On Monday (March 8), President Joe Biden was sued by 12 Republican state attorneys general over an executive order related to climate change because of its potential to severely impact the states’ economies.
The lawsuit seeks to challenge Biden’s Executive Order 13990, which the White House says is intended to “address the climate crisis. The states allege that the Biden Administration does not have sufficient authority to impose “social costs of greenhouse gases” in the executive order, which has increased state spending in this area.
The lawsuit was filed in federal court in the Eastern District of Missouri by Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt. The attorneys general of 11 states, including Arkansas, Arizona, Indiana, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee and Utah, joined the lawsuit.
Manufacturing, agriculture and energy production are vital to Missouri’s economy, and thousands of hard-working Missourians work in that field,” Schmidt said in a statement. Under this executive order, which President Biden has no authority to issue, these hard-working people who have lived in Missouri for generations could be left in the dust.”
The lawsuit argues that Biden’s order could cost the U.S. economy trillions of dollars, while the executive order also threatens the constitutional separation of powers.
“In practice, this enormous overhead will be equally used to justify a vast expansion of federal regulatory power that will invade every aspect of American Life, from cars, refrigerators and homes to groceries and electricity bills,” the lawsuit reads.
“From higher energy bills to lost jobs, this massive expansion of federal regulatory power has the potential to affect nearly every household in the state. That’s why I’m leading a coalition of states today to stop the executive order and protect Missouri families,” Schmidt said.
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