Partner Doug Hastings spoke with Law360 about potential legal challenges to the Biden administration’s push to expand the federal government’s use of social cost estimates for greenhouse gas emissions. Doug said that as more federal agencies begin to use these estimates, new avenues for legal challenges are likely to emerge.
"Because the Biden administration has an all-of-government approach to addressing climate change, the next litigation could be in the context of something the USDA is doing, or another agency that you wouldn't even necessarily associate with environmental regulation, that is using social cost of carbon in a way that somebody wants to challenge," Doug said.