WYOMING — Wyoming has joined nine other states in a lawsuit to prevent the Biden Administration from implementing an executive order that Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon says threatens to impose more burdens and harms on the American people.
“This Executive Order improperly changes how decisions are made by applying a selective and highly biased feel-good rationale that has the potential to significantly harm industries critical to the nation’s and my state’s livelihood,” Governor Gordon said. “Arbitrarily justifying any decision to fit political circumstances, including decisions that could be devastating to Wyoming’s energy sector, is not only bad policy, but is unwise.”
According to the governor, the executive order has wide-ranging impacts on decisions made by virtually every federal agency, including the Departments of Interior, Commerce, Energy, Agriculture, Transportation, Environmental Protection, Defense, Homeland Security, Health and Human Services and the U.S. Treasury. Gordon says that it is a very real thumb on the scale against the activities that make Wyoming and the nation’s economy successful.
In addition to Louisiana and Wyoming, the following states joined in the lawsuit filed this morning in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, South Dakota, Texas and West Virginia.
A copy of the lawsuit may be found here.
