Herbert Slatery

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=<div>=AG 180 DACA:
In July 2017, Texas Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Paxton" title="Ken Paxton" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Ken Paxton</a> led a group of Republican Attorneys General from nine other states, including Marshall, plus Idaho Governor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butch_Otter" title="Butch Otter" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Butch Otter</a>, in threatening the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J.Trump" class="mw-redirect" title="Donald J. Trump" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Donald J. Trump</a>administration that they would litigate if the president did not terminate the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deferred_Action_for_Childhood_Arrivals" title="Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a> (DACA) policy that had been put into place by president <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Barack Obama</a>. Tennessee Attorney General <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_Slatery" title="Herbert Slatery" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Herbert H. Slatery, III</a> subsequently reversed his position and withdrew his participation from the proposed suit on August 31st. Slatery went further to urge passage of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DREAM_Act" title="DREAM Act" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">DREAM Act</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Marshall(politician)#cite_note-5" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[5]</a><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Marshall(politician)#cite_note-6" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[6]</a> The other Attorneys General who joined in making the threats against Trump included <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lawrence_Wasden" title="Lawrence Wasden" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Lawrence Wasden</a> of Idaho, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Rutledge" title="Leslie Rutledge" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Leslie Rutledge</a> of Arkansas, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Schmidt" title="Derek Schmidt" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Derek Schmidt</a> of Kansas, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeff_Landry" title="Jeff Landry" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Jeff Landry</a> of Louisiana, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Peterson(politician)" title="Doug Peterson (politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Doug Peterson</a> of Nebraska, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Wilson(South_Carolina_politician)" title="Alan Wilson (South Carolina politician)" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Alan Wilson</a> of South Carolina, and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Morrisey" title="Patrick Morrisey" style="background-image: none; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; text-decoration-line: none;">Patrick Morrisey</a> of West Virginia.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Marshall(politician)#cite_note-7" style="text-decoration-line: none; background: none;">[7]</a></div><div>==
Across the Republican-controlled South, state attorneys general are

suing the the Obama administration to stop the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency from imposing carbon limits on coal-fired power plants

designed to help limit global warming.

But not in Tennessee.

Despite complaints from GOP lawmakers opposed to the new EPA rules,

Tennessee Attorney General Herbert Slatery opted not to join in a legal

challenge to the new carbon restrictions on power plants being pushed in

27 other states, including nearly all of Tennessee's neighbors.

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Critics of the new pollution controls contend the EPA overstepped its

authority and warn the new rules will push up electricity rates as

utilities are forced to replace cheaper coal-fired generation with lower

carbon-producing alternative power sources. Paul Bailey, senior vice

president of the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity,

estimates the new EPA rules will cost utilities more than $300 billion,

raise Tennessee power rates 10 to 15 percent a year "and have no impact

on global warming" since most carbon comes from other sources around the

world.

But Tennessee's primary power provider, the Tennessee Valley

Authority, has already taken most of the steps required to meet the new

carbon controls. In its power plan for the future, TVA estimates it can

meet the new EPA standards and still raise rates less than in the

overall pace of inflation — and less than its average increase over the

past couple of decades.

"Investments already made by our ratepayers for available gas and

renewable generation, combined with energy efficiency, places TVA's

diversified portfolio in a position to meet these rules," John Myers,

director of policy and regulatory affairs for TVA, told a legislative

committee in Nashville last week.

Since 2005, TVA has already cut its carbon emissions by 30 percent

and the federal utility expects to have cut such emissions by 40 percent

by 2020. TVA has or soon plans to shut down more than half of the 59

coal-fired generators it once operated through the additions of new

nuclear, natural gas, solar, wind and hydro generation.

Harlow Sumerford, communications director for the Tennessee Attorney

General, said concerns about EPA's initial carbon control regulations

"have been alleviated in the final rule" by allowing TVA to count its

new Watts Bar Unit 2 reactor toward its carbon reduction targets and by

extending the enforcement date for the new rules by another couple of

years.

"We will continue to monitor the situation, as well as consult with

impacted parties," Sumerford said, but Slatery decided against joining

the lawsuit by Tuesday's filing deadline for such challenges.

That decision has upset many of the 59 legislators who signed a letter in August asking Slatery to join the lawsuit against EPA.

State Sen. Janice Bowling, R-Tullahoma, who authored the letter, said

Tuesday she is "very disappointed" that Tennessee "is not doing the

right thing" by challenging what she calls "junk science."

"Carbon dioxide is a colorless, odorless gas vital to life on earth,"

she said. "To act like we're going to be good soldiers to comply with

something that is actually going to cost over $300 billion is not good

public service, it does not help the environment ,and it certainly

doesn't help businesses or the people of Tennessee."

State Sen. Mike Bell, R-Riceville, called the EPA rules "an overreach

of the federal government" and urged Slatery to reconsider and join the

fight against the new rules to avoid higher power rates for businesses

and consumers.

The lawmakers also said they wish that Tennessee's Environment and

Conservation Commissioner Bob Martineau had not flown to Paris this

month for the United Nations climate change conference. His trip was

paid for by the Climate Action Reserve and not state taxpayers,

according to TDEC spokeswoman Kelly Brockman.

"He still shouldn't have gone and participated in an international

event where we committed to a plan that will make power rates more

costly," Bowling said.

But Myers said TVA expects annual rate increases of only a fraction

of what critics claim. He said TVA rates should rise about 1.5 percent a

year in the next decade, comparable to what it has raised rates for the

past couple of years since Bill Johnson took over as TVA's CEO.

Stephen Smith, executive director for the Southern Alliance for Clean

Energy in Knoxville, said conservation incentives in TVA's future power

plans should actually reduce consumer bills by $85 a year even if power

rates go up since consumption should decline.

"Local governments have already experienced major dividends from investments in energy conservation," he said.

Smith said Memphis cut its energy use at its downtown city and county

building by nearly 50 percent thanks to energy efficiency retrofits and

Knoxville cut its street light energy use by $250,000 a year through

installation of LED streetlights.

But business groups are more wary about the new EPA rules and their costs....
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Herbert H. Slatery III was sworn in as

the Attorney General and Reporter for the State of Tennessee on October

1, 2014. He was appointed by the Supreme Court to serve an eight-year

term. 

Prior to his appointment as Attorney General and Reporter, General Slatery served

as Counsel to Governor Bill Haslam from 2011-2014. In addition to

providing legal advice to the Governor, he advised on judicial

appointments, coordinated the legal affairs of the executive branch for

the Governor, assisted in the development and implementation of

legislation, and reviewed requests for executive clemency and

extradition. 

Before joining the Haslam Administration, General Slatery was

in private practice in Knoxville, Tennessee with Egerton, McAfee,

Armistead & Davis, P.C., for whom he served as President from 1998

-2007, and Chairman from 2008 through January, 2011. He practiced in the

areas of finance (both private and local government), corporate

governance, capital formation, real estate, and acquisitions and sales

of businesses. 

General Slatery is

a Knoxville native. He holds a bachelor's degree from the University of

Virginia and law degree from the University of Tennessee. He and his

wife, Cary, have two children, Frances and Harrison, who live in

Knoxville.
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