"Oklahoma Gov. Mary Fallin (R) and the state Legislature are taking a stand against Obama administration climate rules.
Fallin signed an executive order this week saying her state will not comply with a proposed Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) rule setting targets for carbon emission reduction at power plants. Republicans have said the plan is an unfair expansion of executive power.
Fallin's order prohibits the state's Department of Environmental Quality from writing a strategy to reduce carbon emissions under the Clean Power Plan.
It directs the state's attorney general, himself an opponent of the plan, to analyze the legality of the climate rule and "take such action as is necessary to enforce the rights of the state of Oklahoma and its citizens from such federal actions as may impact the freedoms of its people."
"As Governor, I will not submit [a plan] to ensure Oklahoma's compliance with such a clear overreach of executive authority," Fallin's order said." TheHill
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