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- 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 We submitted comments on the DEC's draft guidance supporting the policy.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…
- Comments to BLM on Oil and Gas Leasing in Utah – …Utah. We submitted comments recommending that BLM use the social cost of carbon to weigh climate impacts and, further, assess the option value of deferring lease sales to improve its land management decisions.
- Comments on Climate Damages from Farmington Mancos-Gallup RMP – …should better evaluate the proposal's climate impacts using the social cost of greenhouse gases. We also submitted comments focused on the agencies' obligation to conduct environmental justice analysis under Executive Order 12,898.
- Comments to EPA on Airplane Emissions Regulations – …and describe how the agency can correctly apply the social cost of carbon.
- Comments to Arizona on Integrated Resource Planning – …expect to result from greenhouse gas emissions using the social cost of carbon.
- ‘Billions of Dollars in Climate Harm’: Green Groups Seek Rehearing of Rio Grande LNG Redesign Approval – A coalition of South Texas community groups and environmental organiztions has challenged U.S. federal regulators' decision last month to approve a scaled-down Rio Grande LNG facility. The suit filed in June has attracted interest from outside groups, with New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity submitting an amicus brief.