14-State Coalition Call for End of Reckless EPA
Proposal
BATON ROUGE, LA - Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry has led a 14-state
coalition against Joe Biden’s continued attack on American Energy. In a letter
to Biden’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Attorney General Landry and
fellow state attorneys general assert that the proposed reversal of a Trump-era
rule will cause ambiguity and cripple energy development in America.
“Biden’s proposal will allow Green New Deal sympathizers to thwart energy
production projects across the country,” said Attorney General Landry. “In this
time of record inflation – Americans need affordable, reliable energy now more
than ever. Biden and his bureaucrats continue trying to implement policies that
will further cripple our neighbors who can afford it the least, the poor and
working class.”
The proposed change in the Clean Water Act (CWA) will allow energy-hostile
states to delay and halt critical energy projects for political reasons that
have nothing to do with water quality. In the past, activists states have
halted projects in neighboring states by playing games with certifications for
badly-needed pipelines and port facilities. A glaring example is the governor
of Washington restricting energy development in Montana and Wyoming by blocking
construction of the Millennium Bulk Terminal.
“In the case of the Millennium Bulk Terminal, Washington State blocked the
terminal's construction by inappropriately denying the State's Section 401
certification on account of non-water quality related impacts,” explained
Attorney General Landry and his colleagues. “This is an illegal maneuver based
on alleged effects that are outside of the scope of Section 401.”
Attorney General Landry and the others conclude their letter by imploring the
EPA to perform an analysis of Biden's executive order to prevent states from
abusing their CWA certifying authority to block projects.
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