Republican Senators Press Biden Officials To Detail Plans For SCC Use

The highest-ranking Republicans on nine Senate committees are pressing Biden administration officials to detail long-awaited recommendations from an inter-agency working group (IWG) on how the federal agencies should use of the social cost of carbon (SCC) metric, alleging an “opaque decision-making process on the issue.” A Nov. 4 letter from the lawmakers responds to a Biden executive order (EO) from early this year that set a September deadline for a revived IWG to provide recommendations on “areas of decision-making, budgeting,...