WASHINGTON (Legal Newsline) – West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Friday said the state recently penned a letter on behalf of 19 states asking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to withdraw its proposed rules on greenhouse gas emissions from new power plants because the agency failed to meet the specified deadlines set by law.

The letter, which was jointly authored by Morrisey and the attorneys general of Louisiana and Nebraska, says the Clean Air Act requires the EPA to finalize performance standards for new fossil-fueled power plans within one year of the proposed rules publishing.

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