For Immediate Release:
September 30, 2025
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(Montgomery, Ala) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall filed a 26-state amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of essential energy companies who have been targeted by the City and County of Boulder, Colorado. By claiming the right to tax energy companies for downstream greenhouse gas emissions anywhere in the world, Boulder’s suit would undermine the sovereignty of every other State to regulate energy and the environment and threaten to raise energy prices everywhere.
“The idea that any city, county, or state can regulate every single molecule of pollution that enters the atmosphere anywhere in the world is ridiculous,” stated Attorney General Marshall. “Yet this is the theory of ongoing lawsuits in Colorado, California, Maryland, Minnesota, Hawaii, and many other places. This power grab would drastically weaken the rights of states throughout the union. Our coalition is once again asking the Justices to intervene before a trial judge can throw a multi-billion-dollar wrench in our nation’s energy system.”
Citing “centuries of precedent,” the 26 States write, “No State can enforce its own policy on the others, so either Congress or interstate common law must provide the rule which shall control.” The brief continues, “The time to intervene is now—before courts amenable to these lawsuits can do serious damage.”
Joining Attorney General Marshall in the brief are attorneys general from: Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
To read the full brief, click here.
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