Republican Wyoming Rep. Harriet Hageman introduced a bill Friday seeking to safeguard American energy from “leftist legal crusades punishing lawful activity.”
The legislation, dubbed the Stop Climate Shakedowns Act, would prevent “retroactive climate liability lawsuits” and other proceedings to implement or enforce an energy penalty law and also dismiss pending lawsuits and proceedings beginning on the date of the bill’s enactment, according to a news release. Hageman’s bill would also void state energy penalty laws and affirm that the federal government possesses the sole authority and jurisdiction to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and other interstate environmental standards.
“Energy security is national security, and we will not self-sabotage our critical industries with a cascade of costly lawsuits and extreme penalties that jeopardize American drilling,” Hageman said in a statement.
“America’s energy producers should be protected from the dangerous legal precedent that would be set by the retroactive punishment of lawful activity,” she continued.
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