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- 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.”
- Comments Submitted to OMB in Support of the Social Cost of Carbon – Policy Integrity submitted comments to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) voicing our support for the Administration’s continued use of the social cost of carbon (SCC) as it provides an important, if conservative, estimate of the costs of climate change and the benefits of reducing carbon pollution.
- 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."
- Federal Court Supports Use of Social Cost of Carbon – …agency’s use of the social cost of carbon (SCC) in its regulatory impact analysis of commercial refrigerator energy efficiency standards. The ruling may have paved the way for a new chapter in economically efficient U.S. climate policies, and our brief for the case was acknowledged in the judges’ opinion.
- California Public Utilities Commission- Comments on Interim Greenhouse Gas Adder – …use an adder based on the Interagency Working Group’s Social Cost of Carbon (“SCC”).
- 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.