MICHIGAN -- Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and authorities from eight other states are challenging a Trump-administration study they claim is intended to justify keeping fossil fuel-powered energy plants open.

Nessel on Friday, Aug. 8 said a coalition of nine state attorney generals have filed for a hearing to challenge findings of a report titled "Resource Adequacy Report: Evaluating the Reliability and Security of the United States Electric Grid."

The report was issued July 7 by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and concludes that the U.S. energy grid will not be reliable given an “overreliance on intermittent energy sources like wind and solar” and the shut-down of coal and other energy plants.

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