[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 144 (Thursday, September 22, 2016)]
[House]
[Page H5860]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                 GUIDANCE ON THE SOCIAL COST OF CARBON

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, the Obama administration is advancing 
something under the Council on Environmental Quality known as a 
``guidance on the social cost of carbon.'' This would be undertaken 
while doing environmental impact studies.
  At the same time the administration claims that it is trying to 
advance more oil and gas by using those reserves to further help the 
energy economy in this country, it is also advancing this, but it 
claims it has not yet been adopted. Yet, some Federal agencies are 
already using it in order to block the development of this and of other 
important infrastructure. This will be yet another tool to stop either 
needed energy policy or other infrastructure projects that need to be 
done around this country.
  We cannot afford to have these regulators coming out using a policy 
that has not been passed by the Congress but, indeed, is something that 
has been adopted by the administration on its own in order to block 
projects that are especially needed in rural areas for our energy 
economy in this country, for nonreliance on foreign energy, and for the 
jobs that are so desperately needed. This is a wrong-headed approach to 
adopt policy without the word of Congress--the people's 
Representatives--on this issue.

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