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- Comments on Proposed Process Changes for Setting Energy Conservation Standards – The Department of Energy (DOE) recently proposed changes to its process for prescribing energy conservation standards for consumer products and commercial/industrial equipment. We submitted comments explaining how DOE’s proposed energy savings thresholds and consumer test are unjustified and will reduce important consumer and environmental benefits.
- Comments to BLM on Utah Oil and Gas Lease Sale – …real-world climate impacts of the lease sales using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Global Warming: Improve Economic Models of Climate Change – Costs of carbon emissions are being underestimated, but current estimates are still valuable for setting mitigation policy, say Richard L. Revesz, Peter H. Howard, Kenneth Arrow, Lawrence H. Goulder, Robert E. Kopp, Michael A. Livermore, Michael Oppenheimer, and Thomas Sterner in Nature.
- Comments to FERC on the Acadiana and Louisiana XPress Natural Gas Projects – …emission of 31.9 million tons of downstream emissions in carbon-dioxide equivalence per year from the combusion of natural gas. We submitted comments encouraging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to provide a more complete analysis of project emissions and weigh their climate impacts using the social cost of carbon.
- Biden Officials Issue ‘Interim’ Carbon ‘Costs’ Based on Obama Approach – Many experts expect the subsequent updates could lead to estimates of climate damages well higher than $100 per ton. “A great deal of research suggests that these interim values are a lower bound for the damages of greenhouse gas emissions. The administration is taking a careful and legally sound approach…
- Court’s Ruling Against Trump Elevates Debate on Climate Metric – …metric to study the social costs of greenhouse gases, said Jason A. Schwartz, legal director for New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity. The group filed an amicus brief supporting challenges to the Trump administration’s methane rollback. “No administration can change what the best science or the best economics is…
- Peter Howard – …work focuses on the social cost of carbon and integrated assessment models. He is the lead researcher for the Cost of Carbon Pollution Project, a collaboration with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC). He holds a Ph.D. in Agricultural and Resource Economics from the…
- Analytical Clarity – Recently completed and draft guidance is ushering in updated practices for federal benefit-cost analysis. This policy brief examines the impact of two of the most significant upcoming changes: to the discount rate and the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Comments on the Forest Service’s Use of the Social Cost of Carbon – …to use the Interagency Working Group’s estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon in its supplemental environmental impact statement are appropriate and necessary, its application of the metric is flawed in several respects.
- Administration panel attaches price tags to carbon emissions (subscription required) – “For all regulations that have an impact on the climate, either good or bad, they’re going to use these numbers to value those effects,” said Michael Livermore, executive director of New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, a nonpartisan advocacy organization and think tank. The work group notes, however, that…