Republican State AGs Take Biden Admin To Court Over Costly Green Power Plant Scheme

A coalition of more than two dozen Republican state attorneys general are challenging one of the Biden administration’s signature environmental regulations.

Twenty-five attorneys general sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday over the agency’s stringent, recently-finalized regulations targeting new natural gas- and coal-fired power plants. The regulations require many existing coal plants and new natural gas facilities to control 90% of their emissions by 2032 if they want to stay open in the longer term, a mandate that will effectively require plant operators to spend billions of dollars on expensive carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) equipment or close down.