Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond plans to join a lawsuit filed by 15 other Republican attorneys general who sued to challenge the energy efficiency standards of a 1990 housing Act.
Drummond was not among the originally attorneys general who went to federal court challenging a section of the Cranston-Gonzalez Act of 1990, claiming its energy efficient requirements are unconstitutional.
When asked by OK Energy Today why Drummond was absent from the original filing, a spokesman for the Attorney General said Tuesday he would be joining the lawsuit. The suit was filed in the Eastern U.S. District Court of Texas against the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the USDA. The original intent of the act was to help people make down payments on homes and make them more affordable.
The GOP Attorneys General described the requirements as “radical energy efficiency standards.” They represented Alabama, Arkansas, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah and West Virginia, the attorneys general were also joined by the National Association of Home Builders.
