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- How a Recent Court Ruling Could Transform Energy Policy – …Seventh Circuit has formally endorsed the use of the social cost of carbon, it could become one of the primary tools used to shape policies on environmental regulation, energy efficiency, natural resource leasing, and environmental impact quantification.
- 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…
- White House Underestimated Carbon’s Social Cost—Analysis – The Obama administration’s controversial social cost of carbon underestimates the economic damage done by carbon dioxide emissions by ignoring some of warming’s effects on health and resource availability, according to a report released today by New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental…
- A Carbon Calculation: How Many Deaths Do Emissions Cause? – What is the cost of our carbon footprint — not just in dollars, but in lives? According to a paper published on Thursday, it is soberingly high, and perhaps high enough to help shift attitudes about how much we should spend on fighting climate change. Richard Revesz, a professor at…
- US Judge Strikes Down Biden Climate Damage Cost Estimate – Not fully accounting for carbon damages would skew any cost-benefit analysis of a proposed rule in favor of industry, said Max Sarinsky, a Senior Attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity. He added that the social cost of carbon had been “instrumental” in allowing agencies to accurately judge how their…
- Trump’s Words Could Jeopardize His Environmental Rollbacks, Too – …to, say, lower the government’s metric known as the social cost of carbon, which estimates the effects of climate change.
- Counting the benefits of climate legislation – …referred to as “the social cost of carbon,” this estimate is key to exposing the hidden costs of a high-carbon economy. If we only focus on the costs of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, we are seeing only half the story—inaction on global warming will lead to a greater economic hit…
- Biden Climate Efforts Won’t Be Stopped With GHG Cost Loss – …ultimately ends in the social cost of carbon and other metrics being struck down, that doesn't mean the end of the Biden administration's forward motion on climate change-related regulations, said Max Sarinsky, a senior attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU School of Law. To begin with, only…
- As Concerns Mount, Environmentalists Seek To Raise Carbon ‘Cost’ Estimate – …default estimate of the social cost of carbon (SCC), believing it will strengthen the case for strict greenhouse gas (GHG) rules and other emission controls just as concerns about irreversible climate change due to the emissions are mounting. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), Environmental Defense Fund and the Institute…
- The Economic Cost of Carbon Pollution Is Much Greater Than Estimated, Say Stanford Researchers – “Results like this should give a pause that maybe we should start being more cautious,” Peter Howard, an economist at NYU Law School’s Institute for Policy Integrity, told VICE News. “Maybe this doesn’t happen, but if it does it could be quite costly, and we should take this risk into…