Texas Joins Coalition Demanding Senate Reject Energy Bill They Say Undermines States’ Rights

Texas Joins Coalition Demanding Senate Reject Energy Bill They Say Undermines States’ Rights
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks at CPAC at the Hilton Anatole in Dallas, Texas, on July 11, 2021. Brandon Bell/Getty Images
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Texas has joined a Louisiana-led coalition of 17 state attorneys general opposing a rushed U.S. Senate bill they say would let the Biden administration “run roughshod over states’ rights” by advancing a “radically impractical energy agenda.”

Meanwhile, the White House sees the legislation as enabling and connecting “clean energy” into the country’s electricity grid.

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