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July 13, 2022
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*AG Paxton Joins Amicus Brief Supporting States? Freedom to Regulate Own Emissions??*
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AUSTIN ? Attorney General Paxton joined an Indiana-led amicus brief before the United States Supreme Court asking the Court to review a lower court?s decision that ?threaten[s] regulatory chaos [and] undermines the coequal sovereignty of each State to regulate emissions within their respective borders,? according to the brief.??
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The Court of Appeals? ruling, which the Supreme Court has the power to overturn, ?threatens to let a single State?s judiciary set climate-change policy for other States. If replicated in other similar lawsuits . . . it threatens to subject energy companies . . . to multiple vague and conflicting rules governing the extraction, production, and promotion of fossil fuels . . . .???
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The case is Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc., et al. v. Board of County Commissioners of Boulder County, et al., (No. 21-1550.??
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Read the amicus brief here [ [link removed] ].?
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