Attorneys General in fourteen states, including North Dakota and Colorado, suspect the Environmental Protection Agency is trying to keep them from suing over the Clean Power Plan.
That’s the Obama Administration’s ambitious regulation to cut carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. As Inside Energy’s Emily Guerin reports, they have filed a Freedom of Information Act request to find out.
States have until September 2016 to come up with a plan to comply with the rule, which was finalized in August. But if their plan is to sue the EPA to overturn the rule, they have to wait until it’s published in the federal register. And that hasn’t happened yet.
Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem of North Dakota thinks the EPA is deliberately delaying publication.
“I try to be cynical, but sometimes it’s hard to keep up.”
The EPA says the rule should be published by late October.