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Bipartisan
Coalition Asks Supreme Court to Halt EPA Power Plan
AUSTIN – Texas Attorney
General Ken Paxton and West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey helped
lead a bipartisan coalition of 29 states and state agencies in asking the U.S.
Supreme Court to immediately halt the Obama Administration’s power plan as
litigation continues in the D.C. Circuit Court. The states argue that the EPA’s
rule fundamentally changes the nation’s energy policy in violation of federal
law.
“The Obama
Administration has exceeded its authority in imposing a plan that will kill
jobs and significantly raise electric bills for all Americans,” Attorney
General Paxton said. “This power grab will force a massive reordering of nearly
every state’s electric grid and result in less-reliable service for all
customers. Such far-reaching actions raise serious concerns about the power of
the federal government.”
Texas and West Virginia
challenged the EPA’s power plan on Oct. 23, 2015, the day it was published.
Those joining Attorney General Paxton and West Virginia Attorney General
Patrick Morrisey in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to immediately halt the
EPA’s unlawful power plan include: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, Colorado,
Florida, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi,
Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South
Dakota, Utah, Wisconsin and Wyoming, along with the Mississippi Department of
Environmental Quality, Mississippi Public Service Commission, North Carolina
Department of Environmental Quality and Oklahoma Department of Environmental
Quality.
To view the stay
application filed with the Supreme Court, please visit:
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/files/epress/Final_States_SCOTUS_Stay_App_-_ACTUAL_(M0116774xCECC6)-c1.pdf.
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