H/T Climate Change Dispatch
An ‘abuse of power’ challenge. The AGs claim Biden’s climate policies are a costly and ‘massive expansion’ of regulations.
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A group of Republican state attorneys general alleged in a federal lawsuit filed Monday that President Joe Biden’s climate policies are a major overreach and could damage their states’ economies, reports The Daily Caller.
The 12-state coalition said Biden overstepped his constitutional authority by declaring there were “social costs” of continued greenhouse gas emissions in a Jan. 20 executive order.
The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District Court of Missouri, argued that assigning such costs is a “quintessentially legislative action” that falls within Congress’ authority.
“The Biden Administration’s calculation of ‘social costs’ would justify imposing trillions of dollars in regulatory costs on the American economy every year to offset these supposed costs,” the lawsuit said.
Biden’s executive action determined that there was a “social cost” of continued carbon, nitrous oxide, and methane emissions.
“Social cost” refers to the estimated dollar value incurred by the U.S. for every additional metric ton of carbon emitted into the environment, according to the Government Accountability Office.
The lawsuit said Biden’s executive order enables regulatory agencies to place restrictions on nearly every aspect of Americans’ lives in order to cut back on greenhouse gas emissions.
Potential regulations could affect cars, refrigerators, homes, food purchases, and electric bills.
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the Philippines went all in for this incompetent power. They’ve build massive solar panel fields. I expect between the salt air and the median daytime temperature of 85 degrees those hundreds of millions of dollars of panels will soon be junk.
The salesman and the kickback receivers in government are all sitting on fat bank accounts now so they don’t care. Now America is going all in for windmills and solar installations. I’ll have to get a natgas generator so the pipes don’t freeze at 10F below when the windmills quit and the batteries are depleted.
What ever happened to our rational world?
Same tactic as Democrat AGs used in the Trump years, to try and impose their climate agendas outside of the political process.
There are two fundamental flaws in Biden’s claims. First, every citizen in the US uses fossil fuels to a more or less similar extent. Second, the externalities are therefore borne by and large by those users. Thus there is not a group of people suffering a cost who are not also the beneficiaries of a lower cost because externalities are excluded. There is therefore no justification for “social cost” charges.
This is why we have absurd claims about “climate justice” and that the poor suffer more from climate change than the wealthy. But the evidence for that is weak to say the least.