RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) - State Department of Environmental Quality Secretary Michael Regan is asking a federal appeals court to allow the agency to withdraw from a legal challenge to part of the federal Clean Power Plan.
A statement from the department said the motion to withdraw from the case was filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia by N.C. Attorney General Josh Stein on behalf of Regan and the agency.
Regan said his department feels that “pursuing this potentially expensive legal challenge is not a good use of state resources” and wouldn’t be in the best interest of taxpayers.
Under former Republican Gov. Pat McCrory, North Carolina joined other states in October 2015 to challenge the part of the plan that addresses carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.
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