Supreme Court allows Biden administration to continue counting the costs of planet-warming emissions
Source: CNN
Supreme Court allows Biden administration to continue counting the costs of planet-warming emissions, for now
(CNN)The Supreme Court will allow the Biden administration to continue to use a metric that estimates the real-world cost of the climate crisis while legal challenges play out. The court's order is a loss for Republican-led states that argued in part that the estimates were "speculative."
The justices issued a one-line order and there were no noted dissents.
The metric, known as "the social cost of carbon," uses economic models to assign a cost to planet-warming carbon dioxide emissions to help quantify the economic harm caused by the climate crisis, including sea level rise, more destructive hurricanes, extreme wildfire seasons and flooding.
It is used in federal rules that regulate carbon emissions, or in decisions from the Department of Interior around oil and gas drilling on federal lands.
Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/26/politics/supreme-court-social-cost-of-carbon-ruling-climate/index.html
progree
(10,889 posts)For a regular natural gas power plant that comes to 2.8 cents/KWH = $28/MWH ... and so ...
muriel_volestrangler
(101,262 posts)It is, to them, inconceivable that the "preferred policy outcomes" really are preventing "global harms to society from greenhouse gas emissions" - or they think they can convince their gullible voters of that, anyway. They, or the voters, are stuck in the conspiratorial mindset of "Democrats do everything for nefarious purposes". At least the Supreme Court is still willing to consider that preventing harm is a valid reason for a policy.
OldBaldy1701E
(5,082 posts)and ran on a certain policy and vision is now *GASP* actually trying to implement that policy? Perish the thought!
Will we be doing this every single time they enact laws that actually are power and money grabs? I wish we would. I would love to watch rethug governors and legislatures explaining how their new law that gives them money and power but removes the ability to even question them over it is not the exact same thing. And, we should do it for every single stupid greedy law they enact. Tie up every single piece of legislation in the courts. If they can do it, so can we.
paleotn
(17,876 posts)keep half of Louisiana from becoming a remake of Waterworld? Seems they love money more than their children and grandchildren. Well, they do love their gunz too so I suppose that makes sense in some bizarre way.
Ironically, some of the red states supporting the suit will suffer far more from climate change than the blue states in the north. At present trend, they'll become nearly uninhabitable by mid to end century.
SouthernDem4ever
(6,617 posts)they should have just rejected the case entirely.