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 pub