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- EPA Floats Sharply Increased Social Cost of Carbon – …began working on the social cost of methane and integrated it into some rulemakings before the Interagency Working Group undertook its own work. "The approaches that EPA took and that of the Interagency Working Group ultimately were consistent with each other — if that's any indication of what might be…
- EPA Floats Higher Climate Damage Values In Draft Carbon ‘Cost’ Update – …draft update to the social cost of carbon (SCC) metric that floats significantly higher estimates of the climate-related damage caused by greenhouse gases than the Biden administration’s interim values, as well as a new dynamic approach to setting the “discount rate” used to reduce the value of future benefits from…
- Policy Integrity Research Shapes New Federal Climate Damage Estimates – In its updated climate damage estimates for greenhouse gas emisisons, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cited Policy Integrity scholarship and analysis dozens of times and adopted some of our key arguments. EPA calculated damages based on averaging three damage functions, one of which was based on a paper by Peter…
- White House: Climate Law Could Reduce GHG Impact by $1.9T – …of society will be extraordinary. That’s exactly what the social cost of carbon shows.”
- The Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases: A Guide for State Officials – …to weigh climate goals against other policy objectives. The social cost of greenhouse gases (SC-GHG) can help policymakers understand the costs and benefits of climate action and inaction. This new guide for state officials explains why the SC-GHG is a useful policy tool and how it can be applied.
- The Social Cost of Carbon Turns Climate Change Into Dollars – The impacts of climate change are often described as small changes in temperature or massive emissions, which doesn’t always make sense to people, said Peter Howard, an economist at the Institute for Policy Integrity. “Putting it in dollar terms helps the public really understand what the magnitude of the climate…
- Costs, Confusion, and Climate Change – …that a “marginal abatement cost” (MAC) could be used as an alternative to the social cost of carbon (SCC). This article provides conceptual clarity about these metrics, focusing on how a MAC-based threshold could sensibly be used in climate policy, and explaining why it is not a substitute for the…
- May 2022 at Policy Integrity – …Helps Spur a Novel Climate Bill in New York Social Cost of Carbon: SCOTUS Decision, Amicus Brief, and “Office Hours” for States How EPA Can Strengthen its New Truck Emissions Rule How the FTC Can Limit Unwanted Charges and Data Retention In the News
- Federal Agencies Can Use Social Cost Of Carbon — For Now – The Supreme Court has rejected an emergency request to block the Biden administration’s use of a key climate metric, effectively preserving federal agencies’ ability to account for the costs of heat-trapping emissions — at least for the time being. Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney with the Institute for Policy Integrity…
- How Pausing the Social Cost of Carbon Affected Regulation – …impact of removing the social cost of greenhouse gas figures from the Biden administration’s arsenal might not hobble future climate rules. Losing the social cost of carbon “would complicate things,” said Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney with the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University Law School. “But it…