Oklahoma Attorney General Gentner Drummond is among 24 attorneys general representing states that joined a lawsuit challenging Vermont’s climate Superfund law.
Their lawsuit filed late Thursday of last week challenges the Vermont law enacted last year imposing fines on fossil fuel producers for the greenhouse gas emissions caused over a 30-year period.
The states, along with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute, say the law violates the U.S. Constitution reported West Virginia Public Broadcasting.
West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey led the coalition of states in the lawsuit.
“This shakedown of the companies who built America is unfathomable, unconstitutional and a slap in the face to all of the hardworking men and women who built this country and continue working to keep the lights on,” McCuskey said.
“The Commerce Clause is hardly the only problem with the Climate Superfund Act. Quite the opposite: the Act violates the U.S. Constitution, federal law, and the Vermont Constitution
for a variety of reasons,” stated the lawsuit.
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