Attorney General J.B. McCuskey is joining other Republican states in opposing a New York law that could affect West Virginia’s coal and natural gas industry. In his first press conference in the law library at the Attorney General’s Office in the State Capitol Building on Thursday,

New York state was sued on Thursday over a new law requiring fossil fuel companies to contribute $75 billion over 25 years into a state fund that will pay for damage caused by climate change, West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey said.