Thirteen AGs Called for EPA Administrator’s Recusal from Clean Power Plan Repeal Process

JANUARY 9, 2018

California Attorney General Xavier Becerra led a coalition of 13 attorneys general in filing comments arguing that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) “failure to disqualify” Administrator Scott Pruitt from the Clean Power Plan repeal process “irreparably tainted” the rulemaking because he “prejudged” the outcome prior to and during his tenure leading the agency, resulting in a “lack of due process and fairness.” The attorneys general argued that the EPA “must withdraw the proposed repeal,” or “any resulting rule will be invalid.”