DOI Declines To Add SCC To NEPA Review, Saying Chief’s Order Prospective

The Biden administration is rejecting environmentalists’ arguments that it needs to redo a Trump-era environmental review for a coal-mine expansion project to account for the social cost of carbon (SCC), saying Interior Secretary Deb Haaland’s order urging use of the greenhouse gas metric only applies to reviews begun after the order was signed. The dispute is playing out in a case pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment (UPHE) v....