Posted on 04/06/2023 6:21:52 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A lawsuit that Louisiana and other Republican-leaning states filed challenging figures the Biden administration uses to calculate damages from greenhouse gasses was dismissed Wednesday by a federal appeals court.
The unanimous decision by three judges on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans was the latest defeat for states challenging the Biden “cost of carbon” policy. It leaves the administration to continue using a damage cost estimate of about $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions as it develops environmental regulations. That estimate is under review by the administration and could increase.
The Biden cost estimate had been used during former President Barack Obama’s administration. President Joe Biden restored it on his first day in office after the administration of former President Donald Trump had reduced the figure to about $7 or less per ton.
On Thursday the appeals court dismissed the case, saying the challenging states had no standing to sue because they had not shown that the regulations caused the economic harms their lawsuit cited.
The $51 per ton estimate was established in 2016 and used to justify major rules such as the Clean Power Plan — former President Barack Obama’s signature effort to address climate change by tightening emissions standards from coal-fired power plants — and separate rules imposing tougher vehicle emission standards. However, the Clean Power Plan never took effect after being blocked by federal courts.
Now, the administration is reviewing the $51 per ton estimate. The Environmental Protection Agency in September proposed a cost roughly four times higher than the Obama figure.
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“It leaves the administration to continue using a damage cost estimate of about $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions “
So does that mean they will charge John Kerry $51 per ton of CO2 his private jet spews out every time he goes somewhere?
the EPA should be abolished
I wish governors would band together and take Biden to court for his disastrous, dangerous lack of border policy that is resulting in children being forced into prostitution
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He is supposed to work to keep people safe, and he is clearly failing to do so, and people and kids are suffering terribly for it and Noone on the left gives a crap
No, they will charge us.
The Plaintiff States had no standing and therefore the case was dismissed. The States were unable to articulate a specific tenable harm by Executive Order.
Damn Feral “judgies” dismiss everything and anything submitted by REAL AMERICANS to their chickensh*t courts. If you’re not a far-left dung beetle, you’re dismissed.
I figured it had to be something like that.
Texas had "no standing" to sue over the 2020 election for a similar reason, but look at the country now - economic harm claims vindicated. And too late to sue as the steal is a fait accompli.
If a lawsuit does not show harm it has no standing. It should be dismissed.
Reformulate and resubmit. Surely there is a La company put down directly because of the regulation. There is your harm.
Judges are lawyers. Poor at maths. Speak to them as if they are your 6 year old kid.
Bull.
Cold and Dark and Death are our friends!
Total rot.
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