The U.S. Justice Department asked a judge Monday to rule in its favor in an ongoing lawsuit over Vermont’s law that requires polluters to pay for their carbon emissions, called the Climate Superfund Act.

Attorneys from the department’s Environment and Natural Resources Division filed a motion for summary judgment on the lawsuit it first brought in May in U.S. District Court in Burlington.

In August, the state and a pair of intervening nonprofits, the Conservation Law Foundation and the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont, asked the judge to dismiss the lawsuit.

“The Court should deny the motions to dismiss, grant the United States’ motion for summary judgment, declare the Superfund Act unconstitutional and unenforceable, and permanently enjoin Defendants from taking an

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