(7) Shortly after the commencement of the 
NAS review, the EPA, without appropriate peer re-
view and an opportunity for public notice and com-
ment, utilized the EPA-developed SCM estimates in 
justifying the costs and benefits of the September 
2015 proposed and recently finalized rules under the 
Clean Air Act for methane emissions from new, 
modified, and reconstructed sources in the oil and 
gas sector. 
(8) Continued use by the Department of En-
ergy and the EPA of the SCC and the SCM ignores 
sound science in order to eliminate the exploration, 
mining, production, and use of our abundant domes-
tic sources of fossil fuel energy. 
(9) The Department of Energy and EPA regu-
lations, which are costing American families billions 
of dollars per year, are being justified in large part 
by SCC and SCM estimates. 
SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON CONSIDERING THE SOCIAL COST 
OF CARBON AND THE SOCIAL COST OF METH-
ANE. 
The Secretary of Energy, when acting under any au-
thority, and the Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency, when acting under the authority of the 
Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401 et seq.), may not consider 
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the social cost of carbon or the social cost of methane as 
part of any cost benefit analysis required under law or 
under Executive Order 12866 or 13563, in any rule-
making, in the issuance of any guidance, or in taking any 
other agency action, or as a justification for any rule-
making, guidance document, or agency action, unless a 
Federal law is enacted, after the date of enactment of this 
Act, explicitly authorizing such consideration. 
SEC. 4. REPORT OF THE ADMINISTRATOR OF THE EPA. 
Not later than 120 days after the date of enactment 
of this Act, the Administrator of the Environmental Pro-
tection Agency, in coordination and consultation with the 
Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Interior, and 
the Council on Environmental Quality shall submit a re-
port to the Committees on Energy and Commerce and on 
Natural Resources of the House of Representatives and 
the Committees on the Environment and Public Works 
and on Energy and Natural Resources of the Senate, de-
tailing the number of proposed and final rulemakings, 
guidance documents, and agency actions since January 
2009 that use the social cost of carbon or the social cost 
of methane, including as part of any cost benefit analysis 
required under Executive Order 12866 and other relevant 
authorities. 
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SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) The term ‘‘social cost of carbon’’ means— 
(A) the social cost of carbon as described 
in— 
(i) the document entitled ‘‘Technical 
Support Document: Social Cost of Carbon 
for Regulatory Impact Analysis Under Ex-
ecutive Order 12866’’ published by the 
Interagency Working Group on Social Cost 
of Carbon, United States Government, in 
February 2010; or 
(ii) the document entitled ‘‘Technical 
Support Document: Technical Update of 
the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory 
Impact Analysis Under Executive Order 
12866’’ published by the Interagency 
Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon, 
United States Government, in May 2013, 
and revised in November 2013 and July 
2015, or any other successor or substan-
tially related document; or 
(B) any other estimate of the monetized 
damages associated with an incremental in-
crease in carbon dioxide emissions in a given 
year. 
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(2) The term ‘‘social cost of methane’’ means 
the estimate of the social cost of methane— 
(A) as described in— 
(i) the proposed rule entitled ‘‘Oil and 
Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards 
for New and Modified Sources’’ published 
by the Environmental Protection Agency in 
the Federal Register on September 18, 
2015 (80 Fed. Reg. 56593); 
(ii) the final rule entitled ‘‘Oil and 
Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards 
for New, Reconstructed, and Modified 
Sources’’ published by the Environmental 
Protection Agency in the Federal Register 
on June 3, 2016 (81 Fed. Reg. 35824); or 
(iii) the ‘‘Regulatory Impact Analysis 
of the Final Oil and Natural Gas Sector: 
Emission Standards for New, Recon-
structed, and Modified Sources’’ prepared 
by the Environmental Protection Agency, 
Office of Air and Radiation, in May 2016, 
and identified by docket ID number EPA– 
HQ–OAR–2010–0505–7630; or 
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(B) any other successor or substantially re-
lated estimate. 
Æ 
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