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- How a Recent Court Ruling Could Transform Energy Policy – …Seventh Circuit has formally endorsed the use of the social cost of carbon, it could become one of the primary tools used to shape policies on environmental regulation, energy efficiency, natural resource leasing, and environmental impact quantification.
- Court Upholds New York’s Zero-Emissions Credit Program for Nuclear Power – The Albany County Supreme Court rejected a challenge to New York’s Zero-Emissions Credit (ZEC) program, which pays nuclear power plants for the value of avoided carbon emissions. The legal challenge focused largely on the state’s decision to use the Interagency Working Group’s Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) to value emissions.
- Policy Integrity Scholarship and Advocacy Shapes EPA’s New Climate Damage Valuations – …methane regulation that includes final updated values for the social cost of greenhouse gas metrics. The updated metrics align with many of the recommendations Policy Integrity made in our comments on the draft values, and our scholarship and analysis were cited heavily in the associated federal documentation.
- Biden Faces Call for Broad SCC Reform to Bolster Value of GHG Policies – …“interim” value for the social cost of carbon used to estimate the benefits of greenhouse gas reduction measures, Richard Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University, is urging a broad reform of the SCC and the associated “discount rate” of future impacts in order to…
- White House Underestimated Carbon’s Social Cost—Analysis – The Obama administration’s controversial social cost of carbon underestimates the economic damage done by carbon dioxide emissions by ignoring some of warming’s effects on health and resource availability, according to a report released today by New York University’s Institute for Policy Integrity, the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Environmental…
- A Carbon Calculation: How Many Deaths Do Emissions Cause? – What is the cost of our carbon footprint — not just in dollars, but in lives? According to a paper published on Thursday, it is soberingly high, and perhaps high enough to help shift attitudes about how much we should spend on fighting climate change. Richard Revesz, a professor at…
- US Judge Strikes Down Biden Climate Damage Cost Estimate – Not fully accounting for carbon damages would skew any cost-benefit analysis of a proposed rule in favor of industry, said Max Sarinsky, a Senior Attorney at the Institute for Policy Integrity. He added that the social cost of carbon had been “instrumental” in allowing agencies to accurately judge how their…
- Trump’s Words Could Jeopardize His Environmental Rollbacks, Too – …to, say, lower the government’s metric known as the social cost of carbon, which estimates the effects of climate change.
- July 2020 at Policy Integrity – …Integrity Policy Victories: The Social Cost of Carbon How Deregulation Has Worsened the Pandemic Litigation Updates: Auto Emissions Standards, Student Borrowers, Clean Water Protections FERC Rejects Petition Threatening Net Metering In the News: Activism, Legal Challenges Yield Major Pipeline Setbacks New Article on the Social Cost of Carbon Commentary: Corporate…
- Counting the benefits of climate legislation – …referred to as “the social cost of carbon,” this estimate is key to exposing the hidden costs of a high-carbon economy. If we only focus on the costs of cutting greenhouse gas emissions, we are seeing only half the story—inaction on global warming will lead to a greater economic hit…