May 14, 2020 · A coalition of nine attorneys general filed a federal lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency in response to the EPA’s announced policy that it will stop enforcing requirements under a wide range of federal …
Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt and the attorneys general of 11 other states sued the Environmental Protection Agency Tuesday demanding that the …
May 14, 2020 · Nine attorneys general sued agency, saying it exceeded its authority by issuing a 'broad, open-ended policy' A flag with the EPA logo flies in …
May 01, 2020 · Science and the Law, and Strips Our Nation’s Waters of Basic Protections. NEW YORK – Attorney General Letitia James today co-led a coalition of 18 attorneys general and the City of New York in suing Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its new “Dirty Water Rule,” which eliminates legal protections for countless streams and wetlands across the …
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Annual budget | $9,057,401,000 (2020) |
Agency executives | Michael S. Regan, Administrator Janet McCabe, Deputy Administrator |
Website | www.epa.gov |
Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, a Democrat, whose state has been a plaintiff in dozens of cases against the Trump administration, said the White House adopted extreme positions that in her view flouted laws and required consistent action.
California's Democratic attorney general, Xavier Becerra, has been part of the most multistate lawsuits, according to Nolette's data.
Greg Zoeller, a Republican who was Indiana's attorney general from 2009 to 2017, said the "dysfunction of the legislative branch" was a big reason Obama pushed through executive orders and administrative rules of his own, which alarmed Republican attorneys general.
The attorneys general have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) more than any other agency in government. All told, the EPA has faced 31 lawsuits over proposals to roll back Obama-era environmental laws or to implement new rules.
Obama was losing 2-to-1, and he was allegedly a "constitutional law scholar.". Some of his executive orders, and his recess appointments to the NLRB, were declared unconstitutional by a unanimous Supreme Court. That includes Kagan, Sotomayor and The Notorious RBG.
EPA, the Supreme Court determined that states had what it called “special solicitude” — making it easier for states to get cases in front of the Court. At the same time, the 2005 Class Action Fairness Act made it more difficult for private parties to pursue class-action lawsuits, Nolette said.
The constitutional challenge to the Affordable Care Act started with a conference call months before the bill even became law. Henry McMaster, then the attorney general of South Carolina, got 10 of his fellow Republican attorneys general on the phone in December 2009. He told them that he wanted to challenge the so-called “Cornhusker kickback” ...
James Tierney, a former Maine attorney general who now heads Columbia University’s National State Attorneys General Program and is viewed as a foremost expert on attorneys general, told TPM that he didn’t think the trends being observed by others were particularly different from what had been done before.
This is a way for them to make political hay,” Bill Marshall, former deputy White House counsel and now a law professor at the University of North Carolina, told TPM. Technology has also played a role. “You press a button, and you can communicate with all 50 states. It makes it incredibly easy to coordinate.”.