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- Peter Howard – …work focuses on the social cost of carbon and integrated assessment models. He is the lead researcher for the Cost of Carbon Pollution Project, a collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC). He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the…
- EPA and DOT Finalize 2017-2025 Fuel Economy Standards – The DOT and EPA finalized fuel efficiency standards today for cars and light duty trucks, increasing fuel efficiency to 54.5 mpg by Model Year 2025. The agencies calculate that consumer savings under the new standards will be comparable to lowering the price of gasoline by $1 per gallon by 2025.
- Wrapped Up in Politics, Granddaddy of Cap-and-Trade Plans has an Uncertain Future – Michael Livermore, the executive director of New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, said it would be a mistake to give that up just because critics would raise the specter of cap and trade. “If we ever want to get serious about greenhouse gas reductions, it will include these kinds…
- Letter to Obama Officals on the Social Cost of Carbon – …commitment to updating the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) value to reflect improving science and economic understanding of climate change and its effects on society. Doing so can communicate to the public important information about the benefits of greenhouse gas reductions and show how the Administration frames the climate change…
- More on the nutty move by The New Republic to install misinformer Manzi as ‘in-house critic’ – Manzi makes several important concessions: he acknowledges that denying climate science is nonsense, that we face a genuine threat, and that we should take some steps to address that threat. But Manzi goes off track with his argument that the economics and science of climate change are insufficient to justify…
- In a bizarre self-inflicted wound, The New Republic hires right-wing misinformer to debunk its artic – For a cost-benefit analysis of just focusing on US legislation, New York University School of Law’s Institute for Policy Integrity demonstrated last year that the Waxman-Markey American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is “cost‐benefit justified under most reasonable assumptions about the likely social cost of carbon.’”
- Will the EPA score the true costs AND benefits of the climate bill? – This afternoon, the EPA is said to be sending its economic analysis of the climate bill proposed by Kerry and Lieberman to the Senators’ offices. It’s a scoring of how the legislation would affect the American economy. Hopefully that analysis will include the benefits, not just the costs of the…
- Excluding the benefits – …negative effects of regulating carbon emissions,” writes Michael A. Livermore, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. His institute put together a report looking at the benefits of carbon-reduction strategies – something that estimates of cost from the Environmental Protection Agency and…
- Responses to Policy Integrity fuel efficiency public comments – Today, federal agencies issued new regulations on fuel efficiency standards—for the first time, limiting the amount of greenhouse gas emission allowed from cars and trucks.
- Partnerships – The Institute for Policy Integrity regularly partners with advocacy organizations, offering our legal and economic expertise to advance shared policy goals.