[The Democrats try a novel way to create a slush fund that they can spend on any old thing within the state- but definitely not to help the climate. If this scam was successful the price of gasoline would skyrocket. The Dem states claim the money would come from the demonized petroleum companies, but this is a naked gas tax imposed on the people of the state.]

Trump administration sues four Democratic-led states to block climate laws, lawsuits

May 1, 2025

President Donald Trump's administration said on Thursday it is suing four Democratic-led states to prevent them from enforcing "burdensome and ideologically motivated" laws and pursuing lawsuits against the fossil fuel industry over the harms caused by climate change.

The U.S. Department of Justice in a pair of lawsuits argued that recent laws New York, opens new tab and Vermont, opens new tab adopted requiring oil companies to contribute billions of dollars into funds to pay for damage caused by climate change were unconstitutional.

New York alone hopes to raise $75 billion through its "superfund" law, which the Justice Department called a "transparent monetary-extraction scheme" designed to fund the state's infrastructure projects with money from out-of-state businesses.

The Justice Department filed those cases on Thursday, a day after it launched two preemptive cases seeking to stop Hawaii and Michigan from filing planned lawsuits against major oil companies over climate change, cases the administration said would imperil domestic energy production.

The Justice Department in its lawsuits against Hawaii, opens new tab and Michigan, opens new tab said such lawsuits constitute an "extraordinary extraterritorial reach" that unlawfully undermine federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions and the administration's foreign policy objectives.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/trump-administration-sues-michigan-block-planned-climate-change-lawsuit-2025-05-01/