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Eighth Circuit Sides with Fifth Circuit that States Lack Article III Standing to Challenge the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Climate Change

In State of Missouri v. Biden, No. 21-3013 (8th Cir. Oct. 19, 2022), the Eighth Circuit rejected a challenge by thirteen states to the president’s executive order reinstating a governmental taskforce on climate change, abrogating several executive orders of the past administration, and directing that climate data be gathered for regulatory cost-benefit analysis. The decisionContinue reading “Eighth Circuit Sides with Fifth Circuit that States Lack Article III Standing to Challenge the Biden Administration’s Executive Order on Climate Change”