Republican AGs sue Biden administration over vehicle emissions rule

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen and 20 other Republican state attorneys general sued the Biden administration Thursday in an attempt to block a recently finalized federal rule that requires states to set targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transportation in their states.

The states allege in the lawsuit, filed in federal court in Kentucky, that the U.S. Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration, their leaders, and President Joe Biden do not have the authority to regulate those types of emissions or force states to comply with a federal program.

“The rule is another unlawful and overreaching regulation by the Biden Administration to force the president’s radical green agenda onto Americans regardless of the costs,” Knudsen said in a statement. “This one-size-fits-all approach might work for the Washington, D.C., bureaucrats who cooked it up, but it won’t work for Montana.”