Laxalt files brief opposing Clean Power Plan

Attorney General Adam Laxalt filed an amicus brief Wednesday opposing the Clean Power Plan, lending his support to legal challenges to stop Environmental Protection Agency regulations requiring the reduction of carbon emissions by 32 percent over 2005 levels in the next 15 years.“We are repeatedly seeing more federal regulation that is less tied to the actual text of the laws that federal agencies claim is the basis for their rules,” Laxalt said in a statement.An appeal by more than