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- Comments to DOE on Energy Conservation Standards for Clothes Dryers – The Department of Energy's preliminary technical support document indicates that DOE will use the domestic-only, interim social cost of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide values developed under the now-repealed Executive Order 13,783. We submitted comments explaining that DOE should follow the reconvened Interagency Working Group’s February 2021 recommendations.
- The Institute for Policy Integrity Advocates Broader Acceptance and Use of the Social Cost of Carbon – Richard Revesz is interviewed about the social cost of carbon and its crucial role in crafting smarter energy and climate policies. Justin Gundlach and Peter Howard discuss how the SCC can be further improved.
- Comments to the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases – As part of its process for revising the social cost of greenhouse gas values, the Interagency Working Group requested public input. We published and submitted five original reports on key issues, as well as a comment letter that summarizes the reports and offers several additional points for the Working Group’s…
- Playing with Fire – …regulations or administrative actions that apply the Working Group’s social cost valuations. Given its expertise, the Working Group should consider providing such responses now, so that agencies can then incorporate them into future actions. This working paper offers a blueprint for those responses.
- Expert Elicitation and the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases – …Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases can use the findings from expert elicitations to improve the U.S. federal government’s social cost of greenhouse gas estimates, which are used in regulatory cost-benefit analysis and other policy contexts. Our report highlights several component updates, incorporating data from expert elicitations,…
- About Time – …appropriate for calculating the social cost of greenhouse gases could be conservatively estimated as between 0.5%-2.5%, with a central estimate of 1.5%. Agencies should follow the Interagency Working Group’s guidance on applying new social cost of greenhouse gas estimates based on updated discount rates—and will need to justify their choices,…
- Strategically Estimating Climate Pollution Costs in a Global Environment – …Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases provides compelling justifications to focus on global estimates. Based on a wide range available evidence, the Working Group should consider recommending a domestic valuation of at least 75% or more of the global values for optional use as a lower-bound estimate…
- Broadening the Use of the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases in Federal Policy – …government should apply the social cost of greenhouse gases beyond regulatory cost-benefit analysis. It is organized under the framework of “decision-making, budgeting, and procurement” laid out in the President’s executive order, identifying a number of relevant actions—like environmental reviews conducted under NEPA and the assessment of royalty rates for federal…
- EPA Urges FERC to Consider ‘Carbon Lock-In’ of Gas Pipelines, Stranded Assets – …certificate policy. Their comments suggested that FERC use the social cost of greenhouse gases as the best approach to assessing impacts of a proposed project's emissions.
- Comments on Greenhouse Gas Emission Offsets from Rail Tie Wind Project – The Rail Tie Wind Project would offset approximately 900,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions annually compared to typical U.S. electric generation. We submitted comments encouraging the Western Area Power Administration to provide context for those emission offsets by using the social cost of greenhouse gases.