
Federal appeals court rules Biden administration can use key climate metric
CNN
A federal appellate court has ruled the Biden administration can once again factor the cost of greenhouse gas emissions into its decision-making on oil and gas leases and other environmental regulations.
On Wednesday, the 5th US Circuit Court of Appeals stayed a Louisiana federal judge's injunction that prevented the Biden administration from using a metric estimating the societal cost of carbon emissions in its federal climate and environmental regulations.
The administration can now use what's known as the "social cost of carbon" in decisions around oil and gas drilling on public land or in rules governing fossil fuel emissions.

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