Attorney General Todd Rokita calls on Biden administration to halt economy-wrecking war on power plants

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Attorney General Todd Rokita continues to call on the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to stop plans to impose stringent new emissions standards on power plants in Indiana and elsewhere without fulfilling its legal duty of first weighing costs and energy impacts.

“These ill-considered rules would force the closure of coal- and natural gas-fired power plants,” Attorney General Rokita said. “They would put Hoosiers out of work, raise Hoosiers’ energy prices and erode the reliability of our energy grid. We will not stand idly by while federal overreach strangles the Indiana economy.”

Along with attorneys general from 15 other states, Attorney General Rokita called this week for retraction of the proposed new rules in a letter to EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan.

The EPA has admitted to the validity of concerns expressed in a letter earlier this year from Attorney General Rokita and others. Instead of fixing problems with the new proposed rules or withdrawing them, however, the EPA simply tasked other stakeholders with coming up with solutions.

Attorney General Rokita noted that the new rule-making exceeds the EPA’s statutory authority and would reshape the nation’s electricity grid in an unlawful and destructive manner. The Clean Air Act requires that the EPA consider the cost and energy impacts of emission reduction measures.

“Hoosiers expect and deserve federal policies that protect both America’s environment and its energy infrastructure now and into the future,” Attorney General Rokita said. “These rules completely fail on that count. That’s why we are taking action to scuttle the flawed new rules and produce a better blueprint to serve businesses, communities and individual households.”

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  1. .
    Please. Todd Rokita is besieged by fears of losing reelection because he is a failure in office, instead of doing his job (which he is not doing), he is under constant pressure to hire legal defenses for his off-the-books income while being an officer of the State, and for dragging Indiana into civil liability lawsuits for his constant errors in office.

    So what do you do?

    “Send out a Press Release!”
    “We’re running out of subject Sir. What about?”

    I don’t know! Biden! Send something out about Biden! Say he’s responsible for the Hoosiers not winning NCAA Final Fours! Say he’s trying to take our Pickups! Say he’s trying to keep us from making money! Anything!! Send it out……………!!!!!”

    This is what happens when you become a weak-minded, easily manipulate fool for Donald Trunp. Rokita is in bed with an orange-faced One-Term President clown. And he’s losing.

    • His/her posts remind me of a child kicking and screaming for attention from his/her mommy. But without any of the sincerity, just the whining noise.

      • .
        Ha! You guys are full of nothing but fear, and easily manipulated.
        Open your wallets for Trump, so he can pay his legal bills.
        Weak! I laugh at your cowardice and insignificance.

  3. Jack Clark your name should be:
    Anti America Jack Clark. You should understand what Biden has done to Our Country to put all of us in harms way. Closing pipe lines, rising gasoline prices, using our nation’s oils reserves and much much more. Yo must understand that OUR NATION’S ECONONY COMES FIRST. Some thing Biden has forgotten !

    • Bernice; I think you need to learn a few things. The Keystone pipeline would have sent Canadian oil to refineries in the south. Canada would have benefited, the owners of the refineries would have benefited, we wouldn’t have seen any benefits. President Biden released our oil reserves in order to lower the price of gas. The price of gas is based on the international oil trade of which we are a huge part. If American oil companies, who export huge amounts of oil to Europe where gas is $3 per litre, would sell there gas at home, the price of gas would be the cheapest anywhere I the world. If they were to do this however, the stockholders would be furious.
      If you were to open your eyes, you would realize that the economy has recovered from the mess that President Biden inherited from his predecessor. Inflation is down, unemployment is down, earnings are up, the GDP is up. If you want to blame this kind of success on President Biden then I recommend that you do.

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