The Utah Attorney General filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against the Environmental Protection Agency’s recently released Ozone Interstate Transport Rule and elected leaders, including Congressmen John Curtis and Blake Moore, have issued a joint statement. It reads that “Utah’s measured, all-of-the-above energy policy has powered decades of prosperity by providing some of the country’s most reliable and affordable energy. This balanced and commonsense approach has powered our state, fueled our economy, and maintained a high quality of life for Utahns. We have also dramatically decreased emissions and ozone on our own. However, the Biden administration has turned to executive rulemaking to enact policies that will force early closures of Utah power plants, putting reliable, affordable, and dispatchable power significantly at risk – and only in a few years. The Ozone Interstate Transport Rule released by the Environmental Protection Agency harms Utahns and threatens our ability to provide affordable and reliable baseload energy to our state.” The lawsuit aims to push back against what they call the administration’s egregious power grab that harms Utahns.
