Advocates Warn Trump May Find It Challenging To Scrap Carbon 'Cost' Tool

Existing legal precedent and an ongoing National Academy of Sciences (NAS) review of the Obama administration's social cost of carbon (SCC) estimates could complicate efforts by the incoming Trump administration to scrap or scale back the SCC despite long-standing opposition to the tool from conservatives and Republicans. The appraisal that the SCC could remain viable under President Trump -- floated by supporters of the measure for estimating the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions in regulations and other actions -- resembles...