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Court strikes down Biden rule requiring states and cities to set climate targets for transportation
Rachel Frazin
Thu, 28 March 2024 at 3:01 pm
Judge James Hendrix, a former President Trump appointee, agreed with the Republican-led states that sued over the rule that the Biden administration did not have the authority to require them to set the targets.
Hendrix argued that the administration was not authorized under law to include environmental benchmarks in states’ assessment of highway “performance.”
He wrote that the law referring to the “performance of the Interstate/National Highway Systems” refers to “the infrastructure’s effectiveness in facilitating travel, commerce, and national defense—not environmental outputs of vehicles using the systems.”
The rule, from the Federal Highway Administration, required state and local transit authorities to set targets for decreasing planet-warming emissions and report on its progress. It also set up a national framework for measuring and reporting transportation-related emissions.
More here: https://sg.news.yahoo.com/court-strikes-down-biden-rule-220109030.html
AOC will be taking the day off with cramping butthurt.