EPA Urged to Review Car Rules After Climate Metric Court Loss

The Competitive Enterprise Institute is pushing the EPA to reconsider its new vehicle emission standards less than a week after a Louisiana federal court struck down the rule’s underlying carbon metric.

The D.C.-based think tank on Tuesday filed a request asking the Environmental Protection Agency to freeze and review the still-unfinalized greenhouse gas emission standards for light-duty vehicles in light of a Feb. 11 court order that scrapped the use of an interim social cost of carbon estimate.

That estimate—which measures the costs of impacts that come from releasing carbon—was used to craft President Joe Biden’s car rules. The standards ...