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posted by martyb on Monday December 17 2018, @06:00AM   Printer-friendly
from the Put-that-in-your-pipe[line]-and-smoke-it dept.

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-12-12/judge-halts-keystone-xl-pipeline-citing-complete-disregard-climate

In his ruling, Judge Brian Morris said “the Trump administration completely disregarded the climate effects of building the Keystone pipeline,” according to Vermont law professor Pat Parenteau.

“The Trump administration dismissed, with barely a paragraph in the decision document they issued, the whole idea that the pipeline would be contributing to climate change and the judge said that's not good enough,” Parenteau explains. “[He said], ‘You really do have to take into account the growing body of science that we all know and you have to explain why it makes sense, given that, to authorize yet another major piece of fossil fuel infrastructure that will take 40 years to pay off.’”

Morris is a former justice on the Montana Supreme Court and is considered a “very moderate judge,” Parenteau adds. “He’s hardly a radical environmentalist. There are some judges on the federal bench who are more pro-environment ..., but Judge Morris isn’t in that same category.”


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  • (Score: 2, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @07:22PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 17 2018, @07:22PM (#775503)

    isn't a judge supposed to judge according to laws?

    Yup. That also means a judge can require anyone to make their case based on those laws, so the judge can actually judge merits of the case. If you try to circumvent any law by pretending it doesn't exist, a judge is perfectly qualified to send you back home to do your homework properly.

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