Several GOP-led states have challenged factoring in economic cost of climate change in projects and rulemakings.
President Biden reacts at COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, last year. Photo: Paul Ellis - Pool/Getty Images)of calculating climate change costs in government decisions.The 5th U.S.
result from the consideration" of the social cost of greenhouse gases," wrote Judges Leslie Southwick, a George W. Bush appointee, and James Graves and Gregg Costa, both Barack Obama appointees, in their unanimous ruling. "This injury, however, hardly meets the standards for [constitutional] standing because it is, at this point, merely hypothetical," they continued.
"The Plaintiff States' claims are based on a generalized grievance of the use of Interim Estimates in cost-benefit analyses of regulations and agency action," according to the judges' opinion. "But their claimed injury does not stem from the Interim Estimates themselves, it stems from any forthcoming, speculative, and unknown regulation that may place increased burdens on them and may result."Read the ruling in full,
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