Court ruling on social cost of carbon upends Biden’s climate plans, administration warns - The Washington Post

…President Biden last year directed federal agencies to apply an interim social cost of carbon of $51 per ton — the figure used under Barack Obama — while his administration weighed whether to raise it to as high as $125 per ton. Under Donald Trump, that figure had fallen as low as $1 per ton, as his appointees recalculated the impacts of climate change on present and future generations.
 

But a coalition of 10 Republican attorneys general sued over the presidential directive, arguing that Biden lacked the authority to raise the climate metric under the Constitution, which gives that power solely to Congress. The Louisiana federal judge, a Trump appointee, agreed…
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2022/02/21/social-cost-of-carbon-biden/