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On April 20, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE or the “Department”) issued an order
1 revoking its Prohibition Order Securing Critical Defense Facilities, issued December 17, 2020,
2 which we summarized here. DOE’s actions come exactly 90 days after President Biden’s Executive Order 13990 on Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science to Tackle the Climate Crisis, issued January 20, 2021.
3 EO 13990 suspended former President Trump’s Executive Order 13920 on Securing the United States Bulk-Power System,
4 issued May 1, 2020, for 90 days, and directed the Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to “consider whether to recommend that a replacement order be issued.”
[co-author: Nicole Hager]
On April 22, 2021, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) called for public comments on policies that the Administration should pursue to secure the U.S. electric grid from exploitation and attack by foreign adversaries. The DOE is seeking policy recommendations to assess threats and develop solutions, including whether to expand its authority to block certain utilities from obtaining electric equipment from adversary nations, such as the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and the Russian Federation. As part of its efforts, the DOE is considering requesting blocking authority to cover the electric distribution system and utilities that service critical infrastructure, including defense, communications, energy services, healthcare and public health, information technology, and transportation systems. Comments are due to the DOE by
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The Biden-Harris Administration Day One Executive Order on
Protecting Public Health and the Environment and Restoring Science
to Tackle the Climate Crisis established an interagency working
group to publish a revised interim Social Cost of Carbon (SCC)
within 30 days and then to complete a final SCC by January 2022. On
February 26, the workgroup relied on Obama-era methods to produce
an interim SCC figure of $51 per ton, replacing the Trump-era
estimate of between $1 and $6 per ton. Twelve states promptly
challenged the new figure in federal district court in Missouri as