Retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor is hosting a reception at the Supreme Court today for various opponents of the proposed Pebble Mine project in Alaska. Politico’s Morning Energy reports that one of the attendees will be the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lisa Jackson. And I have heard that Jackson will be speaking to the group.
Jackson’s conduct is grossly improper. Environmental pressure groups have petitioned the EPA to deny a Clean Water Act permit for the mine before the company developing it has even applied for the permit. Appearing at what is essentially a pep rally for those opposing the mine means that Jackson has already taken sides in the bitter political and legal dispute.
Myron Ebell
Director, Center for Energy and Environment
Competitive Enterprise Institute
And while you’re at it, what is O’Connor doing hosting such an event. And at the Supreme Court no less.
One needn’t expect retired SC justices to remain cloistered forever and utterly uninvolved with life, but this sort of activism is just, well, unseemly.
And the location is absolutely inappropriate. There ARE reception rooms available in DC for lobbyists to rent so they can pick fleas off one another – surely the Court building should be reserved for less odious endedeavours.
Unseemly?
I’ll give you unseemly.
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