Yesterday, Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel filed a motion to stay (PDF) the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) third arbitrary and illegal order to stop the planned retirement of Consumers Energy’s J.H. Campbell coal-fired power plant in West Olive, Michigan. The motion seeks to immediately halt DOE’s order, which the Attorney General asserts is based on an outdated reliability assessment report to fabricate the emergency.
“DOE is using outdated information to fabricate an emergency, despite the fact that the truth is publicly available for everyone to see,” Nessel said. “DOE must end its unlawful tactics to keep this coal plant running when it has already cost millions upon millions of dollars. My office will continue to fight back against these arbitrary orders and ensure residents aren’t forced to foot the bill for these unreasonable costs.”