The Supreme Court denied a petition from 10 Republican-led states Thursday requesting it to block a key Biden administration climate policy.
The decision ensures that President Joe Biden’s so-called “social cost” of carbon policy — which assigns an estimated dollar value or cost to every ton of carbon emissions (CO2), according to the Government Accountability Office — can remain in place and be used for future federal permitting processes [by all federal agencies].
The high court rejected states’ April 27 petition without giving a reason or listing which justices opposed it, according to a one-page filing published on the Supreme Court docket.
The 10 states, led by Republican Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, had argued the policy was an example of executive overreach and required congressional approval in their lawsuit challenging it in April 2021.
“Joe Biden is bypassing our elected representatives to impose the Left’s radical, self-defeating green agenda on the American economy and people,” Landry said in a statement on April 22, 2021.
“This ‘social cost’ overreach revives an Obama-era scheme that unnecessarily forces the monetary cost of a global issue on American governments, businesses, and families.”
A federal judge for the District Court for the Western District of Louisiana sided with the coalition of Republican states, ruling on Feb. 11 that the policy would harm Americans.
But the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit nixed that ruling, saying the states lacked standing to challenge the policy.
Landry then appealed to the Supreme Court in an attempt to kill the policy for good.
Following the lower court ruling, the Department of the Interior (DOI) signaled it would delay or cancel oil and gas lease sales, saying it would be forced to reassess the program.
The agency then said it would resume planning for the program in response to the appeals panel ruling.
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Very soon Biden will be hitting the bottom of the Mariana Trench what as his polls sinking faster then a leaky Pram with a anvil in it
Yabba Dabba Do!
Biden’s executive actions on climate are clearly an over reach. There is good reason he can’t get the legislative action he wants so he is by passing the Congress and Senate. This is contrary to the way the Constitution says that our country is to function. Unfortunately the courts have become supportive of over reach.
Rather than legal technicalities, if the lawyers would argue the science they would have a sure win. For his use of carbon pricing Biden is certainly using the National Climate Assessment. This was based on an exaggeration of the climate model RCP 8.5. Today most knowledgeable climate change advocates acknowledge RCP 8.5 over states warming. It assumes population levels that are not going to happen. Even though the use of coal is drastically increasing, the model assumes even higher uses. It assumes a level of sensitivity to carbon dioxide that doesn’t exist. The National Climate Assessment assumes an increase in extreme weather events, which isn’t happening. This assessment gives zero credit to the large increase in agricultural production caused by higher CO2 levels. Though they might not be as comfortable with it as legal technicalities, the lawyers for the Republican-led states should argue the science.
Grrr…
Yet states sued to have CO2 treated as an EPA pollutant. The greens are just fascists who pretend to like trees.
Thanks to SCOTUS Americans will continue to pay higher energy prices for a phantom problem invented by globalists, for globalists and supporting their plans for one world government.