On the recordSeptember 25, 2015
I thank my colleague from Pennsylvania and fellow member of the Judiciary Committee for yielding. Mr. Chairman, I oppose this amendment. The social cost of carbon is a flawed concept that should play no role in the environmental decisionmaking process. It is based on speculative formulas and has no basis in reality. Formulas can easily be manipulated to support any costly regulation. The social cost of carbon is a political tool the Obama administration uses to impose its extreme agenda on the American people. It is also another way that the administration tries to use secret science and data to justify questionable rulemaking. Speculating on the social cost of carbon should be restricted, not expanded. For these reasons, an agency should not use the social cost of carbon in its environmental review or in its environmental decisionmaking process. I urge my colleagues to oppose this amendment.
