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General Category => Greater Reno Tahoe Area => Topic started by: AngelOfThyNight on February 29, 2016, 11:07:41 PM

Title: Laxalt files brief on constitutionality of EPA’s Clean Power Plan
Post by: AngelOfThyNight on February 29, 2016, 11:07:41 PM

Laxalt files brief on constitutionality of EPA’s Clean Power Plan













 







This story has been updated to clarify the actions taken by the Attorney General’s office Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt filed a friend-of-the-court brief on the constitutionality of the EPA’s regulation rule-making authority. Nevada’s brief explains how, under the Clean Air Act, individual states have primary decision-making authority to establish pollution emission standards for already-existing power plants, Laxalt’s office said in a statement. The EPA’s sweeping Clean Power Plan rule, however, disregards the text of the Act in this and other ways, exceeding the federal agency’s statutory authority, the AG’s office said.“We are repeatedly seeing more federal regulation that is  …
Source: Laxalt files brief on constitutionality of EPA’s Clean Power Plan (http://www.NevadaAppeal.com/news/local/20808552-113/laxalt-files-brief-on-constitutionality-of-epas-clean?utm_source=swift_rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss-referrals&utm_section=Local)