Attorney General Russell Coleman speaks during the chic farm picnic on August 2, 2025 (Austin Anthony for the Kentucky Lantern)
The Republican Attorney General Russell Coleman Kentucky and GOP General Prosecutor from 25 other countries support a Trump administration to set the determination that regulates the ability of the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The Attorney General submitted them letterLed by Coleman and Attorney General of West Virginia, John “JB” McCuskey, Monday at the US environmental protection authority. The letter supports the Trump epas Proposal to reverse the former finding of the agency These greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, threaten “both public health and the public well -being of current and future generations.
The “hazard” in 2009 determined as part of the Obama administration has served as a legal basis for a number of federal regulations that have the greenhouse gas emissions, including one 2024 Biden management rule These restricted breed tube emissions of vehicles. The foundation followed a 2007 Supreme Court of 2007 Decision This showed that the greenhouse gas agency could regulate as an air pollutant according to the law on Clean Air.
Coleman in a statement by A Press release Tuesday when the 88-page letter is highlighted, the “said”Illegal “EPA Festival” was the justification for attacks on Kentucky. ”
“Together with AGS across the country, we work with President Trump to keep affordable and reliable energy in Kentucky and stop the madness that increases prices and killed jobs,” said Coleman.
The EPA assessment was also found in the press release from Coleman’s office.Some of the worst guidelines in recent decades ”, citing the immaculate power plan, which aims to curse the carbon emissions from existing power plants and“ Mandates for electric vehicles ”.
The letter questions the near unanimous scientific consensus The emissions of greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide from human activities, such as. B. Burning fossil fuels, drive up the warming of the earth’s climate.
“[C]Limit Science did not support the risk in 2009, and since then, science has only deteriorated for the original knowledge of the EPA, ”wrote the Attorney General in the introduction of the letter.
The letter claims that the boost in carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere “would only have a trivial influence on the global temperature”, citing physicists Steven Koonin, Richard Lindzin and William Happer, who have questioned climate science and the risk of climate change.
VIC Maddox, Lawyer for Special Legal Disputes for the Attorney General of Kentucky, quoted Lindzin and Happer in last year in Certificate for state legislators The role of carbon dioxide in climate change was controversial.
The letter is made by the Attorney General from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Woynina, Molina, Mysoga, Tennesese, Gtehoga, Mylina, Mylina, Mysoga, Woynina, Woynina, Tenantee, Tennesse, Tennate, Tenantee, Tenness, Gesga, Tenantee, Gesch, Tenantee, Gesoga, Mylahom, Woyoga, Tenantee, Tenneta, Tennesse, Gedoga, Seithoga, signed.
The intergovernmental body for climate change, a corporation in the United Nations, in A 2021 report The role of the declared person in climate change was “clear” and climate change with an increasing frequency of heat waves, droughts, powerful precipitation events, stronger hurricanes and other extreme weather.
A number of environmental and health representative groups are calling for the EPA to receive the risk finding. The American Lung Association and other health organizations wrote That people would suffer if “life-saving pollution controls are ignored on the production floor and the overwhelming scientific consensus and the law-above climate change”.
Byron Gary, a lawyer of the Environmental Legal Group Kentucky Resources Council, told the Lantern that he had not checked the letter from the General Prosecutor. However, he said that an reversal of the risk assessment by the EPA would lead to the fact that it would continue to rely on the “aging fossil infrastructure”, which would boost the energy costs, reduce energy reliability and make climate change worse.
Gary pointed to one Article Published this month in the British Weekly Scientific Journal Nature, in which it was found that the health effects of smoke from increased forest fires that were driven by climate change could lead to tens of thousands of increased deaths.
“These are real effects on people’s lives. They will kill people if this is lifted,” said Gary.
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