White House Eyes Ways To Blunt GHG Rulings As It Directs SCC Rollback

White House regulatory office acting chief Jeff Clark is directing EPA and other agencies to minimize or end their use of the social cost of carbon (SCC) metric to analyze federal actions’ climate effects, while also instructing officials to seek options to skirt any appeals court decisions calling for monetization of the carbon benefits of federal actions. The guidance, outlined in a May 5 memo from the Office of Information & Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), implements part of President Donald Trump’s...