WV Leads 22 States in Suing NY Over $75B Climate Superfund Law

At the end of the last legislative session in December, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul, an extremist liberal, signed into law a new climate bill forcing a short list of Big Oil companies to pay $75 billion in “recovery” assessments over the next 25 years for their alleged role in causing mythical global warming (see NY Gov. Hochul Goes Nuts: Signs Law Billing O&G Companies $75B). We outlined how the law is unconstitutional and illegal (see The Legal Case Against NY Law Taxing O&G $75B for Global Warming). Yesterday, the Attorneys General for 22 states, led by the AG from West Virginia, filed a lawsuit in federal court challenging NY's Climate Superfund Act.

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