{"id":1386030,"date":"2022-03-17T10:22:31","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386030"},"modified":"2022-03-17T10:36:21","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T14:36:21","slug":"appeals-court-reinstates-biden-climate-policy-opening-door-for-more-regulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-reinstates-biden-climate-policy-opening-door-for-more-regulation\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals Court Reinstates Biden Climate Policy, Opening Door For More Regulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fappeals-court-reinstates-biden-climate-policy-opening-door-for-more-regulation%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1386030&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A federal appeals panel nixed a lower court ruling late Wednesday, reinstating a key White House climate policy implemented shortly after President Joe Biden took office.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled that the case\u2019s plaintiffs, a <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.lawd.180392\/gov.uscourts.lawd.180392.1.0.pdf\">group of 10 Republican states<\/a>, lacked standing to challenge the policy, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scribd.com\/document\/565266316\/Fifth-Circuit-Ruling-3-16-22-Social-Cost-Policy\">according<\/a> to the decision published Wednesday evening. Biden implemented the policy \u2014 which determined there was a \u201csocial cost\u201d of continued carbon, nitrous oxide and methane emissions \u2014 via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2021\/01\/25\/2021-01765\/protecting-public-health-and-the-environment-and-restoring-science-to-tackle-the-climate-crisis\">executive action<\/a> days after he was sworn in 14 months ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSocial cost\u201d refers to the estimated dollar value incurred by the U.S. for every additional metric ton of carbon emitted into the environment, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gao.gov\/assets\/gao-20-254.pdf\">according<\/a> to the Government Accountability Office. The Republican states, led by Louisiana, argued in their April 2021 challenge that interim estimates factoring in such social costs would lead to burdensome regulations moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>But the appeals court ruled that the states aren\u2019t challenging \u201cany specific regulation or other agency action.\u201d Rather, they were arguing against the potential effects of Biden\u2019s policy. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/21\/joe-biden-administration-oil-gas-leases-delay-social-cost\/\">(RELATED: Biden Administration Quietly Delays, Stops Oil And Gas Leasing After Legal Defeat)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_7393309\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-7393309\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Workers place pipe into the ground on an oil drilling rig set up in the Permian Basin oil field on March 12 in Midland, Texas. (Joe Raedle\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe Government Defendants are likely to succeed on the merits because the Plaintiff States lack standing,\u201d the panel wrote on Wednesday. \u201cThe Plaintiff States\u2019 claimed injury is \u2018increased regulatory burdens\u2019 that may result from the consideration of SC-GHG, and the Interim Estimates specifically.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis injury, however, hardly meets the standards for Article III standing because it is, at this point, merely hypothetical,\u201d the decision said.<\/p>\n<p>In February, Judge James Cain, Jr. of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana came to the opposite conclusion, <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/02\/11\/federal-court-louisiana-joe-biden-social-cost-climate-change\/\">ruling<\/a> that the policy did cause significant harm to Americans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe strongly disagree with the 5th Circuit\u2019s opinion that we lack standing in Biden\u2019s latest attempt to inject the federal government into the everyday lives of Americans,\u201d a spokesperson for Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry told the Daily Caller News Foundation in an email. \u201cWe will petition for a rehearing en banc and will continue to stand up against this Administration\u2019s vast overreach.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Department of the Interior didn\u2019t immediately respond to a request for comment from the DCNF.<\/p>\n<p>Content created by The Daily Caller News Foundation is available without charge to any eligible news publisher that can provide a large audience. For licensing opportunities of our original content, please contact <a href=\"mailto:licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org\">licensing@dailycallernewsfoundation.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals panel nixed a lower court ruling late Wednesday, reinstating a key White House climate policy implemented shortly after President Joe Biden took office.The U.S. Court of Appeals<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1386030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386030","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1386030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1386030\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1386030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1386030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}