It’s actually surprising, since the Biden-Harris regime has been doing all they can to cause problems for the incoming Trump admin. And the American people, especially the workers
Biden Admin Scraps Climate Disclosure Rule for Contractors
Over the past couple of years, a lobbying battle has been underway over a Biden administration proposal that would have required large federal contractors to publicly disclose their annual greenhouse gas emissions and climate-related financial risks.
In his announcement of the proposal in November 2022, President Biden said that it would make the U.S. the first country to require “major” contractors to set emissions reduction targets in line with the Paris Agreement on climate.
But on Jan. 10, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council (FAR Council), which helps coordinate procurement policy, announced it had withdrawn the climate disclosure rule, which was titled Disclosure of Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Climate-Related Financial Risk. In part, the announcement said that agencies had run out of time during the Biden-Harris administration to finalize the proposal, given the outpouring of regulatory comments on it. The rule’s fizzling out was described as a win by one of many industry trade associations that lobbied against it.
The rest is behind a paywall, so
(Crowell) The withdrawal notice explains that the agencies lacked sufficient time during the current administration to finalize the proposed rule “particularly given the large volume of public comments and the policy issues they raised” and that “[t]he agencies’ overall analysis of public comments indicates evolving practices and use of standards in industry, and since the publication of the proposed rule, differing domestic and international regulations covering greenhouse gas disclosures have been created.”
Does anyone actually believe that they care what the people think? Most likely the figured out that they did not have the statutory authority to pass this rule, and were looking at the Supreme Court Chevron ruling, which rolled back the ability of federal agencies to make rules which were not specifically authorized by Congressional legislation.
