States Fail to Revive Suit Over Biden Carbon Cost Estimates (1)

Missouri and a dozen other states must wait until an agency uses the Biden administration’s interim estimates on the costs of greenhouse gases before alleging those estimates caused them harm, a federal appeals court affirmed Friday.

The states failed to convince the US Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to revive their lawsuit challenging the estimates on the social costs of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide. Their case followed a similar challenge by Louisiana, Alabama, and eight others was dealt a setback when the US Supreme Court denied their bid to block use of the estimates.

The states ...