A Federal Judge blocks the Biden administration’s climate change initiatives in efforts to factor the risks of climate change into federal decision-making.
The administration is blocked from “from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of climate change in the government’s permitting, investment and regulatory decisions.”
According to U.S. District Judge James Cain, Biden’s initiative could inflict harms that warrant a preliminary injunction.
“Plaintiff States have sufficiently identified the kinds of harms to support injunctive relief. Moreover, the Court finds that the Plaintiff States have made a clear showing of an injury-in-fact, and that such injury ‘cannot be undone through monetary remedies.’” Cain claimed.
The ruling also stated that “The Court agrees that the public interest and balance of equities weigh heavily in favor of granting a preliminary injunction.”
The decision came after climate activists and Republican challengers slammed Biden for “trying to burden red states with a calculation based on global interests.”
According to Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry ®, “Biden’s executive order was an attempt by the government to take over and tax the people based on winners and losers chosen by the government.”
A climate change activist, Michael Greenstone, also added that the judge’s ruling “removes all the teeth from climate regulations.”
Cain justified the preliminary injunction. According to him, the suing states had shown that the change would harm their “ability to purchase affordable energy.”
