Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma President Brook A. Simmons issued the following statement in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to overrule the Court’s 1984 decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council, which gave rise to the doctrine known as the Chevron deference. Under that doctrine, if Congress has not directly addressed the question at the center of a dispute, a court was required to uphold a federal agency’s interpretation of the statute:

“Today, the American people won a huge victory against a massive, unaccountable federal bureaucracy that has for decades stifled U.S. innovation, destroyed jobs, and made every product and service more expensive. This is a big win for Oklahoma, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry, and taxpayers from coast to coast.”

ABOUT THE PETROLEUM ALLIANCE – The Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma is the only trade association in Oklahoma that represents every segment of the oil and natural gas industry, representing more than 1,500 individual and member companies engaged in the upstream, midstream and downstream sectors of the state’s defining industry.