Last November, a memo penned by Thomas Pyle, president of the Institute for Energy Research and then the leader of Trump’s Department of Energy transition team, suggested that the new administration’s energy plan would include a focus on “ending the use of the social cost of carbon in federal rulemakings.” The memo was obtained by the Center for Media and Democracy.
“During the Trump Administration the SCC will likely be reviewed and the latest science brought to bear,” the document continued. “If the SCC were subjected to the latest science, it would certainly be much lower than what the Obama administration has been using.”