High Court Declines Review In GOP States’ Challenge To SCC Metric

The Supreme Court has declined to review Republican-led states’ case challenging the Biden administration’s social cost of carbon (SCC) metric, letting stand a second appellate court decision that the states lack standing to sue over the cost-benefit review tool as a facial matter, without it being applied to a particular policy. The justices in an Oct. 10 order did not elaborate on their decision to deny a writ of certiorari in the litigation, Missouri, et al. v. Biden, et...