Judicial Watch: NC Withdraws from Challenge to Clean Power Plan
North Carolina is officially no longer on the wrong side of a key lawsuit attacking efforts to clean up our air and address climate change.
A federal Appeals Court last week granted North Carolina’s request to withdraw from the case challenging the Obama Administration’s Clean Power Plan. The request to withdraw was filed by new NC Attorney General Josh Stein at the request of new Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Secretary Michael Regan.
Other, still wrong-headed states will continue the legal challenge, but the withdrawal of North Carolina’s official participation is a powerful symbol of the change in our state’s executive branch policies under Governor Roy Cooper. It’s an example of why it matters who we elect and why it matters whether the governor we elect can make independent decisions on what constitutes good policy for the executive branch departments.
