A federal judge on Friday blocked for now the Biden administration from restoring Obama-era values for calculating the cost of climate change in the government's permitting, investment and regulatory decisions.
The preliminary ruling by a U.S. District Court judge in Louisiana is a blow to President Joe Biden's efforts to factor the risks of climate change into federal decision-making.
In his order, Judge James Cain said Biden lacked the authority to make such a substantial change through executive order and violated federal law by imposing new rules without seeking public comment.
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