West Virginia Gov. Patrick Morrisey is on the verge of a hard-fought victory, and he is pushing for more.
Morrisey spent much of the past decade fighting EPA’s regulations to limit carbon dioxide pollution from power plants, as the state’s Republican attorney general. Now that those rules are expected to be rescinded in the coming weeks, Morrisey is urging President Donald Trump to go further. He wants to see the administration challenge the endangerment finding, a scientific declaration from 2009 that grants EPA the authority to reduce climate pollution.
In an interview with POLITICO’s E&E News, Morrisey described the finding’s assertion that carbon dioxide is a threat to human health as “flawed,” saying it is “important to go back and do the science right.”
The first-term governor, who came to office in January, said he would ask the Trump administration “to question the underlying premise” of the endangerment finding and “ensure that we’re focusing on a much bigger strategic priority, which is the competition between the United States and China.”
