New York ‘polluters pay’ law backcharging oil, gas companies faces Republican AGs’ lawsuit: ‘Devastating’

First on Fox: In one of his first great movements, newly elected West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey is suing New York for the new “devastating” law of the state, which is retrospectively charges billions of dollars for pollution from 2000 to 2018.

“This draft law is an attempt by New York to step into the federal government’s shoes, to regulate something that you have absolutely no business regulation, and we are more than happy, the rest of the country together with our incredible other state partners is unconstitutional and it will not stand, “McCuskey told Fox News Digital in an interview.

In the lawsuit it is claimed that the law signed by Governor Kathy Hochul, Known as a climate change Superfund Act, aims unfairly at traditional energy producers – regardless of whether they work in New York by imposing massive financial liabilities.

“These energy decisions – and the advantages that go with them – give the necessary compromises. All. All Energy consumption, Including energy, which comes from “renewable” sources, creates a certain pollution, “says the 59-page lawsuit.” The traditional energy is no different. “

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After the complaint, the burden of these costs will not decrease About New York consumers But instead producers and consumers in other states are forced. The lawsuit also claims that New York uses these funds to subsidize its own infrastructure projects such as a new sewage system in New York City, which was damaged by extreme weather events.

The lawsuit, submitted to the US district court for the Northern District of New York Albany Division, quotes New York AG Litia James, Sean Mahar, the interim commissioner of the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and Amanda Hiller, the incumbent tax commissioner from the New York State Department of Taxation and Finance.

“If you live in the real world, how I and you live in a place like West VirginiaWhere the values ​​of the people point out that we pay our bills, we are modest, we are modest and we respect people around us, “said McCuskey.” This type of things hits us much harder. And so, you know, this is really a struggle between the elites and the people who run this country at the back. “

Attorney General for Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas, Utah and Wyoming, who have also joined the laws . The West Virginia Coal Association, the gas and oil association of West Virginia and the Alpha Metallurgical Resources, Inc., also follow the complaint.

The draft law, which was first introduced under the bidden administration, is a “landmark legislation shifted the costs for the climate adaptation of everyday New York to the fuel companies most responsible for pollution,” according to the press release of the Governor 2024.

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“If it is ensured that those who are responsible for the historical air-conditioning emissions are climate-oriented effects that have been experienced today and use the significant investments that the governor makes in climate resistance.

The law stipulates that fossil fuel companies will bring together 75 billion US dollars in a committed “superfund” over the next 25 years, which would then contribute to reconstruction Climate change-induced Infrastructure damage.

“This liability could be devastating for traditional energy producers,” says the lawsuit. “Indeed, ruinous liability that the law promises – especially in combination with similar efforts that could occur in other countries – could force coal, oil and natural gas producers to close as a whole.”

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A total of 38 companies – including American oil giants Exxon and Chevron, the British bowl and the BP as well as the Brazil Petrobras – could be classified as a “carbon polluter” that can be received at the end of the high invoices. Fox News Digital previously reported.

New York’s efforts to hold energy producers to account come at a time when the Trump government moves in the opposite direction and the climate obligations rolled back by a recently carried out order of the executive.

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Trump signed two executive orders last month, the US and environmental policy of the US Biden Administration’s Priorities. The Order “Exchange American Energy” aims to increase the production of fossil fuels through the fossil additive by reducing regulations and accelerating permits for oil, gas and coal projects. In the meantime, “The first in international environmental agreements” with the USA from global climate obligations, including the Paris Agreement, withdraws and considers funding to be international climate coitives. This is the second time under a Trump presidency that the United States left the Paris Agreement.

FOX News Digital has contacted the offices of the New York governor, Attorney General and the incumbent tax officer as well as the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for Comments.