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- The Institute for Policy Integrity Advocates Broader Acceptance and Use of the Social Cost of Carbon – Richard Revesz is interviewed about the social cost of carbon and its crucial role in crafting smarter energy and climate policies. Justin Gundlach and Peter Howard discuss how the SCC can be further improved.
- A Carbon Calculation: How Many Deaths Do Emissions Cause? – What is the cost of our carbon footprint — not just in dollars, but in lives? According to a paper published on Thursday, it is soberingly high, and perhaps high enough to help shift attitudes about how much we should spend on fighting climate change. Richard Revesz, a professor at…
- UN Climate Report Expected to Drive U.S. Regulation, Litigation – …litigation, its biggest imprint will be on establishing a social cost of carbon, said Richard Revesz, a law professor and director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU. “That’s the building block used to justify the stringency of regulation across many, many agencies,” he said.
- FERC Chair Glick Calls for Tougher Reviews of Natural Gas Projects as Commission Staff Reject EPA Advice – …said issues like the social cost of carbon methodology, how the commission decides if a project is needed and what a "significant" amount of GHG emissions is are being tackled in the agency's broad review of its gas policy, and it is inappropriate for staff to consider them in the…
- Louisiana Climate Lawsuit Is Parade of Damaging Mischaracterizations – A federal court in Louisiana heard oral argument Dec. 7 in a case brought by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) that is gaining national attention. The case seeks to prevent federal agencies from considering scientific estimates of climate change impacts. It could have profound consequences, but not the ones…
- An Unprecedented Attack on Climate Science in the Courts – …the federal interagency working group’s ongoing assessment of the social cost of carbon, which estimates the incremental cost to society of a unit of greenhouse gas emissions.
- US Judge Strikes Down Biden Climate Damage Cost Estimate – Not fully accounting for carbon damages would skew any cost-benefit analysis of a proposed rule in favor of industry, said Max Sarinsky, a Senior Attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity. He added that the social cost of carbon had been “instrumental” in allowing agencies to accurately judge how their…
- Federal Judge Halts Biden Admin From Using Social Cost of Carbon – "This injunction is extraordinarily broad," Max Sarinsky, an attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law School, told Axios. "I think it will receive very, very close scrutiny on appeal."
- Biden Climate Efforts Won’t Be Stopped With GHG Cost Loss – …ultimately ends in the social cost of carbon and other metrics being struck down, that doesn't mean the end of the Biden administration's forward motion on climate change-related regulations, said Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law. To begin with, only…
- U.S. Carbon ‘Cost’ Ruling May Hit Oil Lease Sales – …calculation for determining the "social cost of carbon" could upend federal oil and gas lease sales planned in the coming months. Interior officials are "sort of in a 'damned if we do, damned if we don't' scenario," New York-based think tank Institute for Policy Integrity senior attorney Max Sarinsky said.…