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- The Institute for Policy Integrity Advocates Broader Acceptance and Use of the Social Cost of Carbon – Richard Revesz is interviewed about the social cost of carbon and its crucial role in crafting smarter energy and climate policies. Justin Gundlach and Peter Howard discuss how the SCC can be further improved.
- EPA Revises the Social Cost of a Potent Greenhouse Gas – …to calculations for the social cost of greenhouse gases. “They have begun to manipulate those estimates in ways that are not at all consistent with the best science or economics,” he said. A guide on the social cost of greenhouse gases co-authored by Schwartz and published by NYU’s Institute for…
- Academics Urge Biden to Tie SCC Update to Broader Cost-Benefit Fixes – …process to bolster the federal government's approach to the social cost of carbon climate damages metric with a broader overhaul of cost-benefit review procedures, arguing such an approach could shield any changes from legal challenges.
- Biden Administration Restores Obama-Era Carbon Cost Estimate, Plans 2022 Update – …have long used the social cost of carbon in their research, and several states have continued to use the Obama-era estimate in their policymaking. Richard Revesz said whatever comes out of the working group going forward will be reviewed by leading economists and other experts. "It sets forth a blueprint…
- Everyone Is Bad at Pricing Carbon — and Society Is Paying – …we are from understanding carbon emissions’ full cost to society. The U.S. government estimates that the social cost of carbon emissions is about $37 a tonne. But the report finds that the “latest scientific and economic research shows that $37 should be viewed as a lower bound” for the cost…
- The Social Cost of Carbon – …tool known as the social cost of carbon. While applying the social cost of carbon is conceptually simple, the appropriate value to place on the metric is in flux. In late 2022, the federal government released new, updated values of the social cost of carbon in draft form which, for…
- Court Backs Obama’s Climate Change Accounting – The Institute for Policy Integrity said the ruling is significant for including climate change in cost-benefit analyses. “This ruling provides significant support for the social cost of carbon as a regulatory policy tool,” Denise Grab, a senior attorney with the institute, said in a statement.
- Comments on Truck GHG Emissions – We recently submitted two sets of comments to the EPA and National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on their greenhouse gas standards for trucks.
- Cutting SCC Too Costly – …policy, has embraced the Social Cost of Carbon in many recent landmark regulatory decisions. But now the state Public Service Commission is being wrongly attacked for using the SCC in its zero-emission credits (ZECs) program. If the Legislature halts this program, it would be a massive setback for climate change…
- Much-Debated Climate Metric Getting Immediate Use Under Biden – …full disclosure of the social cost of carbon associated with any major project on federal lands but not a rigorous cost-benefit analysis, said Jason Schwartz, legal director for the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU. That could force Interior officials to make a judgment call, he said. “Then it’ll be…