The lawsuit claims the Environmental Protection Agency exceeded its authority with its plan to reduce ozone emissions that cross state lines.
on May 27. Paxton is banned from running the office while he awaits his impeachment trial before the Texas Senate.
The attorney general’s office did not respond to a request for comment Friday. The TCEQ said it usually doesn’t comment on pending litigation. “The EPA takes on — however poorly — critical reliability issues and ignores the independent nature of the Texas electric grid,” Paxton wrote, stating that it was “inappropriate” for the EPA’s plan to require states to consider shifting from electric generation to renewable or lower-emission sources of electricity as a strategy to reduce ozone.
Texas sued the EPA over that ruling in February. An email from the attorney general’s office at the time said that “the rule that would undercut states’ authority and efforts to properly regulate their own environment.”
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