The energy industry, including fossil fuel companies and utilities, are worried that efforts to do away with the 2009 endangerment finding that made the Clean Air Act climate rules possible, could wipe out regulatory certainty.
Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead told E&E News that “[t]here is great concern that reversing the finding would open the door to a lot more nuisance lawsuits against all types of energy companies — and it would eliminate one of the best arguments that oil companies have used to get lawsuits against them dismissed.”
