Missouri Joins 21 States Fighting Against EPA Rule Changes On Coal/Gas/Oil Power Plants
Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey’s office has joined a 21-state coalition opposing the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rule to impose stringent emissions standards on existing coal, natural gas and oil-fired power plants.
Bailey issued a statement, Wednesday, saying the E-P-A’s action violates the Supreme Court’s decision in the “West Virgina versus E-P-A” case that ruled that Congress has not authorized the E-P-A to remake electricity grids.
Bailey also says the E-P-A’s proposed rule is nothing more than government overreach and an effort by President Biden to unconstitutionally push his radical climate agenda on Missouri power plants.
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“I will always fight to combat government overreach, and that includes pushing back against Joe Biden’s attack on Missouri’s power plants,” said Attorney General Bailey. “The EPA does not have the constitutional authority to circumvent Congress and enact Biden’s radical climate agenda. Missouri’s fighting back.”
In the letter to Biden’s EPA, Attorney General Bailey and the other states assert that the proposal violates the Supreme Court’s decision in West Virginia v. EPA because Congress has not authorized the EPA to remake electricity grids. The agency cannot sidestep Congress to exercise broad regulatory power that would radically transform the nation’s energy grids—and force states to fundamentally shift their energy portfolios away from fossil fuel-fired generation.
The attorneys general note that “States have invested broadly in renewable energy, but the Proposed Rule might make it challenging to ‘get credit’ for those gains. So States the country over will have to realign their energy regulation plans, some several decades out. This rearrangement will cause major and long-term inefficiencies.”
Joining Missouri in sending the letter are Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Read a copy of the letter here: https://ago.mo.gov/docs/default-source/press-releases/ghg-egu-states-comment-letter.pdf?sfvrsn=c9036968_2
Reporter Mike Anthony
