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- Social Costs of Greenhouse Gases – …and coastal destruction. The social cost of carbon (SCC) is a metric designed to quantify climate damages, representing the net economic cost of carbon dioxide emissions. Our issue brief on the Social Cost of Carbon details how this metric was developed and how it applies to federal regulatory policy.
- Scientists Have a New Way to Calculate Global Warming Costs. Trump’s Team Isn’t Going to Like It. – “If the metric is revised, then the incoming administration would have an obligation to explain why it’s departing from the current approach,” Richard Revesz said. Any changes made without adequate scientific justification would likely be struck down in court.
- December 2016 at Policy Integrity – December 2016 at Policy Integrity: Brief for Carbon Standards Lawsuit; California Air Resources Board Comments; Revesz on Social Cost of Carbon Battle; Distributed Energy Valuation; Energy Storage
- The Coming Battle Between Economists and the Trump Team Over the True Cost of Climate Change – The new administration almost certainly couldn’t make any major changes without providing adequate scientific and economic justification, said Richard Revesz, a law professor and dean emeritus of the New York University School of Law. Otherwise, the move would also likely be struck down in court as “arbitrary and capricious,” he…
- Comments to California Air Resources Board on 2030 Target Scoping Plan Draft – This summer, California extended its greenhouse gas emissions reduction program to 2030 with two companion bills. The legislation modifies how the Air Resources Board (ARB), the state agency responsible for regulating air pollution, should assess proposed policy measures and prioritize goals in designing regulations. ARB staff released a preliminary draft…
- Comments on the Department of Energy’s Use of the Social Cost of Carbon – …Energy (DOE) used the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) to value the climate benefits of more efficient technologies. DOE did not, however, incorporate this benefit for other greenhouse gases such as methane. We recently submitted joint comments with the Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Union of Concerned…
- November 2016 at Policy Integrity – November 2016 at Policy Integrity: Strengthening Regulatory Review, Environmental Policy Under the Trump Administration, Measuring Flood Risk, Social Cost of Carbon Comments to DOE, In the News: Standing Rock, Clean Power Plan
- Richard L. Revesz – Richard L. Revesz is one of the nation’s leading experts in the fields of environmental and regulatory law and policy. Revesz is the Lawrence King Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at the New York University School of Law, where he founded and directs the Institute for Policy Integrity, a…
- Comments on New York State Clean Energy Standard Petitions – …system based on the Social Cost of Carbon (“SCC”). Various parties submitted petitions for rehearing or clarification, and criticized the Order on a variety of grounds. Among other criticisms, challengers argue that it was inappropriate for the Commission to use the SCC to value the zero‐emission attributes of nuclear energy…
- How a Recent Court Ruling Could Transform Energy Policy – …Seventh Circuit has formally endorsed the use of the social cost of carbon, it could become one of the primary tools used to shape policies on environmental regulation, energy efficiency, natural resource leasing, and environmental impact quantification.