Industry Urges OMB To Reconsider Carbon 'Cost' Data Quality Challenge

摘要

Industry groups are urging the White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) to reconsider its decision rejecting their Data Quality Act (DQA) challenge to the Obama administration's upwardly revised "social cost of carbon" (SCC) values, saying OMB's denial failed to comply with its own DQA response guidelines. In a Feb. 24 request filed with OMB, several major industry groups say they found the White House's response to their DQA challenge over the estimates to be "entirely unsatisfactory," insufficient under the data law, "and inconsistent with all OMB and administration-wide standards and policies for information quality." Their new request urges the White House to reconsider their challenge, which claims the SCC values fall short of DQA requirements. Relevant documents are available on InsideEPA.com.