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- Waxman-Markey clean air, clean water, clean energy jobs bill creates $1.5 trillion in benefits – …American Clean Energy and Security Act (H.R. 2454) is “cost‐benefit justified under most reasonable assumptions about the likely ’social cost of carbon.’”
- Climate Models Underestimate Future Costs, Says Study – …pay more for today’s carbon emissions than what governments across the world currently understand. The climate models used by policymakers around the world to estimate the economic and social costs of CO2 emissions have to be improved according to Thomas Sterner, professor of Environmental Economics at the School of Business,…
- 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…
- Greenhouse-Gas Fight Escalates – The administration has used “the most mainstream, the most well-validated, the most broadly accepted methodology for assigning benefits,” said Michael Livermore, a cost-benefit expert at the University of Virginia law school. He said “the entire process has been on the record.”
- U.S. Carbon ‘Cost’ Ruling May Hit Oil Lease Sales – …calculation for determining the "social cost of carbon" could upend federal oil and gas lease sales planned in the coming months. Interior officials are "sort of in a 'damned if we do, damned if we don't' scenario," New York-based think tank Institute for Policy Integrity senior attorney Max Sarinsky said.…
- Scientists Have a New Way to Calculate Global Warming Costs. Trump’s Team Isn’t Going to Like It. – “If the metric is revised, then the incoming administration would have an obligation to explain why it’s departing from the current approach,” Richard Revesz said. Any changes made without adequate scientific justification would likely be struck down in court.
- Social cost of carbon an important part of equation – According to Michael Livermore, executive director of the Institute for Policy Integrity, the legal requirement for cost-benefit analysis is at the heart of the issue. Beginning under the Reagan administration, proposed government regulations must be submitted to review by a little-known office called the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
- 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."
- Climate change may add billions to wildfire costs, study says – U.S. wildfires cost as much as $125 billion annually, but climate change could add as much as $60 billion to the bill by 2050, the study said. The projected cost increase is attributed to an expanding area in which wildfires burn — estimated to be 50% to 100% larger by…
- Top Officials Talk Electricity Policy; EPA Advances Trio Of IRA Programs – …Institute for Policy Integrity—will discuss the White House’s new cost-benefit review guidance known as Circular A-4, how it can be used in comments and final rules, as well as how EPA’s updated social cost of carbon (SCC) valuations can affect pending regulations.