Noem joins lawsuit challenging social cost of climate change

Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD)

PIERRE, S.D. – 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.

Gov. Kristi Noem says South Dakota will join a legal challenge to an executive order signed by President Joe Biden in January that establishes a “working group” to further examine the financial value that society faces from climate change.

The panel in late February issued a report setting the Social Cost of Carbon at $52 a ton.