Connecticut Attorney General George Jepsen this week joined 17 other states and a number of major cities in filing a motion to intervene against legal challenges to the Environmental Protection Agency’s clean power plan.
Jepsen was a signatory to a motion to intervene in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, in a lawsuit led by plaintiff West Virginia.
The coalition members say they have a compelling interest in defending the plan, which requires power plants to cut emissions, because it is an avenue to achieving their respective climate change goals.
Connecticut has set a goal of reducing emissions to 10 percent below 1990 levels by 2020.
“My office, in partnership with the coalition, stands ready to support and assist the EPA throughout the implementation of the plan,” Jepsen said in a statement. “We believe the plan sets reasonable limits on emissions of climate change pollution from new and existing power plants and that the plan is firmly grounded in law.”
The EPA published the plan in the Federal Register last month, spurring a legal challenge from two dozen states, according to U.S. News.
