Texas joins almost half the states in suit against EPA 'Power Plan'

Washington Times:

A coalition of 24 states and a power company filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the Obama administration’s “Clean Power Plan,” calling it an unlawful federal bid to control state power grids.

The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on the same day that the Environmental Protection Agency published the plan, also known as the 111(d) rule, in the Federal Register.

“The EPA’s latest power grab — disguised as a ‘Clean Power Plan’ — takes already burdensome federal regulations a step further by driving up energy costs, stagnating job growth, threatening the reliability of our electric grid and treading all over the State of Texas’ sovereignty,” Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement.

“With seemingly no concept of what it costs to support a family, start a business or save for retirement, the federal government has yet again proven its readiness to sacrifice American jobs in the name of expanding bureaucratic authority and pushing its liberal agenda,” Mr. Abbott said.

As part of the lawsuit, the states seek to place a hold on the “Clean Power Plan’s” deadlines for meeting its carbon emissions goals, which supporters have described as necessary to improve air quality but foes have criticized as arbitrary and unrealistically strict.

Meanwhile, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell announced Friday that he and Sen. Joe Manchin, West Virginia Democrat, will file a resolution of disapproval under the Congressional Review Act in an effort to stop the agency’s rule against new coal-fired plants from taking effect.
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The suit has been delayed by the failure of the EPA to file its new rule until today.  Like many other EPA actions, this one appears to be put together by environmental activist inside and outside of government, with no in put from those impacted by the onerous regulations.   It appears to be based on dubious at best cost benefit analysis.