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- Legal Brief on the Social Cost of Carbon – We recently filed an amicus brief in a federal court case challenging the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new efficiency standards for commercial refrigeration equipment. The case, Zero Zone Inc. v. U.S. Department of Energy, will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
- The Economic Cost of Carbon Pollution Is Much Greater Than Estimated, Say Stanford Researchers – “Results like this should give a pause that maybe we should start being more cautious,” Peter Howard, an economist at NYU Law School’s Institute for Policy Integrity, told VICE News. “Maybe this doesn’t happen, but if it does it could be quite costly, and we should take this risk into…
- Climate change may add billions to wildfire costs, study says – U.S. wildfires cost as much as $125 billion annually, but climate change could add as much as $60 billion to the bill by 2050, the study said. The projected cost increase is attributed to an expanding area in which wildfires burn — estimated to be 50% to 100% larger by…
- Report argues that climate change-induced wildfires should factor into carbon’s social cost – …included in the U.S. government’s future estimates of the social cost of carbon emissions. This is the argument in a report released today by New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental Defense Fund.
- Flammable Planet: Wildfires and the Social Cost of Carbon – Climate change is expected to make wildfires more frequent and intense, with new areas facing wildfire risk. This could take a serious toll on the U.S. economy by expanding the area that wildfires burn 50 percent by 2050—and raising projected damages by tens of billions of dollars a year. Flammable…
- Criticism of EPA’s Economic Analysis Sorely Misplaced – A recent report from the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) suggests that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) should improve the way it analyzes regulations. Critics have been quick to trumpet the EPA’s “failure,” but in reality, the EPA deserves an A (or at least an A-).
- Facing the right costs would help us understand the value of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – In a paper published on 10 April 2014 in the leading peer-reviewed journal Nature, Professor Richard Revesz from New York University and distinguished co-authors argue that current values reported for the SCC are underestimated, due to inherent assumptions that current climate-economic models make about the time-dependence of future climate change…
- Winners and Losers in the Climate Rule – …EPA’s proposed regulation of carbon emissions from existing power plants? Society at large. As the Regulatory Impact Analysis accompanying EPA’s proposal makes clear, the social benefits of reducing power plants’ emissions greatly outweigh the costs. EPA estimates that total compliance costs will top out at $8.8 billion in 2030 (and…
- May at Policy Integrity – May at Policy Integrity: Regulating Greenhouse Gases, Social Cost of Carbon, In the News: Richard Revesz on Unleashing Market Forces on Coal, On the Docket: Comments on EPA’s Existing Sources Standards, In the Spotlight: Ambassador Julissa Reynoso
- Joint Public Comments on the Social Cost of Carbon to DOE and HUD – …joint comments on the social cost of carbon to two Department of Energy energy efficiency rules and to another energy efficiency rule proposed jointly by the Department of Housing and Urban Development and the Department of Agriculture. They are substantially similar to those we submitted for EPA’s proposed New Source…