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Arkansas Granted Right to Intervene in EPA Lawsuit

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LITTLE ROCK – Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge says the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia is allowing the state to join a lawsuit challenging a federal proposal aimed at cutting pollution from power plants.

Rutledge’s office said Monday the court granted the state’s motion to intervene in the lawsuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed 111(d) rule which calls for reducing carbon emissions from electric generating units.

Rutledge says the rule goes beyond the EPA’s authority granted by Congress and seeks to impose a national energy policy that will harm Arkansas’s economy.

“As I pointed out in my testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Oversight Subcommittee on the Interior on Feb. 26, the 111(d) rule from the EPA mandates the standards that Arkansas must achieve, rather than providing guidelines for Arkansas to use in its efforts to reduce carbon pollution,” Rutledge said in a statement. “This rule goes beyond the EPA’s authority granted by Congress and seeks to impose a national energy policy that will harm Arkansas’s economy.”

Rutledge sought the motion to intervene on Feb. 13 to join the lawsuit with attorneys general from West Virginia, Alabama, Alaska, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Wyoming and Kentucky.

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