华盛顿-最高法院周四允许拜登政府使用更高的估计值来计算对人和财产的损害，共和党领导的州对此提出了质疑环境温室气体排放。

法官们没有就拒绝恢复路易斯安那州一名联邦法官的命令发表评论，该命令阻止政府在为污染行业制定规则时更加重视温室气体排放的潜在损害。

这种方法使用“碳的社会成本”来计算未来的气候损害，以证明对化石燃料更严格的限制是合理的，运输和其他行业。

新奥尔良的联邦上诉法院搁置了该命令，路易斯安那州领导九个州请求高等法院介入。

法官拒绝这样做，使得政府可以使用每吨二氧化碳51美元的临时赔偿标准，同时努力更新并可能增加每吨二氧化碳的成本。在特朗普政府将其削减至7美元之前，奥巴马政府一直使用51美元的数字。

就其本身而言，这一估计并没有强加任何新的要求，但它可能被用来证明更严格的规则是合理的。各州可以自由质疑任何新的规定。

Justices won't block Biden policy on 'social cost of carbon'

WASHINGTON --The Supreme Court on Thursday allowed the Biden administration to use a higher estimate, challenged by Republican-led states, for calculating damages to people and theenvironmentfrom greenhouse gas emissions.

The justices did not comment in refusing to put back in place an order from a federal judge in Louisiana that had blocked the administration from putting greater emphasis on potential damage from greenhouse gas emissions when creating rules for polluting industries.

The approach uses the “social cost of carbon” to calculate future climate damages to justify tougher restrictions for fossil fuels,transportationand other industries.

The federal appeals court in New Orleans put the order on hold and Louisiana led nine states in asking the high court to in to intervene.

The justices' refusal to do so allows the administration to use an interim standard of $51 in damages per ton of carbon dioxide emitted while it works to update and possibly increase the cost per ton. The $51 figure was used by the Obama administration before the Trump administration cut it to $7.

By itself, the estimate does not impose any new requirements, but it could be used to justify tougher rules. The states would be free to challenge any new regulations.