{"id":15919,"date":"2013-08-23T09:46:06","date_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:46:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=15919"},"modified":"2013-08-23T09:46:06","modified_gmt":"2013-08-23T14:46:06","slug":"why-oklahomas-attorney-general-is-using-coal-to-fight-the-epa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/08\/23\/why-oklahomas-attorney-general-is-using-coal-to-fight-the-epa\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Oklahoma\u2019s Attorney General is Using Coal to Fight the EPA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_15920\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/scott-pruitt.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15920\" alt=\"Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/scott-pruitt.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/scott-pruitt.jpg 300w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/scott-pruitt-100x150.jpg 100w, https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2013\/08\/scott-pruitt-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is no fan of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and filing lawsuits against the federal agency has become a signature of the state\u2019s chief legal adviser.<\/p><p>Pruitt on Aug. 21 said he would appeal the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals <a href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2013\/07\/19\/federal-appeals-court-rules-against-oklahoma-and-oge-on-air-pollution-plan\/\">ruling that rejected Oklahoma\u2019s authority<\/a> to use its own regulatory plan to limit sulfur dioxide emissions at coal-fired power plans owned by Oklahoma Gas & Electric, the state\u2019s largest electric utility.<\/p><p>And at an Aug. 22 forum co-hosted by Pruitt and U.S. Rep. James Lankford, a libertarian researcher said an environmental compliance plan by the state\u2019s second largest power utility to end its coal use would be too expensive, <em>The Oklahoman<\/em>\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/newsok.com\/pso-plan-to-phase-out-coal-generation-may-cost-too-much-group-says\/article\/3874964?custom_click=rss\">Paul Monies reports<\/a>:<\/p><p>Oklahoma isn\u2019t Wyoming or West Virginia, so why does our Attorney General care if the fed\u2019s environmental agency cracks down on coal?<!--more--><\/p><p>Coal today \u2014 oil and natural gas tomorrow, Pruitt fears:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230; I believe the EPA has an anti-fossil fuel mentality,\u201d Pruitt said. \u201cThey started with coal, and now it&#8217;s reached natural gas. &#8230; You see that permeating the EPA&#8217;s approach to these laws. That&#8217;s the reason I think they are rejecting, and dismissing and not respecting, the role of the states.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt is no fan of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and filing lawsuits against the federal agency has become a signature of the state\u2019s chief legal adviser.Pruitt on Aug. 21 said he would appeal the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that rejected Oklahoma\u2019s authority to use its own regulatory plan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[490,491],"tags":[554,532,499,207,525,536,552],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15919"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15925,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15919\/revisions\/15925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}