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- July 2020 at Policy Integrity – …Integrity Policy Victories: The Social Cost of Carbon How Deregulation Has Worsened the Pandemic Litigation Updates: Auto Emissions Standards, Student Borrowers, Clean Water Protections FERC Rejects Petition Threatening Net Metering In the News: Activism, Legal Challenges Yield Major Pipeline Setbacks New Article on the Social Cost of Carbon Commentary: Corporate…
- New Mexico PRC Adopts Plan to Replace San Juan Coal Plant with Renewables Portfolio – In 2022, New Mexico’s largest utility company will retire the San Juan Generating Station, a coal-burning power plant that has operated since 1973. In light of the decision, the state’s Public Regulatory Commission (PRC) has adopted a plan to replace the plant’s power output with 100 percent renewable energy and…
- Federal Court Rules Against Flawed, Domestic-Only Consideration of Climate Costs – …Trump Administration to have reduced the estimate of the social cost of methane from $1300 per ton down to just $176 per ton by excluding from consideration any climate effect occurring outside U.S. borders. Policy Integrity has worked for years to build the case against the so-called “domestic-only” estimate of…
- Court’s Ruling Against Trump Elevates Debate on Climate Metric – …metric to study the social costs of greenhouse gases, said Jason A. Schwartz, legal director for New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity. The group filed an amicus brief supporting challenges to the Trump administration’s methane rollback. “No administration can change what the best science or the best economics is…
- The U.S. Government’s Price on Carbon Doesn’t Value the Future Much – As of 2017, the Trump administration’s new discount rate for SCC is between 3% to 7%—up from 2.5% to 5% during the Obama administration. When setting funding priorities and regulatory policy for government agencies, the Office of Management and Budget has been instructed to use the maximum rate of 7%.…
- Trump Administration Lowered Cost of Climate Change, GAO Finds – …administration’s estimate of the social cost of climate change is seven times lower than the amount used during the Obama administration, according to a Tuesday report by the Government Accountability Office. Richard Revesz, Lawrence King professor of law and dean emeritus at NYU School of Law and director of the…
- GAO Finds Trump Administration Devalued Carbon Costs to Roll Back Regulations – Richard Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity and professor of law and dean emeritus at NYU School of Law, suggested the GAO's findings provide "yet another example of how the administration is ignoring science and economics in its policy decisions."
- Wisdom of the Experts – The social cost of carbon (SCC) and the climate-economic models underlying this prominent US climate policy instrument are heavily affected by modeler opinion and therefore may not reflect the views of most climate economists. To test whether differences exist, we recalibrate key uncertain model parameters using formal expert elicitation: a…
- Amicus Brief in Rio Grande LNG Case – …FERC’s failure to monetize the project’s climate damages using Social Cost of Carbon estimates is arbitrary.
- Comments to Oregon PUC on the Social Cost of Carbon – Oregon Governor Kate Brown signed an executive order directing state agencies, including the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. We submitted comments encouraging the PUC to use Social Cost of Carbon metrics to monetize the benefits of avoided greenhouse gas emissions.