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https://www.foxnews.com/politics/federal-court-strikes-down-bidens- 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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