Iowa Attorney General Brenna Bird is leading a coalition of nine states in a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Security and Exchange Commission (SEC) rule mandating businesses to disclose their greenhouse gas emissions. This action follows a similar lawsuit filed by ten states in the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals last week, with more states expected to join in various districts. The lawsuit argues the SEC rule burdens businesses with costly regulations and forces them to disclose proprietary information. Bird says, “Biden has, once again, turned his back on the heartland and Iowa farmers with his latest climate scheme. He knows his radical climate agenda doesn’t have support from Congress, so he illegally sidesteps our lawmakers to force his mandate on Iowans. Not only will this mandate impose costly red tape on businesses, but it will devastate our supply chain and hurt Iowa family farms.” The lawsuit asserts that the SEC can only enact such mandates with legislative backing. Joining Iowa in the lawsuit are Arkansas, Idaho, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, and the American Free Enterprise Chamber of Commerce. A link to the complete 894-page petition is included below.
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