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- 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…
- New analysis touts Cantwell-Collins climate bill – A new study by the Institute for Policy Integrity praises climate legislation sponsored by Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) — a bill that has received less attention than the upcoming proposal by Sens. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) and Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.).
- 4 Things to Know About EPA’s New Climate Damage Metric – …costs society. A higher carbon value can help tip the scales in favor of a stronger regulatory option that delivers greater net benefits… “Agencies often leave a more stringent option on the table, even if their own analysis finds that it would yield greater net benefits,” said Max Sarinsky, a…
- White House Overhaul Paves Way for Stricter Regulations – …environment… “This update certainly supports higher valuations of the social cost of carbon because it is broadly consistent with the approach that EPA is taking,” said [Max] Sarinsky of NYU.
- Facing the right costs would help us understand the value of reducing greenhouse gas emissions – In a paper published on 10 April 2014 in the leading peer-reviewed journal Nature, Professor Richard Revesz from New York University and distinguished co-authors argue that current values reported for the SCC are underestimated, due to inherent assumptions that current climate-economic models make about the time-dependence of future climate change…
- More on the nutty move by The New Republic to install misinformer Manzi as ‘in-house critic’ – Manzi makes several important concessions: he acknowledges that denying climate science is nonsense, that we face a genuine threat, and that we should take some steps to address that threat. But Manzi goes off track with his argument that the economics and science of climate change are insufficient to justify…
- Conflict of Interest Uncovered in AB32 Study as Climate Law Battle Continues – “You have to look at everything, and no one looks at everything,” said Michael Livermore, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU Law School. Livermore recently co-authored a study on the economic impact of one of the environmental bills pending in the US Senate. “Some people think it’s…
- Study finds economic opportunities in Cantwell-Collins bill – Climate legislation from Sens. Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) would give industry a consistent, predictable price signal for releasing greenhouse gases while also creating new demand for construction jobs, according to a study by the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law. (Requires subscription.)
- Waxman-Markey: Benefits Far Outweigh Costs, New Study Finds – …for Policy Integrity, an outfit basically created to bring cost-benefit analysis back to the environmental arena. The upshot? As flawed as it may be, the Waxman-Markey climate bill makes economic sense, offering benefits worth at least twice as much as it costs, if not more.
- FERC Chair Glick Calls for Tougher Reviews of Natural Gas Projects as Commission Staff Reject EPA Advice – …said issues like the social cost of carbon methodology, how the commission decides if a project is needed and what a "significant" amount of GHG emissions is are being tackled in the agency's broad review of its gas policy, and it is inappropriate for staff to consider them in the…