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- 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…
- Louisiana Asks SCOTUS to Block Biden Administration From Calculating ‘Social Cost’ of Carbon Emissions – …that the metric was arbitrary and would boost the cost of producing energy and hike regulatory costs for states. At the time, Max Sarinsky, an attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law School, said Cain’s injunction might not survive.
- Amicus Brief on New Jersey’s Zero-Emissions Credits Program – …power plants for reducing carbon emissions in the energy sector. Our amicus brief explains how the Social Cost of Carbon is the best available estimate for valuing harms caused by carbon dioxide emissions. We also argue that the ZECs program should account for the benefits of avoided emissions both inside…
- The WSJ Wouldn’t Print This Response to its Social Cost of Carbon Editorial – This paper’s recent editorial inappropriately maligns the federal government’s valuation of the harm caused by climate pollution as politically motivated.
- Court Ruling on Social Cost of Carbon Upends Biden’s Climate Plans – Richard Revesz, who directs the Institute for Policy Integrity at the New York University School of Law, said the Louisiana judge’s decision was “one of the most aggressive and ill-founded administrative law opinions” that he has read in recent years. Revesz called it “unprecedented” for a judge to intervene so…
- 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.…