Republican State AGs Challenge Biden’s Interim Carbon ‘Cost’ Values

The Republican attorneys general (AGs) from 12 states are challenging the constitutionality and legality of the Biden administration’s interim social cost of carbon (SCC) metrics that will be used to calculate the benefits of climate change rules, signaling that the AGs plan to challenge much of the administration’s climate change agenda. In a March 8 suit filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri, the AGs charge that the action exceeds the administration’s constitutional authority by...