While Henry Waxman, D-Calif pushes through HR (2635???)
At any rate, Waxman's plan is for the government to pay any damages to property if said damage is caused by Global Warming as a result of a failure to reduce Greenhouse Gasses by the US.
Since *ALL* weather is caused by Global Warming (If you listen to the k00ks) then 4,200 + homes and counting will be fully covered by the US Government!!
C'mon, guys! Write your Congreesmen and get them to back Waxman's resolution!
And hope that it's retroactive, at least back to Katrina!
8 (d) COMMON CLAIMS.?When civil actions arising
9 under this Act or any amendment made by this Act are
10 pending in the same court and involve one or more common
11 questions of fact or common claims regarding the same al12 leged Federal agency failure or failures to act, the court
13 may consolidate such claims into a single action for judicial
14 review. When civil actions arising under this Act or any
15 amendment made by this Act are pending in different dis16 tricts and involve one or more common questions of fact
17 or common claims regarding the same alleged Federal agen18 cy failure or failures to act, such actions may be consoli19 dated pursuant to section 1407 of title 28, United States
20 Code.
21 (e) AGGRIEVED PERSONS.?A person shall be consid22 ered aggrieved within the meaning of this Act or any
23 amendment made by this Act for purposes of obtaining ju24 dicial review under chapter 7 of title 5, United States Code,
25 if the person alleges?
1 (1) harm attributable to a Federal agency?s fail2 ure to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions in accord3 ance with the requirements under this Act or any
4 amendment made by this Act, or take other actions
5 required under this Act or any amendment made by
6 this Act; or
7 (2) a Federal agency?s failure to collect and pro8 vide information to the public as required by this Act
9 or any amendment made by this Act.
10 For purposes of this section, the term ??harm?? includes any
11 effect of global warming, currently occurring or at risk of
12 occurring, and the incremental exacerbation of any such ef13 fect or risk that is associated with relatively small incre
14 ments of greenhouse gas emissions, even if the effect or risk
15 is widely shared. An effect or risk associated with global
16 warming is ??attributable?? to a Federal agency?s failure to
17 act as described in paragraph (1) if the failure to act results
18 in larger emissions of greenhouse gases than would have
19 been emitted had the Federal agency followed the require20 ments of this Act or any amendment made by this Act, as
21 any such incremental additional emissions will exacerbate
22 the pace, extent, and risks of global warming.
23 (f) REMEDY.?
24 (1) IN GENERAL.?In addition to the remedies
25 available under chapter 7 of title 5, United States
1 Code, a court may provide the remedies specified in
2 this subsection.
3 (2) PAYMENT.?In any civil action alleging a
4 violation of this Act, if the court finds that an agency
5 has significantly violated this Act in its failure to
6 perform any nondiscretionary act or duty under this
7 Act or any amendment made by this Act, the court
8 may award a payment, payable by the United States
9 Treasury, to be used for a beneficial mitigation
10 project recommended by the plaintiff or to compensate
11 the plaintiff for any impact from global warming suf12 fered by the plaintiff. The total payment for all
13 claims by all plaintiffs in any such action shall not
14 exceed the amount provided in section 1332(b) of title
15 28, United States Code. A court may deny a second
16 payment under this section if the court determines
17 that the plaintiff has filed multiple separate actions
18 that could reasonably have been combined into a sin19 gle action. No payment may be awarded under this
20 paragraph for violations of an agency?s obligation to
21 collect or report information to the public. No court
22 may award any payment under this paragraph in
23 any given year if the cumulative payments awarded
24 by courts under this paragraph in such year are
25 equal to or greater than $1,500,000.
This allows you to sue the Federal Government if you think they aren't doing enough to curb Global Warming.
Good luck, but you might want to wait and see if it actually gets "pushed though" first. Paste the next few lines starting with AGGRIEVED PERSONS and tell me why/how you would sue. You would have to prove a "federal agency's failure to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in accordance with the requirements of this Act." LOL, back to the beginning for the "requirements" (which is what he's *really* after I suspect). Either that of some grandstanding to draw attention to the issue.
Shouldn't be too hard. I think the Post Office, even though it has been privatized, still comes under a Federal Agency. All the license plate on the trucks are Federal Gov't plates.
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