US judge strikes down Biden climate damage cost estimate
Source: AP
By MATTHEW BROWN, MATTHEW DALY and KEVIN McGILL
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday blocked the Biden administration’s attempt to put greater emphasis on potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries.
U.S. District Judge James Cain of the Western District of Louisiana sided with Republican attorneys general who said the administration’s action to raise the cost estimate of carbon emissions threatened to drive up energy costs while decreasing state revenues from energy production. The judge issued an injunction that bars the Biden administration from using the higher cost estimate, which puts a dollar value on damages caused by every additional ton of greenhouse gases emitted into the atmosphere.
President Joe Biden on his first day in office restored the climate cost estimate to about $51 per ton of carbon dioxide emissions after the Trump administration had reduced the figure to about $7 per ton. Former President Donald Trump’s estimate included only damages felt in the U.S. versus the global damages captured under the higher estimate.
The Biden administration’s revival of a higher figure initially set under the Obama administration would be used to make future rules for oil and gas drilling, automobiles, and other industries. Using a higher cost estimate would help justify reductions in planet-warming emissions by making the benefits more likely to outweigh the expenses of complying with new rules.
FILE - President Joe Biden speaks during the "Accelerating Clean Technology Innovation and Deployment" event at the COP26 U.N. Climate Summit, Nov. 2, 2021, in Glasgow, Scotland. A federal judge in Louisiana on Friday, Feb. 11, 2022, blocked the Biden administration's move to increase the government's cost estimate of future damages caused by greenhouse gas emissions, a key component of federal rules for oil and gas drilling, automobiles and other industries. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, Pool, File)
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Can't fed courts be moved? 
They will fight all green regulatory attempts from this administration, and will support whatever trumpcult candidates they can buy.
Thanks for this post, Steve.
We can expect many more such decisions as climate policy and the fate of the biosphere approach the Sacred Nexus Of Teh Money.
Judge James D. Cain, Jr.
United States District Judge for the Western District of Louisiana.
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James David Cain, Jr. is a judge on the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. On August 28, 2018, President Donald Trump (R) nominated Cain to a seat on this court.[1] The U.S. Senate confirmed Cain on June 19, 2019, by a vote of 77-21.[2] He received commission on June 25, 2019.[3] To see a full list of judges appointed by Donald Trump, click here.
The United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana is one of 94 U.S. district courts. They are the general trial courts of the United States federal courts. To learn more about the court, click here.
Cain was a founding member and partner of the law firm Loftin, Cain & LeBlanc, LLC, in Lake Charles, Louisiana, from 2007 to 2019.[4]
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