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- Comments to BLM on Resource Management in the Powder River Basin – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is considering amending Resource Management Plans for the Miles City and Buffalo field offices in the Powder River Basin. The agency will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) for the proposal. We submitted comments at the scoping phase urging BLM to provide analysis that…
- California Incorporates Our Input on Societal Cost Test – …to conduct a societal cost test to determine the cost-effectiveness of DERs. Having been “persuaded by the arguments of the Institute for Policy Integrity,” the ruling will require utilities to calculate the climate benefits of DERs by using the Social Cost of Carbon estimate developed by the Interagency Working Group.…
- Strategically Estimating Climate Pollution Costs in a Global Environment – …Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases provides compelling justifications to focus on global estimates. Based on a wide range available evidence, the Working Group should consider recommending a domestic valuation of at least 75% or more of the global values for optional use as a lower-bound estimate…
- Responses to Policy Integrity fuel efficiency public comments – Today, federal agencies issued new regulations on fuel efficiency standards—for the first time, limiting the amount of greenhouse gas emission allowed from cars and trucks.
- Comments on proposed vehicle emission and fuel-economy standards – Policy Integrity submitted two sets of comments regarding the federal government’s proposed regulations to control the emissions and fuel economy standards of America’s fleet of light-duty vehicles (cars, SUV’s and pick-ups but not larger trucks).
- Comments to DOE on Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers – The Department of Energy (DOE) recently asked for input on energy conservation standards for certain electrical grid equipment. We submitted comments encouraging DOE to continue monetizing the full climate benefits of greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
- Comments on Royal Gorge Lease Sale – …in Colorado that would produce 317 million tons of carbon dioxide-equivalent over a 30-year period in upstream and downstream emissions. We submitted comments urging the agency to apply the social cost of greenhouse gases in its environmental assessment.
- Comments on Caballo West Federal Coal Lease – …year. Despite quantifying over 23 million tons of yearly carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, OSM does not include a monetized estimate of the climate damages those emissions will produce. We submitted joint comments asking that OSM use the social cost of greenhouse gases to better weigh the real-world impacts of potential…
- Comments on Proposed Repeal of the Clean Power Plan – As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues its rulemaking to repeal the Clean Power Plan, we submitted two sets of comments that challenge EPA’s legal and economic arguments for undoing this important climate policy.
- Comments to DOE on Energy Conservation Standards for Clothes Dryers – The Department of Energy's preliminary technical support document indicates that DOE will use the domestic-only, interim social cost of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide values developed under the now-repealed Executive Order 13,783. We submitted comments explaining that DOE should follow the reconvened Interagency Working Group’s February 2021 recommendations.