White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) — Outreach pack

Personalisation — person + organisation + alignment

Named recipient

Katherine Scarlett
Chair, White House Council on Environmental Quality
White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

Recent work

Nominated June 2025, confirmed by Senate September 2025. Active in early 2026 on NEPA and permitting guidance. Prior CEQ chairs: Brenda Mallory (Biden), Mary Neumayr (first Trump term).

Signals the recipient responds to

Active recent output on permitting/NEPA guidance (April 2026)
Role carries cross-agency implementation-guidance authority
Role does not require technology-prescriptive rulemaking — fits property-based frame

Organisational context

Positions

CEQ chairs issue federal implementation guidance that coordinates environmental policy across agencies. CEQ's authority runs through guidance and the NEPA process rather than rulemaking, which matches proof-pack property-based prescription.

Active initiatives

NEPA permitting guidance; inter-agency environmental policy coordination.

Pressures

Administration priority on taxpayer protection and market discipline; bipartisan Congressional attention on federal CDR integrity.

Specific alignment

Why this recipient benefits: A CEQ memorandum prescribing property-based per-tonne evidentiary disclosure for federal CDR procurement is the fastest route to cross-agency consistency without new statutory authority. DOE, USDA, EPA, GSA each implement within existing rulemakings. Taxpayer-protection framing is bipartisan. Scarlett's NEPA+permitting track record shows willingness to use guidance as a coordination instrument.

Why now: FY27 federal procurement cycle — CEQ guidance in Q2 2026 lands with room to implement.

The ask: Inter-agency working group convening invitation. Attachment: draft CEQ memorandum language, cost-benefit analysis for the federal purse, legal-authority memo.

Agency: White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ)

Agency authority

Coordinate federal environmental policy; issue federal implementation guidance.

The ask

Federal implementation guidance prescribing property-based per-tonne evidentiary disclosure for any federal agency procuring, subsidising, or reporting on carbon dioxide removal. Technology-neutral. Cost-minimal to the taxpayer.

The case

CEQ guidance is the fastest route to cross-agency consistency on per-tonne evidentiary properties. Each agency already has implementation authority; only the framing is needed. A CEQ memorandum establishes a federal floor that agencies can implement within existing rulemaking cycles.