Ten States Sue to Block the SEC’s Emissions Disclosure Rules (3)

West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey on Wednesday announced that a coalition of Republican leaders in 10 states is suing to block the SEC’s just-released rules requiring companies to disclose their carbon emissions.

Morrisey (R) said he and the Georgia attorney general filed a petition for review in the US Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit with support from Alabama, Alaska, New Hampshire, Indiana, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Wyoming and Virginia. Morrisey called the SEC’s rules “a back door move to undermine the energy industry.”

The move comes even though the Securities and Exchange Commission’s regulations do not contain what ...