After High Court Decision, 8th Circuit Ponders State Standing In SCC Suit

June 16, 2022
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 8th Circuit is again weighing whether Republican-led states have standing to challenge the Biden administration’s social cost of carbon (SCC) metric, even after the Supreme Court recently refused to set aside a 5th Circuit decision that was strongly skeptical of states’ standing in a similar suit. In the 8th Circuit case, Missouri, et al. v. Biden , the states allege the White House violated the Administrative Procedure Act (APA)...


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