The White House Council on Environmental Quality on Friday will strike down a Trump-era proposal that let federal agencies minimize climate change in their decisions, according to a notice in the Federal Register.
The Trump administration’s June 2019 proposal would have required agencies to take a federal project’s greenhouse gas emissions into account only when they are “substantial enough to warrant quantification, and when it is practicable” to do so.
But the Biden CEQ will tell agencies to “consider all available tools and resources in assessing [greenhouse gas] emissions and climate change effects of their proposed actions.”
Alison Flint, director ...
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