CFACT working for you: Shutting the two back doors to Net Zero expenses
By
Frank Lasee
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July 29th, 2026
For years, activists pushing net-zero energy policy have lost where it counts. Voters reject higher power bills. Legislatures refuse to ban natural gas. Congress will not pass a carbon tax, so they moved to the two venues a determined minority can still control: local governments and the courtroom.
CFACT has set out to close both doors to the Green Left.
Working directly with legislative sponsors, we advanced two model bills before the American Legislative Exchange Council’s Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force. Both were received warmly by the task force members at their recent meeting in Orlando, Florida (July 22-24), who will now carry them home to their states.
The first, the Energy Producers and Consumers Protection Act, led by Rep. Reagan Paul, Maine, shuts the courthouse door. Across the country, trial lawyers and city attorneys have discovered that if you cannot regulate energy producers out of business, you can try to sue them out of business instead. There are about 40 climate lawsuits around the country right now.
They file public nuisance claims, climate superfund actions, and fraud suits that ask a single judge to blame one company for global atmospheric conditions, all over a product that was legal to make and sell.
https://www.cfact.org/2026/07/29/cfact-working-for-you-shutting-the-two-back-doors-to-net-zero-expenses/
