West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey has announced a multi-state lawsuit against a recently signed law in New York. New York’s Climate Superfund Act punishes fossil fuel companies for past greenhouse gas emissions,

West Virginia Attorney General JB McCuskey said Thursday he is leading a coalition of 22 attorneys general in a lawsuit challenging New York State's Climate Superfund Act, a recently signed state law that McCuskey said attack's America's energy suppliers.

A recently enacted New York law, the New York Climate Superfund Act, seeking to collect $75 billion from fossil fuel companies — including those in other states — for past greenhouse gas emissions believed to have caused damage from climate change is being challenged in court by West Virginia Attorney General John "JB" McCuskey,

The Climate Change Superfund Law, which the lawsuit aims to block, would require the largest fossil fuel companies to pay a combined $75 billion over 25 years to cover a portion of the damage wrought by climate change on New York State.

West Virginia and nearly two dozen other states are suing to block a New York climate law that requires fossil fuel companies to pay $75 billion over 25 years to mitigate damage from future climate disasters in the state,