West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Thursday said the U.S. Supreme Court made the correct decision in granting a stay of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s ozone Good Neighbor federal implementation plan.
“The country’s power grid is already stressed as it is, and now this administration is attempting to add more regulation that’s going to stress the grid even more,” Attorney General Morrisey said. “This decision by the Supreme Court is correct but the EPA will keep trying to legislate and bypass Congress’s authority—and it has been settled by the Supreme Court: the EPA must regulate within the express boundaries of the statute that Congress passed.”
West Virginia, along with Indiana and Ohio, filed the stay application earlier this year. They argued the EPA’s plan “is likely to cause electric-grid emergencies as power suppliers strain to adjust to the federal plan’s terms.”
The Supreme Court’s decision puts the plan on hold while the case proceeds in the lower courts.
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