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- Comments on Proposed Clean Power Plan Replacement – EPA recently issued a proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a far weaker rule that will increase greenhouse gas and soot- and smog-forming emissions from the electric sector. Our comments explain why repealing the CPP is unnecessary, irrational, and harmful.
- Comments on Proposed Weakening of Vehicle Emissions Standards – In August 2018, the Trump administration issued a proposal to dramatically weaken federal emissions standards for cars and light trucks, and to revoke the waiver that allows California to set its own standards. Federal emissions standards have been enormously successful at reducing greenhouse gas pollution and lowering fuel costs for…
- Comments to the California Air Resources Board on its Cap-And-Trade Program – The California Air Resources Board (ARB) is extending and changing its cap-and-trade program for greenhouse gases. We recently submitted comments that outline ways the ARB can improve its proposed updates.
- Expert Testimony on Colorado’s Low Emission Vehicle Program and the Social Cost of Carbon – …to global climate change. Our report shows, by applying Social Cost of Carbon estimates, that Colorado’s proposed LEV program could generate billions of dollars’ worth of climate benefits.
- Comments on Vermont’s Standard Offer Program – …should monetize any avoided climate externalities by using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Comments to Virginia on Integrated Resource Planning – …and to monetize the associated climate damages using the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gas metrics. Such analysis is necessary to allow the Commission to rationally identify the most efficient plan option that advances social welfare for Virginia, and to allow ratepayers and citizens to better understand the environmental effects of…
- Cost of Carbon Website Relaunched – …ongoing work on the social cost of carbon (SCC) in U.S. state policy. The domain, which housed SCC-focused research until 2015, has been renovated and refocused to reflect the most important and relevant developments in the application of the SCC in decisionmaking. It includes an easy-to-navigate version of our FAQ…
- Comments to the Colorado Public Utilities Commission on Electric Resource Planning – …into Colorado’s ERP process, and we suggest using the Social Cost of Carbon to monetize greenhouse gas externalities.
- Policy Integrity Input Leads to Climate Progress in Nevada – …for the impacts of carbon pollution in key electric utility planning decisions. At the recommendation of Policy Integrity and partner groups, the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada recently included language on the Obama-era Interagency Work Group’s Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) in new rules governing utilities’ resource plans.Utilities will now…
- Trump Put a Low Cost on Carbon Emissions. Here’s Why It Matters. – …officials contend that their carbon approach better reflects the way the government has traditionally done cost-benefit analyses. Critics argue that this approach is inappropriate for global, multigenerational problems like climate change, and that newer research suggests the social cost of carbon may be even higher than the Obama administration estimated.…