ATTORNEY GENERAL BONTA CALLS FOR DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TO WITHDRAW PROPOSED SUNSET RULE

SACRAMENTO, Calif., June 30 -- The California Attorney General issued the following press release:

OAKLAND-California Attorney General Rob Bonta, alongside 13 attorneys general nationwide, submitted comments opposing the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Sunset Rule, which would add one-or five-year termination dates to over 500 DOE regulations as well as many future DOE rules. This proposal could create regulatory instability for businesses and states by making hundreds of regulations covering numerous different issues ineffective. In the comment letters, Attorney General Bonta and the coalition call out DOE'sfailure to provide any explanation for selecting these regulations or the effect of sunsetting them, in violation of legal requirem...