Twenty-two Republican attorneys general are suing New York in federal court over a new state law requiring energy companies to retroactively pay for the costs of climate change.
West Virginia’s newly elected Attorney General John “JB” McCuskey, who is leading the suit, said in a press conference Thursday that New York was acting unconstitutionally by imposing billions of dollars of costs each year on energy-producing states and companies under its Climate Superfund Act.
If red states don’t take on the question now, he said, they’re likely to face similar efforts from other liberal states.
“We’re not going to allow left-leaning states like California, New York, Vermont to dictate to the American people how they are going to get their electricity,” McCuskey said.
