U.S. Seeks to Toss Suit by Some States Over Greenhouse-Gas Costs
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The Biden administration asked a federal judge to throw out a lawsuit by more than a dozen Republican-led states seeking to block the U.S. government from strengthening the way it calculates the cost of greenhouse gas emissions.
The suit isn’t valid because the states haven’t yet been harmed by changes in the so-called social cost of emitting carbon dioxide, methane and other gases, which the government uses in analyzing the impact of policy decisions and actions, the Justice Department said in a June 4 filing in federal court in Missouri.