Pruitt Files Challenge to EPA Carbon Rule
Pruitt files quick challenge to EPA carbon ruleBy Paul Monies
Oklahoma’s attorney general filed a quick legal challenge Friday to the Obama administration’s Clean Power Plan to reduce greenhouse gases from power plants.
The Environmental Protection Agency published the final rule Friday in the Federal Register, and Attorney General Scott Pruitt said his office immediately filed a lawsuit in the federal appeals court for the District of Columbia.
Pruitt called the plan unlawful and said it threatens the reliability and affordability of power generation across the nation.
“It’s an attempt by the administration to transfer decision-making on the fuels used to generate power from state policy makers to bureaucrats at the EPA,” Pruitt said in a statement. “The results will be financially harmful for states, and consumers ultimately will pay the price through much-higher utility rates and a less reliable power supply.”