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- February 2021 at Policy Integrity – …Climate-Related Financial Risk Biden Administration Kicks Off Updates to Social Cost of Carbon Hein to Help Lead White House Environmental Office Upcoming Event: Addressing the Social Costs of Driving A New Era for Regulatory Review Commentary: The Past, Present, and Future of U.S. Climate Policy Revesz Participates in Climate Policy…
- Biden Faces Call for Broad SCC Reform to Bolster Value of GHG Policies – …“interim” value for the social cost of carbon used to estimate the benefits of greenhouse gas reduction measures, Richard Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University, is urging a broad reform of the SCC and the associated “discount rate” of future impacts in order to…
- Comments on Proposed Environmental Analysis Rule for Army Actions – …does not require impacts to be assessed using the social cost of carbon. We submitted comments urging the Army to not adopt the provision. Its environmental analyses should consider monetized climate impacts.
- Academics Urge Biden to Tie SCC Update to Broader Cost-Benefit Fixes – …process to bolster the federal government's approach to the social cost of carbon climate damages metric with a broader overhaul of cost-benefit review procedures, arguing such an approach could shield any changes from legal challenges.
- Biden’s Carbon Cost Calculation Key Step in Climate Agenda – …accurate value for the social cost of carbon will be vital for much of the Biden administration's environmental agenda, said Jason Schwartz, legal director at the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. "It is going to help in undoing all the harmful deregulation to climate…
- This One Number Could Change How the U.S. Handles Climate Change – …agencies to use the social cost of carbon as part of any cost-benefit analysis of new regulations. This is not to say that the Obama administration’s method was perfect. Peter Howard, an economist at New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, has identified significant damages that will result from climate…
- SCC Experts Back Environmentalists’ NEPA Appeal – Two amicus briefs—one from Ricky Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) at New York University, and another from University of Chicago economics professor Michael Greenstone—were submitted to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit, which is hearing environmental groups’ appeal seeking to vacate the NEPA…
- Comments to New York DEC on the Value of Carbon – …(DEC) has adopted a damage-cost approach to valuing carbon dioxide pollution. We submitted comments on the DEC's draft guidance supporting the policy. Our comments also raise points about the appropriate use of discount rates, calculating damages for other greenhouse gases, inclusion of co-benefits in analysis, and further considerations for a…
- Amicus Brief in Ninth Circuit on Montana Coal Mine Expansion – …project, which fails to monetize climate impacts using the social cost of carbon. We explain that the project’s full economic benefit is, at most, just one-third of its expected climate costs.
- Comments to BLM on December 2020 Lease Sale in Colorado – A proposed oil and gas lease sale in Colorado would offer over 45,000 acres in areas valuable for recreation, wildlife, environmental conservation, and tourism. We submitted comments explaining how the Bureau of Land Management’s (BLM) environmental assessment neglects its duties to manage public lands for multiple uses and consider more…