As reported in today’s New York Times, the U.S. Supreme Court in a 5-4 ruling decided against defendants George W. Bush Administration and the Environmental Protection Agency’s that they lack authority to enforce Congress’s Clean Air Act (Justices Rule Against Bush Administration on Emissions).

The article quotes Democratic Senator John Kerry of Massachusetts, as saying “It ia an[sic] historic moment when the Supreme Court has to step in to protect the environment from the Bush administration.”

Ruling against the majority was Justice Sam Alito, appointed to the High Court by Bush from the Third Circuit Court of Appeals in Philadelphia.

Alito occupied a seat on the 3rd Circuit with another Bush appointee, Michael Chertoff, whom Resident Bush promoted as Secretary to the Homeland Security Department (HSD).

HSD Sec. Chertoff presided over the New Orleans, La., Katrina flood disaster and, as overseer of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the two catastrophic floods of 2005 followed within months of disastrous flood of 2006 in Easton, Pennsylvania, in the U.S. Congressional District 15 of Republican Congressman Charles Dent.

Dent is also a member of the House of Representatives’ HSD Committee and a prosecutor of his constituents of the “Dent Nine.”

The prosecution stemmed from a visit of the “Dent Nine” to his Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, office, to obtain his support of fellow Congressional colleague, Democrat John Murtha, to begin immediately withdrawing troops from the inferno of the Iraqi Civil War.

It comes as no surprise that Pennsylvania was not one of plaintiff states suing the Bush Administration and the EPA.

Indeed, Bush, EPA, Pennsylvania, and the state’s Department of Environmental Protection persist in flouting federal and state statutes and local municipal ordinances by their failure to protect the environment by ignoring federal laws like the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA).

In Pennsylvnaia, these violators of the environment have usurped the powers of CERCLA vested in the EPA with the specious state-legislated and Governor-signed BAT, or Brownfield Action Team that through non-profits like Donna Taggard Associates, the Lehigh Valley Economic Development Corporation (LVEDC), Lehigh Valley Industrial Parks (LVIP), Lehigh Valley Partnership (LVP0, Greater Lehigh Valley Chamber of Commerce, Musikfest, ArtsQuest, SteelStax, etc., etc., etc., ad nausea.