GOP States Renew Press On High Court To Block Carbon ‘Cost’ Metric

May 6, 2022
Missouri and nine additional Republican-led states are urging the Supreme Court to accept Louisiana’s request to set aside an appellate court’s decision allowing federal agencies to resume use of the social cost of carbon (SCC) metric to assess policies that affect greenhouse gases. The states in a May 2 amicus filing in Louisiana v. Biden seek to bolster the case that states have standing to challenge the Biden administration’s interim SCC estimates, which largely mirror the approach to the...


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