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Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond isn’t finished taking on the EPA.
The same week he announced his candidacy for Governor, he and 22 other state attorneys general filed a petition for review in the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to sue the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for adopting a final rule to unlawfully tax methane.
“This unlawful and egregious tax is a last-ditch effort by the Biden Administration to once again attack our oil and gas industry,” Drummond said. “We must put an end to these antics once and for all.”
Last year, the EPA proposed a plan to implement a new methane tax as part of the Inflation Reduction Act. The tax would compel energy producers to pay a penalty for oil and gas facilities that produce certain levels of methane.
Drummond argued in the petition filed this week that the rule exceeds the EPA’s statutory authority and that it’s an unlawful abuse of discretion.
In addition to Oklahoma, states joining the filing were Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, Virginia and Wyoming,
Read the filing.