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115TH CONGRESS REPT. 115-999
2d Session HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Part 1
TRANSPARENCY AND HONESTY IN ENERGY
REGULATIONS ACT OF 2017
NOVEMBER 2, 2018.-Ordered to be printed
Mr. BISHOP of Utah, from the Committee on Natural Resources,
submitted the following
REPORT
together with
DISSENTING VIEWS
[To accompany H.R. 3117]
[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]
The Committee on Natural Resources, to whom was referred the
bill (H.R. 3117) to prohibit the Secretary of Energy, the Adminis-
trator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the
Interior, and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality
from considering the social cost of carbon, the social cost of meth-
ane, or the social cost of nitrous oxide, in taking any action, and
for other purposes, having considered the same, report favorably
thereon with an amendment and recommend that the bill as
amended do pass.
The amendment is as follows:
Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the Transparency and Honesty in Energy Regulations
Act of 2017.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds that-
(1) as a tool to justify Federal actions by the Secretary of Energy, the Admin-
istrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, the Secretary of the Interior,
and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality to address greenhouse
gas emissions, including the regulation or prohibition of the exploration, mining,
production, and use of coal and other fossil fuels as energy sources, the social
cost of carbon, the social cost of methane, and the social cost of nitrous oxide
represent the hypothetical cost of 1 incremental ton of carbon dioxide, methane,
or nitrous oxide emissions in a given year;
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