Litigation: Environmentalists outline claims in 9th Circuit NEPA SCC suit

Environmental groups are outlining their arguments for why an appellate court should overturn a district court ruling upholding the Trump administration’s failure to use the social cost of carbon (SCC) when assessing the climate change impacts of expanding a Montana coal mine. The groups’ Nov. 13 brief in 350 Montana, et al. v. David Bernhardt, et al., in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit argues that the Interior Department’s Office of Surface Mining Reclamation & Enforcement...