Group Sues to End N.Y.'s Role in Regional Cap-and-Trade - NYTimes.com

Members of Americans for Prosperity, a group founded and largely financed by oil industry interests, filed a lawsuit this week seeking to end New York State’s participation in the 10-state Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

The suit, filed on Monday in state Supreme Court in Albany against Gov. Andrew Cuomo and two state agencies, asserts that the multistate cap-and-trade system imposes costs on electric utilities that are then passed on to ratepayers in what amounts to an illegal tax. The suit charges that such “coercive taxes” were illegally levied without approval from the state legislature.

Another AGW Icon Bites The Dust | Real Science

First Lake Powell, and now this. It is too much for any alarmist to bear.