Full 5th Circuit Declines GOP States’ Request To Reinstate SCC Injunction

April 14, 2022
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit has unanimously declined a request from Republican states to uphold a lower court injunction that blocked federal agencies from using the social cost of carbon (SCC) metric, allowing the Biden administration to continue using its increased values in projecting the benefits of climate rules and other decisions. In an unsigned April 14 order in Louisiana v. Biden , the three-judge panel that had initially reversed the lower court’s injunction said that...


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