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EPA Chemical Accident Safety Rule Challenge Ignites AG Conflict

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Sixteen Democratic AGs and the Harris County Attorney (Houston, Texas) have filed a motion to intervene in a lawsuit brought by industry groups challenging the EPA’s denial of their petition for reconsideration of the...more

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Red State AGs Sue New York State in Challenge to Climate Change Superfund Act

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In December 2024, the State of New York enacted the “Climate Change Superfund Act,” which would impose retroactive fines on fossil fuel producers for greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. (New York was...more

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Republican AGs Want to Vaporize EPA Rule Imposing Methane Charges

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A group of 23 Republican AGs filed a petition for review in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit of the EPA’s Final Rule requiring charges on certain oil and gas producers exceeding Congressional methane emissions...more

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Republican AGs Ask Court to Stay Rule Limiting Methane Emissions

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A group of 24 Republican AGs and Arizona legislative leaders have filed a motion to stay the EPA’s final rule on Standards of Performance for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources and Emissions Guidelines for Existing...more

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AGs Support EPA’s Efforts to Lower Oil and Gas Sector’s Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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A group of 19 AGs co-signed a comment letter supporting an EPA supplemental proposal to strengthen emissions regulations for facilities in the oil and natural gas sector. The proposal contains the first EPA emission...more

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