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- Q&A: How Will a ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ Increase Affect U.S. Climate Policy? – …its estimate of the social cost of carbon, which federal regulatory agencies use to measure the economic consequences of greenhouse gas emissions. Livermore's 2022 article in the Yale Journal on Regulation, Costs, Confusion and Climate Change, coauthored with Justin Gundlach of New York University School of Law, looked at the…
- Why EPA’s Huge Social Cost of Carbon Might Fail to Halt CO2 – …what difference a higher social cost metric would have made. “In theory — and this is what advocates have been saying — the agency could conduct some sort of weighing of costs and benefits,” said Max Sarinsky. “And there the social cost of carbon could factor prominently ... But right…
- FERC Pipeline Battle Erupts Over Social Cost of Carbon – A natural gas pipeline could face legal hurdles because the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission declined to respond to critiques about its greenhouse gas analysis, Republican members of the panel said Thursday. Jennifer Danis, federal energy policy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law,…
- White House Directs Agencies to Consider Climate Costs in Purchases, Budgets – …University School of Law. For example, he said, the “social cost of carbon offers even stronger support for the purchase of electric vehicles because you would add the climate cost savings to the budgetary cost savings.”
- White House Overhaul Paves Way for Stricter Regulations – …environment… “This update certainly supports higher valuations of the social cost of carbon because it is broadly consistent with the approach that EPA is taking,” said [Max] Sarinsky of NYU.
- 4 Things to Know About EPA’s New Climate Damage Metric – …costs society. A higher carbon value can help tip the scales in favor of a stronger regulatory option that delivers greater net benefits… “Agencies often leave a more stringent option on the table, even if their own analysis finds that it would yield greater net benefits,” said Max Sarinsky, a…
- Top Officials Talk Electricity Policy; EPA Advances Trio Of IRA Programs – …Institute for Policy Integrity—will discuss the White House’s new cost-benefit review guidance known as Circular A-4, how it can be used in comments and final rules, as well as how EPA’s updated social cost of carbon (SCC) valuations can affect pending regulations.
- Inside the Project 2025 Plan to Gut Climate Regs – …documents” for the so-called social cost of carbon, while another chapter proposes ending its use altogether. Co-benefits — a rule’s health and environmental advantages that aren’t tied directly to reducing a targeted pollutant — have been persona non grata with conservatives for years. But the Trump EPA did count them…