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- WEBINAR: Using the New Circular A-4 in Regulatory Advocacy – …new guidance on discounting —and EPA’s updated and compatible social cost of carbon valuations—can affect pending regulations. We familiarized stakeholders with these key tools for engaging in the regulatory process.
- 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.
- 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…
- Supplemental Comments to CEQ on Climate Change Guidance – …Environmental Policy Act in which it endorsed using the social cost of carbon in environmental analysis. In this supplemental comment letter, we suggest that CEQ specifically endorse the Environmental Protection Agency’s newly-updated climate-damage values when it finalizes the interim guidance.
- Policy Integrity Scholarship and Advocacy Shapes EPA’s New Climate Damage Valuations – …methane regulation that includes final updated values for the social cost of greenhouse gas metrics. The updated metrics align with many of the recommendations Policy Integrity made in our comments on the draft values, and our scholarship and analysis were cited heavily in the associated federal documentation.
- Analytical Clarity – Recently completed and draft guidance is ushering in updated practices for federal benefit-cost analysis. This policy brief examines the impact of two of the most significant upcoming changes: to the discount rate and the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- 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.
- 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.”
- The Social Cost of Carbon – …tool known as the social cost of carbon. While applying the social cost of carbon is conceptually simple, the appropriate value to place on the metric is in flux. In late 2022, the federal government released new, updated values of the social cost of carbon in draft form which, for…
- 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,…