Joined by more than twenty state attorneys general and several trade associations, West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey last week announced a lawsuit against New York over the state’s newly enacted climate superfund bill, which seeks to arbitrarily fine energy producers for their contributions to global climate change.

In comments to Fox News Digital, AG McCuskey blasted the New York bill:

“This bill is an attempt by New York to step into the shoes of the federal government to regulate something that they have absolutely no business regulating, and we are more than happy to step in and tell the rest of the country, along with our incredible other state partners, that this is unconstitutional, and it won’t stand.”

McCuskey characterized the lawsuit as “a fight between the elites and the people who make this country run on the back end,” a point reinforced by one of the industry groups that joined the suit, GO-West Virginia, which stated that West Virginian energy producers are “powering their economies as we always have, either with natural gas or electricity” and yet face penalties from New York state.

New York is the second state to enact climate superfund legislation. Last year, Vermont’s superfund bill was similarly challenged in court by a coalition of business groups.

Read the full story at EIDclimate.org.

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