States fight each other in litigation surrounding EPA greenhouse gas rules

More than two-thirds of the states have leaped into the various lawsuits challenging the array of greenhouse gas regulations imposed by the Obama administration.

That's according to a report from E&E Publishing, Inc.'s Greenwire.

The divide among the states seems to closely match 2008 voting patterns. Most of the states that have intervened on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency were carried by President Obama, while the bulk of those attacking EPA ended up in Republican John McCain's column.

E&E News has posted a regularly updated special report on its website that provides ongoing information about the slew of lawsuits attacking four greenhouse gas emission-related regulations: the so-called reporting rule, the "endangerment" finding mandated by the U.S. Supreme Court's 2007 decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, the withdrawal of the "Johnson memo," the "auto rule," and the "tailoring rule."