To achieve ‘Green New Socialism’ we would have to trash all existing environmental laws

From Mark Perry.

"As John Hinderaker commented in a post (“The Trouble with Solar“) on the Powerline Blog “If the Democrats are serious about the Green New Socialism, they will have to trash pretty much all existing environmental laws,” and then points to these comments from Myron Ebell on the Competitive Enterprise Institute blog:

Achieving the Green New Deal’s objectives in ten years—or in 20 or 40—is clearly impossible. Even if hundreds of thousands of windmills, tens of millions of solar panels, and hundreds of millions of car batteries could be fabricated, the grid cannot operate on 100% intermittent and variable power—or even 50%.
One aspect of covering the landscape with hundreds of thousands of square miles of windmills and solar panels is that to do so would require suspending federal, state, and local environmental statutes, permitting procedures, and land use plans. Forget about the Endangered Species Act’s habitat protections and prohibitions on killing endangered birds and bats. The Clean Water Act’s wetlands protections will have to be overlooked. Environmental impact statements that now take years to prepare, years to move through the permitting process, and more years to litigate, are out the window. Wind and solar projects will have to be permitted in days.

Then John finishes with a variation of Perry’s Principle (“Leftists don’t value people [or the environment] as much as they value power over people.“):

But leftists don’t care about the environment any more than they care about the economy. Their sole goal is the power to bully the rest of us. Everything else is a fraud."