State AG files suit over plan to rescue coal plants
The Trump administration kept Americans in the dark while trying to push through a plan to prop up Big Coal and halt the retirement of aging, polluting power plants, the state Attorney General's Office charged in a court suit filed Thursday.
Attorney General Bob Ferguson is seeking to make the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission hand over records "unlawfully withheld" as FERC considered a plan to remake wholesale energy markets by favoring producers of coal- and nuclear-generated electricity.
The AG's suit is using the federal Freedom of Information Act, usually a vehicle for citizens seeking to smoke out government secrets.
"While it was considering a proposal that would have upended the American wholesale energy market, FERC went long periods of time without holding any public meetings," Ferguson said late Thursday.
"The public has a right to know what the commission's correspondence was during that time, which is why I filed a Freedom of Information Act request. After an initial acknowledgment, FERC has apparently ignored this request. This is unacceptable."
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