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- Comments to FERC on the East Lateral XPress Project – …of downstream emissions in carbon-dioxide equivalence per year from the combustion of natural gas. We submitted comments (April 2021) and a follow-up letter (August 2021) encouraging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to provide a more complete analysis of project emissions, weigh its climate impacts using the social cost of carbon,…
- Comments to FERC on East 300 Upgrade Project – …of downstream emissions in carbon-dioxide equivalence per year from the combusion of natural gas. In March, we submitted comments encouraging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to provide a more complete analysis of project emissions and weigh its climate impacts using the social cost of carbon. In August, we followed up…
- Comments to FERC on the North Baja Xpress Project – …their impacts using the social cost of carbon. In our August 2021 follow up letter responding to FERC's draft environmental impact statement for the project, we note that the Commission has taken the helpful steps of quantifying direct and downstream emissions, but should still quantify upstream emissions, assess the project's…
- Climate-Society Feedback Effects – …is critical to understand social-ecological system 〈SES〉 feedbacks, including how humans change the climate by reacting to a changing climate. Building on recent scholarly work on the topic, this article describes SES interactions and how they can be incorporated into climate policy tools such as the social cost of carbon.…
- Comments to EPA on New Clean Car Standards – …that will maximize net social welfare and promote distributional justice; rely on legislative and regulatory history to help justify its aproach to lead time; and improve its modeling to more fully capture benefits of stronger standards. We also submitted joint comments with a coalition of other environmental groups on EPA's…
- 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…
- Comments to NHTSA on Proposed Car Standards – …also submitted joint comments on NHTSA's use of the social cost of carbon, recommending that the agency expand its justification of its discount rates and inclusion of global damages in the SCC.
- 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…