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- 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…
- Brief on the Bureau of Land Management’s Waste Prevention Rule – …the use of the Social Cost of Methane was reasonable and appropriate. The Social Cost of Methane is the best available metric for measuring damages from methane emissions. And it allowed BLM to set restrictions based on the global estimate of damages from methane emissions, which best advances U.S. interests…
- 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use the domestic-only, interim social cost of carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide values developed under the now-repealed Executive Order 13,783.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.
- July 2015 at Policy Integrity – July 2015 at Policy Integrity: NY Times Op-Ed on the Clean Power Plan, Report on Legal Aid and Domestic Violence, NYC’s Environmental Milestone, Social Cost of Carbon Legal Brief, Tribe’s Climate Claims, Spotlight: Michael Oppenheimer
- EPA Urges FERC to Consider ‘Carbon Lock-In’ of Gas Pipelines, Stranded Assets – …certificate policy. Their comments suggested that FERC use the social cost of greenhouse gases as the best approach to assessing impacts of a proposed project's emissions.
- May 2022 at Policy Integrity – …Helps Spur a Novel Climate Bill in New York Social Cost of Carbon: SCOTUS Decision, Amicus Brief, and “Office Hours” for States How EPA Can Strengthen its New Truck Emissions Rule How the FTC Can Limit Unwanted Charges and Data Retention In the News
- Republicans Are Still Sticking Their Heads in the Tar Sands on Climate Change – “My immediate reaction is that these states should have a very hard time convincing a judge that a President asking his agencies to work together, to engage with the public and stakeholders, and then to follow the best available science and economics to evaluate the consequences of their decisions, is…
- The Social Cost of Carbon Gets an Interim Update from the Biden Administration – In the last four years, that highly devalued, flawed SCC number was used in numerous regulatory processes. UCS worked closely with a coalition expertly led by the Institute for Policy Integrity at NYU to file comments in as many of these regulatory dockets as possible, getting on the record each…
- Comments to FERC on the East Lateral XPress Project – …of downstream emissions in carbon-dioxide equivalence per year from the combustion of natural gas. We submitted comments (April 2021) and a follow-up letter (August 2021) encouraging the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to provide a more complete analysis of project emissions, weigh its climate impacts using the social cost of carbon,…
- California Air Resources Board – Comments on the 2017 Scoping Plan Update – We recently submitted a second set of comments to the California Air Resources Board on its 2017 Climate Change Scoping Plan Update. These comments build on those we submitted in December to ARB on the discussion draft of the scoping plan.