Legal Foundation Files Climate Change Lawsuit Against EPA

A group including motor carriers, businesses, several members of Congress and a conservative public interest legal foundation has filed a lawsuit in federal appeals court challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s formal finding that greenhouse gas emissions are a danger to public health.

The lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, the Southeastern Legal Foundation, called EPA’s so-called endangerment finding a “power grab” and based on “scientific errors and fraud.”

“The scientific basis for the EPA endangerment finding is flawed, based on questionable and potentially fraudulent data, and certainly does not rise to the level of certainty necessary to upend the American economy, toss millions out of work, and which promises little or no climate change benefit over the next half-century,” Shannon Goessling, executive director of the Atlanta-based foundation, said in a statement.

EPA said in a statement it believes its finding will withstand the court challenge.