Kentucky AG Coleman leads effort to repeal EPA regulation

HENDERSON, Ky. (WEHT) – Attorney General Russell Coleman announced that Kentucky and West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey are co-leading a 26-state coalition to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) legal underpinning for some policies of the last decades, including the Green New Deal, the EPA’s electric vehicle mandates, and the Clean Power Plan.

Officials said in a comment letter to the Trump Administration’s EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, the attorneys general supported the reversal of the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding under the Clean Air Act.

According to Coleman, in 2009, the Obama Administration relied on allegedly “bad” science and allegedly “untested” legal theories to rule that carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change and was a danger to public health.

“Finalizing this proposed action is an important step to freeing American industry from burdensome, unlawful regulations and restoring the Clean Air Act’s proper, congressionally intended structure,” the attorneys general stated in their submission.

The attorneys general argued in the comment letter that the Obama Administration’s finding was both unlawful and scientifically unproven. Officials said the Trump Administration’s EPA has formally begun the regulatory process to repeal the Endangerment Finding.

“The nonsensical green agenda has gone on long enough. For 15 years, this one unlawful decision from the EPA has been the justification for assaults on Kentucky,” said Coleman. “Along with AGs across the country, we’re partnering with President Trump to preserve affordable and reliable energy in Kentucky and to stop the madness that has hiked prices and killed jobs.”

The comment letter can be viewed below.