Missouri led 12 states on Monday challenging the Biden administration Green New Deal-inspired decision to calculate the social costs of emitting greenhouse gases.

“Setting the ‘social cost’ of greenhouse gases is an inherently speculative, policy-laden, and indeterminate task, which involves attempting to predict such unknowable contingencies as future human migrations, international conflicts, and global catastrophes for hundreds of years into the future,” the mostly red states say in their the 46-page complaint.

Describing the separation of powers as a “fundamental bulwark of liberty,” the lawsuit counters that it falls on Congress to regulate the social costs associated with greenhouse gases, not the executive branch.

By Amanda Pampuro (Courthouse News)