Judges Grapple With How To Quantify GHGs From Coal Mine Expansion

June 17, 2021
Appellate judges are grappling with how to quantify greenhouse gases stemming from approval of a coal mine expansion, appearing to reject environmentalists’ calls that the Office of Surface Mining (OSM) must use the social cost of carbon (SCC) metric to quantify long-term climate damages while also disputing the way OSM calculated the project’s GHGs. The legal uncertainty appears to leave the door open for the Biden administration to decide how it will estimate GHG emissions and their adverse impacts when...


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