MULTISTATE COALITION DEFEATS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S GREEN AGENDA IN COURT

05 Apr MULTISTATE COALITION DEFEATS BIDEN ADMINISTRATION’S GREEN AGENDA IN COURT

Federal Judge Blocks Rule Targeting Gas-Fueled Vehicles

April 4, 2024

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Bismarck, ND – Attorney General Drew Wrigley announced today that a 21-state coalition including North Dakota persuaded a federal judge to block the most recent example of federal overreach by the Biden Administration. The new federal rule would have required states to meet burdensome and expensive bureaucratic mandates for on-road vehicles. The 21-state coalition filed the successful court action in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Kentucky..

If the Federal Highway Administration’s rule had not been struck down, it would have required states to set arbitrary targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from on-road sources. But as the states successfully argued, and the Court held, the FHA acted improperly because Congress has not provided the FHA the statutory authority to implement these kinds of policies, and because FHA’s attempt to regulate in this instance was arbitrary and capricious.

“This case is another example of the Biden Administration ignoring the clear limitations on its authority in an attempt to implement an activist agenda that our Congress has declined to enact,” stated Attorney General Wrigley. “Federal agencies can’t act in this matter without statutory authority. That is a simple fact, but the current Administration keeps attempting to lawlessly enact it’s damaging agenda. This rule would have hit rural states particularly hard. Thankfully the Court saw this case for what it is, another attempt by the Biden team to promote an extremist climate agenda that harms North Dakotan and the nation.”

In addition to North Dakota, the 21-state coalition included Kentucky, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming.

Read the opinion.

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