Joe Biden is trying to push the envelope with his extreme environmental agenda.
Red states are pushing back at this federal overreach.
And Joe Biden was smacked down with a lawsuit from Florida for this green scheme.
President Joe Biden’s unaccountable and unelected Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a stringent new rule to crack down on pollution from soot.
The new soot pollution standard would have far reaching effects that could cripple the country’s economy.
It could block the development of new manufacturing plants and basic infrastructure projects like roads and bridges.
The rule would jack up the price of electricity for utilities to get in compliance with it which would drive up costs for everyone.
EPA hit with an avalanche of lawsuits over new rule
In all, 24 Republican states including Texas, and business groups headed by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and National Association of Manufacturers filed separate lawsuits trying to block the EPA’s new soot rule in federal court.
“The EPA’s new rule has more to do with advancing President (Joe) Biden’s radical green agenda than protecting Kentuckians’ health or the environment,” Kentucky Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman said.
Coleman and West Virginia Republican Attorney General Patrick Morrisey are leading the lawsuit.
States joining Kentucky and West Virginia on the lawsuit include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Utah, and Wyoming.
Coleman said that the soot rule “will drive jobs and investment out of Kentucky and overseas, leaving employers and hardworking families to pay the price.”
America already has strict pollution standards
The Republican attorneys general and business groups noted that America already has some of the highest air quality standards in the world.
Coleman said increasing air quality standards “wouldn’t improve public health, but it would put as many as 30% of all U.S. counties out of compliance under federal law, leading to aggressive new permitting requirements that could effectively block new economic activity.”
The new EPA soot rule would decrease the acceptable amount of soot, also known as fine particle pollution, to a level below what former President Barack Obama’s EPA established.
Biden’s EPA Administrator Michael Regan claimed that the new rule would stop premature deaths and benefit poor and minority communities.
Soot pollution in the U.S. has dropped by 42% since 2000.
The EPA is using pollution standards to try to wreak havoc on the economy in the name of improving public health.
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