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- 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…
- April at Policy Integrity – April at Policy Integrity: Supreme Court Decides Cross-State Rule; EPA Mercury and Toxic Standards Upheld; In the News: Michael Livermore on the social cost of carbon; On the Docket: Comments to EPA on Regulating New Power Plants; In the Spotlight: Stephanie Tatham
- Costs of Climate Change May Prove High for Future – …have seriously underestimated the “social cost” of carbon emissions to future generations, according to a warning in the journal Nature. Social cost is a calculation in U.S. dollars of the future damage that might be done by the emission of one metric ton of carbon dioxide as greenhouse gas levels…
- Climate Models Underestimate Future Costs, Says Study – …pay more for today’s carbon emissions than what governments across the world currently understand. The climate models used by policymakers around the world to estimate the economic and social costs of CO2 emissions have to be improved according to Thomas Sterner, professor of Environmental Economics at the School of Business,…
- Pay Now or Pay More Later – …for the climate. Any benefit-cost analysis of these decisions ought to include their climate impact. If a particular decision will lead to more greenhouse gas emissions — building the Keystone XL pipeline, for example — that figure ought to go on the cost side of the ledger. If the decision…
- Gothenburg Scientist in Nature Journal: Climate Models Underestimate Costs to Future Generations – The seven scientists behind the article, due to be published 10 April, conclude that the reports by the UN climate panel serve an important function in setting the agenda for climate research. Yet the most important role of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is to inform the global…