Ricketts, other GOP governors attack Biden climate initiative

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Omaha World Herald

By DON WALTON

Gov. Pete Ricketts joined 14 other governors on Wednesday in submitting a letter to President Joe Biden opposing his executive order pledging to put the United States on the path to protecting at least 30% of its land and 30% of its ocean waters by 2030 to combat climate change.

Biden committed to that conservation goal in January.

"Nowhere in the laws of our nation is the authority delegated by Congress to the president or executive agencies to unilaterally change the policies governing land use in America," the governors wrote.

Pursuing such a plan would violate property rights and damage the economy, they stated.


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1. What bullshit..

The guvrnmunt can take your land from you any ole time it wants to..

For that matter the big energy corps can cut a trench for pipe across

your land whether you want them to or not...Just ask a farmer...

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2. Ricketts belongs in a cell