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- FERC’s Carbon Blind Spot – …for the environmental and social cost of carbon emissions. Given FERC’s obsession with promoting economic efficiency, its reluctance to address such a glaring inefficiency is puzzling, Davis Noll and Unel argue. Like others before them, they suggest that an agency-imposed surcharge on the wholesale price of high-carbon energy—a “carbon adder”—could…
- Comments to FERC on PennEast Amendment Project – …fails to meaningfully assess the impact of emissions using social cost of carbon metrics.
- Fighting for the Full Valuation of Climate Damages – …ensure that governments, regulators, and courts account for the social cost of carbon in policy and decisionmaking—and a string of recent policy outcomes has created positive momentum.
- Implementing NEPA in the Age of Climate Change – Under the National Environmental Policy Act, agencies must consider the environmental impacts of major federal actions before they can move forward. But agencies frequently downplay or ignore the climate change impacts of their projects in NEPA analyses, citing a slew of technical difficulties and uncertainties. This article, published in the…
- Amicus Brief in D.C. Circuit on Tennessee Pipeline Extension – …quantify the project’s emissions and monetize climate damages using Social Cost of Carbon estimates is arbitrary.
- 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%.…