Biden Fails to Revive Cost of Carbon Estimates Pending Appeal

The Biden administration can’t use interim estimates on the social costs of certain greenhouse gases pending the government’s appeal in the Fifth Circuit, a Louisiana federal court ruled.

The federal government “repeatedly insisted” that it doesn’t rely on the estimates to justify administrative actions, according to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana. But the court “believes without a doubt” that the estimates were being used, and are still in use, to justify actions that will “artificially increase costs” and “increase regulatory burdens” on states, according to the ruling.

The federal government argued the court’s previous order ...