Bluegrass Times

FRANKFORT, Ky. – Attorney General Daniel Cameron challenges President Biden’s unlawful attempt to backdoor new and unnecessary environmental regulations.

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has long published “Green Guides” as valuable roadmaps to help businesses avoid misleading environmental claims and to protect consumers from such deception. The guides have never had the full force and effect of law.

But nowFTC Green Guides Comment.pdf (ky.gov)nvert these Green Guides into formal regulation, empowering the FTC to advance radical green priorities at the expense of Kentuckians and businesses. The proposed changes would also redefine common words such as “recycling” and “recyclable,” which could lead to increased costs and the loss of billions of dollars in recycling investments. 

“Changing the meaning of recycling to fit an ideological agenda is absurd,” said Attorney General Cameron. “The FTC must stick to protecting consumers and reject the notion that it has any authority to regulate the environment.”

The 16-state coalition filed comments urging the FTC to abandon the requested changes, arguing that that they are unnecessary. The attorneys general point out that the Green Guides have allowed environmental policymaking to take place where it belongs—with states and with federal agencies actually charged by law to safeguard the environment.

The coalition explains that the proposed changes “would undermine the efforts of many States to address important marketing and environmental issues, including encouraging the development of recycling technology. It is bad policy, unlawful, and warrants rejection.”

Attorney General Cameron joined the Indiana-led comments alongside the attorneys general of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, South Carolina, Texas, and Utah.

Read the coalition’s comments here.

Original source can be found here.