Emboldened by President Trump, West Virginia and other states are challenging a law that makes corporate polluters pay for past emissions.

The Empire State charges energy companies for past climate emissions. West Virginia and other states want to do away with the law.

West Virginia and nearly two dozen other states sued New York over plans to charge fossil fuel companies $75 billion for climate change damage, saying the measure is an unconstitutional “slippery slope.

New York is being sued by 22 other US states who say its climate change damage fund may 'cause an energy crisis'. View on euronews

Twenty-two states sued New York state on Thursday, contending that a new law forcing a small group of major energy producers to pay $75 billion into a fund to cover climate change damage is unconstitutional.