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- Comments on the Rescission of BLM’s Waste Prevention Rule – …relied on the IWG’s Social Cost of Methane in the original analysis. Now, BLM has radically altered the analysis for the rule, claiming that the costs outweigh its benefits and the Bureau is justifying its decision to rescind or revise the rule based on this flawed rehashing of the effects,…
- Let’s Cut All Energy Subsidies and Start Taxing Pollution – Energy subsidies have become a hot topic on the presidential campaign trail. Jeb Bush recently called for an end to all subsidies–those that support fossil fuels as well as those aiding renewable energy. Most Democrats in the presidential race support ending tax breaks for fossil-fuel companies, but believe that subsidies…
- April at Policy Integrity – April at Policy Integrity: Supreme Court Decides Cross-State Rule; EPA Mercury and Toxic Standards Upheld; In the News: Michael Livermore on the social cost of carbon; On the Docket: Comments to EPA on Regulating New Power Plants; In the Spotlight: Stephanie Tatham
- Legal Brief on the Social Cost of Carbon – We recently filed an amicus brief in a federal court case challenging the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) new efficiency standards for commercial refrigeration equipment. The case, Zero Zone Inc. v. U.S. Department of Energy, will be heard by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.
- Economist survey on the costs of climate change – In response to widespread concern about the economic effects of climate change legislation, Policy Integrity conducted a survey to determine the views of top economists about the wisdom of pursuing greenhouse gas limits. Questionnaires were circulated to every economist who had published a climate change related article in a top-20…
- The Social Cost of Carbon Turns Climate Change Into Dollars – The impacts of climate change are often described as small changes in temperature or massive emissions, which doesn’t always make sense to people, said Peter Howard, an economist at the Institute for Policy Integrity. “Putting it in dollar terms helps the public really understand what the magnitude of the climate…
- Comments on FERC’s NOI on the Certification of Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities – …submitted joint comments on the appropriate use of the social cost of carbon in the interstate natural gas facilities certification processes, including why and how greenhouse gas emissions should be monetized in FERC’s NEPA and Natural Gas Act analyses.
- UN Climate Report Expected to Drive U.S. Regulation, Litigation – …litigation, its biggest imprint will be on establishing a social cost of carbon, said Richard Revesz, a law professor and director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU. “That’s the building block used to justify the stringency of regulation across many, many agencies,” he said.
- Comments on Georgia’s Electric Utility Resource Plan – Georgia Power Company recently published its 2019 electric utility resource plan, which includes projected future costs of different energy generation programs. We submitted comments asking that Georgia Power more clearly quantify and monetize the greenhouse gas emissions of electricity generation alternatives.
- Comments to FERC on the FM100 and Leidy South Natural Gas Projects – …emission of 17.6 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 its climate impacts using the social cost of carbon.