GO AWAY: People’s Republic of Boulder Wants To Run Your Energy Policy.

At stake before SCOTUS is whether that town gets to set energy policy for the rest of America. That’s the real question in Suncor Energy Inc. v. County Commissioners of Boulder County, no matter how carefully supporters dress it up.

In 2018, the City of Boulder, Boulder County, and San Miguel County sued in Colorado state court arguing energy companies’ products fueled climate change and that the companies should cover whatever local costs these opportunistic politicians wanted.

Translation: Sell a legal product to willing customers around the world, and a county in Colorado can bill you for the weather.

Boulder insists it isn’t trying to regulate anyone’s emissions. One of its own lawyers forgot the script. David Bookbinder, who helped file the case for Boulder told a Federalist Society panel that tort liability is “an indirect carbon tax” and the lawsuit is “somewhat of a convoluted way to achieve the goals of a carbon tax.”

Congress has refused to pass a carbon tax for decades because voters won’t stand for one. So the activists went shopping for a courtroom instead.

It would be insane to allow the country’s most activist communities hold the rest of the nation hostage.