Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond and 23 other attorneys general who sued the EPA over the agency’s oil and gas methane rule aren’t alone in legal efforts regarding the rule. They now have a fight on their hands.
Twenty Democratic state attorneys general filed a motion this week in support of the Environmental Protection Agency’s controversial rule. Led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta, the Democrats, the states came out in support of the rule considered the first to regulate emissoins from existing oil and gas production operations.
California’s attorney general was joined by the attorneys general of Connecticut, Colorado, Delaware, Illinois, Massachusetts, Maryland, Maine, Minnesota, North Carolina, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin and Washington, D.C.