DOI’s Haaland Pledges More Robust NEPA Climate Reviews, Using SCC

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland is scrapping various Trump-era policies intended to streamline National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) reviews and pledging to conduct more fulsome analysis of climate and environmental justice (EJ) issues, including by using the social cost of carbon (SCC) climate damage tool. However, her push to bolster climate analysis in NEPA reviews also comes as she is calling for steps to speed permitting for renewable energy and other low-carbon projects. The new goals -- outlined in a pair...