Nineteen AGs Filed Comments to Defend the Clean Power Plan

APRIL 26, 2018

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a coalition of nineteen attorneys general in filing comments with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to defend the Clean Power Plan (CPP) and oppose the “unlawful and unsupported” repeal proposed by EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. In their comments, the attorneys general emphasized that the EPA’s proposed repeal “is contrary to the Clean Air Act and arbitrary and capricious. To propose to repeal the Plan-without having first put in place a replacement rule that requires equivalent or greater pollution reductions-is nothing less than an abdication of EPA’s duty to protect public health and welfare from what it has recognized to be the nation’s most urgent environmental threat.”