The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the Biden administration could continue to a...
to restrain the Biden administration from using the metric while their legal challenge was moving through the court system. The court denied that request in a one-line order, but did not rule of the legality of the metric itself.SCOTUS set to hear climate change case that may significantly alter Texas' oil and gas industry
When Biden came into office he instructed federal agencies to consider the cost of carbon emissions on society in their decision making, impacting everything from federal pollution standards to oil and gas leasing on federal lands and waters. After Republican states challenged that decision as a"power grab," a federal judge in Louisiana ruled in February the"social cost of carbon" calculation violated federal law, preventing the Biden administration from using it.
But that decision was put on hold by a federal appellate court in March, a decision that was confirmed by the Supreme Court Thursday. “These costs must be taken into account in creating climate policy," said Maya Golden-Krasner, deputy director of the Center for Biological Diversity’s Climate Law Institute."Now the Biden administration must get serious about fighting climate change by ending federal oil and gas leasing and stopping approvals for new fossil fuel infrastructure.”
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