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- April 2017 at Policy Integrity – April 2017 at Policy Integrity: Clean Power Plan, Ozone Rule News; Resources on Regulatory Bills; In the News: EPA’s Unfinished Business, Stealth Repeal; Commentary on the Social Cost of Carbon; Manufacturing and Regulation Comments; Comments to California, Army Corps of Engineers; Revesz Speaks at Harvard, NIH
- March 2017 at Policy Integrity – March 2017 at Policy Integrity: Trump’s Environmental Executive Order; California Car Standards, Distributed Energy; Toxic Substances Control Act Comments; Revesz on Scott Pruitt’s “Federalism”; New York State Acknowledges Policy Integrity’s Input on Social Cost of Carbon; Staff Spotlight: Bethany Davis Noll
- Comments to BLM on New Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its environmental assessment of a February 2020 lease sale in the Carlsbad Field Office region of New Mexico. We submitted joint comments asking BLM to monetize the real-world climate impacts of projected emissions using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Comments on Proposed Clean Power Plan Replacement – EPA recently issued a proposal to replace the Clean Power Plan (CPP) with a far weaker rule that will increase greenhouse gas and soot- and smog-forming emissions from the electric sector. Our comments explain why repealing the CPP is unnecessary, irrational, and harmful.
- Joint Comments on Fuel Economy Standards and the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases – …NHTSA should value the social cost of those emissions as robustly as possible, as they have done in the past. We encourage NHTSA to consider the social cost of greenhouse gases in both the rule’s Environmental Impact Statement and Regulatory Impact Analysis, and that it should use estimates considering global…
- Comments to BLM on Evans McCurtain Oklahoma Coal Lease – …9.6 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from direct, upstream, and downstream sources over about eight years. The agency, however, does not provide a monetized estimate of the climate damages those emissions will produce. We submitted joint comments asking that BLM use the social cost of greenhouse gases to…
- November 2016 at Policy Integrity – November 2016 at Policy Integrity: Strengthening Regulatory Review, Environmental Policy Under the Trump Administration, Measuring Flood Risk, Social Cost of Carbon Comments to DOE, In the News: Standing Rock, Clean Power Plan
- Cost of Carbon Website Relaunched – …ongoing work on the social cost of carbon (SCC) in U.S. state policy. The domain, which housed SCC-focused research until 2015, has been renovated and refocused to reflect the most important and relevant developments in the application of the SCC in decisionmaking. It includes an easy-to-navigate version of our FAQ…
- A Key Climate Metric Gets an Overdue Update – …this problem by proposing a comprehensive update to the social cost of carbon. Consistent with the scientific and economics literature from independent researchers, the update would raise the metric’s central value from $51 to $190 for each ton of carbon-dioxide emissions in 2020.
- How the Trump Administration Is Obscuring the Costs of Climate Change – …a tool called the Social Cost of Carbon (SCC). The SCC puts a dollar value on the most significant, quantifiable damages caused by each additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted. The most recent estimate of the cost is at least $51 per ton and rising over time. But now, turning…