DOJ Urges High Court To Reject Case Targeting SCC ‘In the Abstract’

The Justice Department (DOJ) is urging the Supreme Court to decline Republican states’ request to review an appellate ruling rejecting their challenge to the Biden administration’s social cost of carbon (SCC) metric “in the abstract,” arguing the justices should agree with two appellate courts that found the petitioners lack standing to sue over the cost-benefit tool without it being tied to a specific policy. The Missouri-led coalition pursuing the litigation lacks “standing to challenge the interim [SCC] estimates in the...