FRANKFORT, Ky. (Sept. 23, 2025)– Attorney General Russell Coleman announced today that Kentucky and West Virginia Attorney General J.B. McCuskey are co-leading a 26-state coalition to repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) legal underpinning for some of the worst policies of the last decades, including the Green New Deal, the EPA’s electric vehicle mandates and the so-called Clean Power Plan. In a comment letter to the Trump Administration's EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, the attorneys general supported the reversal of the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding under the Clean Air Act.
In 2009, the Obama Administration relied on bad science and untested legal theories to rule that carbon dioxide was a major contributor to climate change and was a danger to public health. That one decision became the justification for the federal government’s assault on Kentuckians through costly and burdensome regulations.
“Finalizing this proposed action is an important step to freeing American industry from burdensome, unlawful regulations and restoring the Clean Air Act's proper, congressionally intended structure,” the attorneys general stated in their submission.
The attorneys general argued in the comment letter that the Obama Administration’s finding was both unlawful and scientifically unproven. The Trump Administration’s EPA has formally begun the regulatory process to repeal the Endangerment Finding that has burdened Kentucky’s economy and workers for so long.
“The nonsensical green agenda has gone on long enough. For 15 years, this one unlawful decision from the EPA has been the justification for assaults on Kentucky,” said Attorney General Coleman. “Along with AGs across the country, we’re partnering with President Trump to preserve affordable and reliable energy in Kentucky and to stop the madness that has hiked prices and killed jobs.”
Last year, Kentucky and West Virginia led a 25-state coalition to block President Biden and his EPA from imposing an EV mandate on passenger cars, light-duty trucks and medium-duty vehicles. That legal challenge was one of several efforts led by General Coleman to oppose EV mandates.
The Kentucky and West Virginia-led comment letter to the EPA was joined by attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Wyoming.
Read the comment letter.