Max Sarinsky
Regulatory Policy Director (On Leave)
Max Sarinsky is currently on leave to serve as a senior advisor for the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
Max Sarinsky is Regulatory Policy Director at Policy Integrity and an adjunct clinical professor at New York University School of Law. Since joining Policy Integrity in 2019, Max has testified before Congress on the climate impacts of the oil and gas leasing program, submitted amicus briefs in the U.S. Supreme Court and numerous federal courts of appeals, and published articles in The New York Times, Slate, Bloomberg Opinion, and elsewhere. He also co-teaches the Regulatory Policy Clinic at NYU School of Law.
Prior to joining Policy Integrity, Max clerked for the Honorable Pamela A. Harris of the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals. He also previously served as an Assistant Corporation Counsel with the Administrative Law Division of the New York City Law Department, where he defended City health, labor-rights, and consumer-protection regulations. Max received his J.D. magna cum laude from the New York University School of Law, and his B.A. cum laude from Georgetown University.
He can be reached at [email protected].
Court Filings
Reports
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The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: An Overview
A Primer on EPA’s Updated Values for Policymakers and Practitioners
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Analytical Clarity
How Updated Climate-Damage Values and Discount Rates Will Affect Regulatory Analysis
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The Social Cost of Carbon
Options for Applying a Metric in Flux
Public Comments
Op-Eds
Academic Articles
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The Narrow Reinterpretation: The Oil and Gas Industry’s Retreat from the Broad Permitting Authority It Long Embraced
Published in the Harvard Environmental Law Review Online
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Regulatory Antecedents and the Major Questions Doctrine
Published in the Georgetown Environmental Law Review
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US Benefit-Cost Analysis Requires Revision
Letter in SCIENCE Supporting Proposed Adjustment to Discount Rates in Circular A-4
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The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: Legal, Economic, and Institutional Perspective
Yale Journal on Regulation
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Playing with Fire
Responding to Criticism of the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases
