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- California Public Utilities Commission- Comments on Interim Greenhouse Gas Adder – …use an adder based on the Interagency Working Group’s Social Cost of Carbon (“SCC”).
- Trump’s Alternative Economics of Climate Change – …acknowledge is that the Obama Administration’s estimate of the social cost of carbon is consistent with the guidance from Circular A-4. Asking each agency to develop its own metric will waste agency resources and open rules up to needless and risky legal challenges.
- California Air Resources Board – Comments on the 2017 Scoping Plan Update – We recently submitted a second set of comments to the California Air Resources Board on its 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update. These comments build on those we submitted in December to ARB on the discussion draft of the scoping plan.
- March 2017 at Policy Integrity – March 2017 at Policy Integrity: Trump’s Environmental Executive Order; California Car Standards, Distributed Energy; Toxic Substances Control Act Comments; Revesz on Scott Pruitt’s “Federalism”; New York State Acknowledges Policy Integrity’s Input on Social Cost of Carbon; Staff Spotlight: Bethany Davis Noll
- Measuring the Cost of Climate Change – The “Social Cost of Carbon” at $40 per ton of avoided carbon emissions is the presumed payoff of cleaner electricity, and more efficient cars and fridges. The White House wants to gut this calculation, but Denise Grab at NYU says it won’t be easy. A federal court upheld this concept…
- Comments on California’s Evaluation Methods for Distributed Energy Resources – …on their proposal to develop a more robust societal cost test to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of distributed energy resources (DERs). California has been a national leader in addressing the challenges associated with DER integration, and this proceeding will help the state to reform their cost-effectiveness framework.
- Trump’s Words Could Jeopardize His Environmental Rollbacks, Too – …to, say, lower the government’s metric known as the social cost of carbon, which estimates the effects of climate change.
- Comments on California’s Clean Cars Program – We recently submitted comments on the California Air Resource Board’s (ARB’s) Midterm Review of its Advanced Clean Cars program, which sets pollution limits and zero-emissions vehicle targets for automobiles sold in California. California is unique among the states in that the Clean Air Act allows it to seek a waiver…
- The Social Cost of Carbon: A Global Imperative – …a global number for Social Cost of Carbon, as developed by the Interagency Working Group on Social Cost of Carbon. First, the United States benefits tremendously if other countries set policy based on global rather than local effects. From a legal perspective, not only does international law—the U.N. Framework Convention…
- Government Transparency and Accountability – Safeguards that protect public well-being, including environmental policies, rely on the transparency and accountability of the federal regulatory process. These resources for journalists and policymakers highlight how fundamental changes to regulatory policy and cost-benefit analysis are currently threatening these public safeguards.