Attorney General Gentner Drummond has filed a motion to intervene with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in support of the Trump Administration’s efforts to eliminate radical regulations of carbon emissions.
At issue is a decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding — a cornerstone of the Obama Administration’s extremist climate agenda. In its Final Rule issued earlier this year, the EPA concluded that it lacked statutory authority to establish the Endangerment Finding, which the Obama Administration had used to justify a slew of vehicle emission restrictions under the Clean Air Act.
Drummond and a coalition of 24 attorneys general are seeking to support the agency now that a gaggle of special-interest groups have petitioned the D.C. Circuit to review the Final Rule.
“Thankfully, the Trump Administration is correcting the outrageous overreach that was the hallmark of the Obama-Biden Administration,” said Drummond. “Oklahoma’s energy industry, and that of our nation, should not be hobbled by unnecessary regulations born from a radical climate agenda. A panoply of would-be vehicle emission standards would be disastrous for a robust oil and gas industry, adversely impact our economy, hurt the reliability of our electrical grids and undermine national security.”
Since taking office, Drummond has filed more than 25 legal actions fighting wrongheaded environmental regulations that range from draconian tailpipe emission standards to efforts that have sought to eliminate gas-powered vehicles.
In addition to Oklahoma, states that have joined the motion to intervene include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.