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- Few and Not So Far Between – Given the vast uncertainty surrounding climate impacts, meta-analyses of global climate damage estimates are a key tool for determining the relationship between temperature and climate damages. Due to limited data availability, previous meta-analyses of global climate damages potentially suffered from multiple sources of coefficient and standard error bias. To address…
- Comments on California Electricity Policy Order Instituting Rulemaking to Create a Consistent Regulatory Framework for the Guidance, Planning, and Evaluation of Integrated Distributed Energy Resources – …how utilities will use cost-benefit analysis in decisionmaking. We encouraged staff at CPUC to use the Social Cost of Carbon for its interim greenhouse gas adder, use a 3% discount rate for future damages, include other environmental externalities like air pollution in its analysis, and continue considering societal costs to…
- Cutting SCC Too Costly – …policy, has embraced the Social Cost of Carbon in many recent landmark regulatory decisions. But now the state Public Service Commission is being wrongly attacked for using the SCC in its zero-emission credits (ZECs) program. If the Legislature halts this program, it would be a massive setback for climate change…
- April 2017 at Policy Integrity – April 2017 at Policy Integrity: Clean Power Plan, Ozone Rule News; Resources on Regulatory Bills; In the News: EPA’s Unfinished Business, Stealth Repeal; Commentary on the Social Cost of Carbon; Manufacturing and Regulation Comments; Comments to California, Army Corps of Engineers; Revesz Speaks at Harvard, NIH
- Comments on U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Environmental Impact Statement – …Working Group on the Social Cost of Carbon (IWG) and withdraws its technical support documents that underpin the IWG’s range of estimates. Instead, the executive order directs federal agencies to continue to monetize the social cost of carbon emissions pursuant to the Office of Management and Budget’s Circular A-4. In…
- 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…