Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli filed a petition on behalf of Virginia today asking the federal Environmental Protection Agency to reconsider its December finding that global warming poses a threat to people.
The petition asks the EPA to reconvene the regulatory process and allow the public to comment on "newly available information," according to a brief media advisory that Cuccinelli’s office put out this afternoon.
Numerous global-warming skeptics have expressed concern over the EPA’s December finding, which opens the door for the EPA to create regulations that crack down on cars and other sources of heat-trapping gases.
Cuccinelli’s office had no immediate additional comment. He will hold a press conference on the issue Wednesday afternoon.
Glen Besa, director of the Virginia chapter of the Sierra Club, said, "The attorney general is wasting taxpayers’ money on frivolous litigation that ignores the science and the law."
Besa added, "In effect, he’s questioning climate change."
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