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- 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.
- August 2016 at Policy Integrity – August 2016 at Policy Integrity: Court Rules on Social Cost of Carbon; Brief for Ozone Case; Hein Congressional Testimony; Regulating Toxic Chemicals; New Paper on Global Social Cost of Carbon
- Supporting the Social Cost of Carbon – The Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) is the best available estimate of the damage done by each ton of carbon dioxide that is released into the air, and this metric is a critical tool that decisionmakers can use to evaluate the climate impacts of policy choices. Policy Integrity has been…
- Think Global – …for policies that affect carbon dioxide emissions, using a metric called the “Social Cost of Carbon.” More recently, agencies have also begun to use a global valuation of the “Social Cost of Methane,” for methane emissions. Yet lately, these global metrics have come under attack in courtrooms and academic journals,…
- Carbon Costs Ruling Favors Environment Over Industry – Jayni Foley Hein, the policy director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law, told me that not all companies oppose SCC, and that some, like Microsoft, actually have an internal social cost of carbon.
- Modernizing Energy Policy in New York State – …deciding to calculate zero-emission credit payments based on the Social Cost of Carbon. This marks a major success in our ongoing efforts to encourage government agencies to use the Social Cost of Carbon as a tool when designing policy. Our amicus briefs have also helped successfully defend the policy in…