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[co-author: Shawn Whites] Key Points President Biden’s Day One Executive Order on climate action reconvenes an interagency working group to establish interim and final social costs of three GHGs: carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane. The social costs of these GHGs seek to quantify the negative externalities on an annual basis of a ton of these emissions. The Biden administration will use the updated social cost figures to inform federal regulations and major agency actions and to justify...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 4, 2020, the U.S. Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued a final rule updating its National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) implementing regulations regarding applications to import to, or export from, liquid natural gas (“LNG”) terminals. The final rule follows DOE’s May 1, 2020 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NOPR”) ( see May 22, 2020 edition of the WER). In the preamble to the final rule, DOE explained...