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Not sure how much traction they will get with this, the Supreme Court already ruled that the EPA must regulate greenhouse gas emmissions. Realizing that they can't effectivly do this under the Clean Air Act in the same manner as other pollution they tried to change their policy for CO2 but again got told by the courts that they couldn't, the levels they have to regulate are specificly listed in the law.

I think if the states really wanted to get the EPA to not enforce CO2 emmisions as pollution, they should try to get the Clean Air Act amended rather than waste time sueing the EPA (which is not likely to have any actual effect, they are bound by a decision of the Supreme Court to regulate CO2 as pollution).

The optics of this look better for state AG's and Governors however as it casts them in a light of "standing up to big government", really I think it makes them look foolish as there are better ways they could approach this problem. Maybe I'm wrong though, YOMV.

"....they tried to change their policy for CO2 but again got told by the courts that they couldn't...."

Are you saying that a court has told EPA that they can't change the regulatory threshold for CO2 from 250 tons to 25,000 tons(or maybe 70,000 tons)?

They will get sued for such action, but I wasn't aware that a court had said they couldn't try.