STATE CAPITOL, PHOENIX – State Representative David Marshall, Chairman of the House Public Safety & Law Enforcement Committee, and State Representative Ralph Heap, Vice Chairman of the House Health & Human Services Committee, have introduced HB 2267, calling all new wind and solar projects in the state a “public nuisance” and requiring the Attorney General to take immediate action to abate and enjoin them.

With respect to the bill, Representatives Marshall and Heap said the following:

“The Attorney General has been traveling the state on taxpayer money, attacking local industries, and threatening ‘public nuisance’ lawsuits against local job creators while overlooking large-scale renewable energy projects like wind and solar that received over $2.3 billion in ratepayer funds from the Attorney General while she served as commissioner on the Arizona Corporation Commission.

 While the Attorney General has been happy to publicize her frivolous lawsuits and defame local farms and dairies, proposed mines, and planned recycling plants, the Attorney General has said nothing about the big wind and solar projects that have been coming in and interfering with the comfortable enjoyment of life and property in rural Arizona.

 Where was the Attorney General when residents opposed massive wind farms in Apache County?

 Where was the Attorney General when local communities objected to massive solar farms in Pinal County?

 The Attorney General took an oath to enforce the law faithfully and impartially—not to weaponize it against the industries and employers that she doesn’t like. If the Attorney General won’t act against this public nuisance, the Arizona Legislature and Governor must compel her.

 Arizonans don’t want large-scale renewable energy projects in their backyards. It’s time the Attorney General treats large-scale wind and solar farms like the public nuisance they are and takes immediate action to abate and enjoin them, as HB 2267 requires.”