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- Comments on Truck GHG Emissions – We recently submitted two sets of comments to the EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on their greenhouse gas standards for trucks.
- Let’s Cut All Energy Subsidies and Start Taxing Pollution – Energy subsidies have become a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail. Jeb Bush recently called for an end to all subsidies–those that support fossil fuels as well as those aiding renewable energy. Most Democrats in the presidential race support ending tax breaks for fossil-fuel companies, but believe that subsidies…
- Comments on Aircraft Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards – We recently submitted comments to the EPA regarding their endangerment finding and advance notice of proposed rulemaking on greenhouse gas emissions from aircraft.
- Comments on New York State’s “Reforming the Energy Vision” Initiative – …Commission sought comments on how best to develop a cost-benefit analysis framework to evaluate utility proposals within the REV and related proceedings. Our comments addressed the consideration of externalities and the social cost of carbon in the Commission’s cost-benefit analysis.
- July 2015 at Policy Integrity – July 2015 at Policy Integrity: NY Times Op-Ed on the Clean Power Plan, Report on Legal Aid and Domestic Violence, NYC’s Environmental Milestone, Social Cost of Carbon Legal Brief, Tribe’s Climate Claims, Spotlight: Michael Oppenheimer
- 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…