Vermont Business Magazine Attorney General William HSorrell joined with 16 other states and cities in announcing their intention to oppose a request that would stay EPA’s Clean Power Plan. The Clean Power Plan is a result of a decade-long effort by states to require mandatory cuts in emissions of climate change pollution from power plants – the single largest U.S. source of these emissions. Significant reductions in these emissions must occur to prevent increases in the adverse impacts of climate change such as heat-related deaths and illnesses, smog, asthma, pneumonia and bronchitis, extreme weather, threats to agriculture and forest productivity, and threats to our energy, transportation and water resource infrastructure.
Attorney General Sorrell and the other states and cities issued the following joint statement:
“West Virginia and other states have filed a request to stay the Clean Power Plan, a new federal rule that will protect Americans from the harmful impacts of climate change on our economies and environment. Like West Virginia’s challenge to the proposed rule, which was dismissed by the courts, this filing is premature. If and when requests to stay the final rule are timely filed, after the rule has been published in the Federal Register, our coalition will formally oppose them.”
The Attorneys General of New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa, New Mexico, California, Oregon, Washington, and Hawaii, New York City and the District of Columbia joined Attorney General Sorrell in issuing this statement.
Vermont AG: Aug 14, 2015