Greg Schoer, an architect with TSP and Mitch Osowski, a facilities solutions group project manager with Hausmann Construction, gave an update to the Vermillion School Board Monday night on the
Noem joins lawsuit challenging social cost of climate change
April 27, 2021
FacebookTwitterEmail
PIERRE, S.D. (AP) South Dakota is joining a multi-state lawsuit aimed at stopping federal regulators from making decisions that factor in the social cost that carbon and greenhouse gases have on the environment.
The monetary figure factors into a wide variety of federal policy decisions, including Environmental Protection Agency regulations and government spending.
Gov. Kristi Noem said South Dakota will join a legal challenge to an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in January that established a working group to further examine the financial cost of climate change on society.
South Dakota is joining a lawsuit aimed at stopping federal regulators from factoring financial values associated with carbon emissions into decision-making.
Gov. Kristi Noem has signed her state onto the multi-state challenge to an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in January that established a working group to determine the social cost that carbon and greenhouse gases bring through environmental impacts, a monetary figure formally referred to as the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC).
The panel in late February issued a report setting the SCC at $52 a ton. Now, Noem and eight other Republican attorneys general, who are plaintiffs in the case filed Thursday in a U.S. District Court in Louisiana, say the executive order is an unconstitutional overreach that will slow the economy and impose more burdens and harms to the American people.
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem signs executive order on department merger
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has signed an executive creating a new Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources, the result of a merger between the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Environment and Natural Resources. 3:55 pm, Jan. 19, 2021 ×
South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem steps up to the microphone to deliver her annual State of the State address in the House chambers of the state Capitol on Tuesday, Jan. 12. Christopher Vondracek/Forum News Service
PIERRE, S.D. South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has signed an executive order to merge the state Department of Agriculture and the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources.