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[Biden loses agin...] Federal court strikes down Biden's climate rule for states

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climate-rule-for-states

A federal district court has overturned the Biden administration's climate 
rule that required states to track and set reduction goals for greenhouse 
gas emissions from vehicles on highways.

In a sweeping judgment late Monday, Judge Benjamin Beaton of the U.S. 
District Court for the Western District of Kentucky ordered the Federal 
Highway Administration to stand down on the rules, which the agency 
finalized in November. The ruling represents a major victory for the State 
of Kentucky, which challenged the regulations alongside 21 other states.

"President Biden’s radical environmental agenda has lost touch with 
reality, and Kentucky families, farmers and workers are paying the price," 
Republican state Attorney General Russell Coleman said on Tuesday. "Like 
all Americans, Kentuckians love our trucks, cars and vans. With this 
victory in court, we’re slamming the brakes on the Biden administration’s 
politics that make no sense in the commonwealth."

Kentucky filed the lawsuit in December, one month after the FHWA finalized 
the regulations. According to the lawsuit, the FHWA overstepped its legal 
authority in attempting to regulate vehicle emissions since it attempted 
to force states to implement federal regulations.

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Beaton agreed in his ruling, declaring that the regulations exceed the 
FHWA's statutory authority and are "arbitrary and capricious." Instead of 
granting plaintiff states' motion for preliminary injunction – which would 
have blocked the rule during litigation – he granted their motion for 
summary judgment, vacating the rule immediately.

"If Congress did purport to give the Administrator authority to set state 
policy, that would raise a different and arguably bigger problem," Beaton 
wrote in his ruling. "Modern constitutional doctrine allows Congress to 
demand much from states, but it cannot commandeer or coerce the apparatus 
of state governments into mere administrative districts of the federal 
government."

"If the Administrator were allowed to shove national greenhouse-gas policy 
into the mouths of uncooperative state Departments of Transportation, this 
would corrupt the separation of sovereigns central to our lasting and 
vibrant system of federalism," he continued. "Neither the Constitution nor 
the Administrative Procedure Act authorizes administrative ventriloquism."

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STOVES

After FHWA finalized the rules on Nov. 22, the agency said the action 
supports President Biden’s "whole-of-government approach" of reducing 
carbon emissions by 50% by 2030. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg 
said at the time that the regulations provide states with the flexibility 
to set their own climate targets.

But the 22 states that challenged the action in court, in addition to 
industry groups such as the American Road & Transportation Builders 
Association, argued the regulations did the opposite, restricting state 
efforts and mandating they conform with federal efforts.

In addition, the ruling Monday comes shortly after a federal court in 
Texas similarly struck down the regulations. In that case, Texas had filed 
a lawsuit as the sole plaintiff.

"The Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration 
remain committed to supporting the Biden-Harris administration’s climate 
goals of cutting carbon pollution in half by 2030 and achieving net-zero 
emissions by 2050," an FHWA spokesperson told Fox News Digital. "We are 
reviewing the court’s decision and determining next steps."


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