Trump last night signed an Executive Order on Protecting American Energy From State Overreach.

The purpose of the Order is to unleash American energy, "especially through the removal of all illegitimate impediments to the identification, development, siting, production, investment in, or use of domestic energy resources — particularly oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, geothermal, biofuel, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources."

The Order further highlights that many States have enacted, or are in the process of enacting, "burdensome and ideologically motivated “climate change” or energy policies that threaten American energy dominance and our economic and national security" much like Connecticut -- who can forget the "Green Monster"?

Trump argues that state "climate change" laws and policies "weaken national security and devastate Americans by driving up energy costs for families coast-to-coast, despite some of these families not living or voting in States with these crippling policies."

Trump has directed AG Pam Bondi to identify state laws purporting to address “climate change” or involving “environmental, social, and governance” initiatives, “environmental justice,” carbon or “greenhouse gas” emissions, and funds to collect carbon penalties or carbon taxes, and take all appropriate action to stop the enforcement of such laws.

Connecticut AG William Tong fumed over the move, and released a rather unhinged statement, about how Trump is "seeking to force the revival of dirty and dangerous energy generation and to block states from lawful efforts to combat the climate crisis."

“This is a war on our environment, waged by a reckless President on behalf of his fossil fuel industry backers who do not care if our air and water are toxic so long as they make money. Decades of scientific consensus prove that the climate threat is real and that we have a limited window now to mitigate its worst harms.  Washington has failed for decades to address the climate crisis, and like just about everything else right now, it has fallen on states to protect our families. Donald Trump is happy to do Big Oil’s bidding, but I’m not about to let him stop the sovereign state of Connecticut from doing what is necessary to address this existential threat. The Department of Justice needs to do its job and enforce our nation’s environmental laws, not waste time ‘investigating’ undeniably constitutional state laws,” said AG Tong, ignoring the fact that there is no climate emergency.

Tong further addressed Trump’s plan to revive coal power plants which he believes are "old-fashioned, dirty and dangerous."

“Nothing in this order would save Connecticut families one cent on our energy bills. The reality is, burning coal is expensive and dirty, and it’s been phased out because it just doesn’t make any sense. Like his idiotic trade war, Trump is wasting our money again to serve his ideological whims. The impact of his policies will undoubtably harm people’s health and the environment,” said AG Tong.

How much longer before the lawfare starts?

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