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News / In the News•Mar 01, 2021

Biden Raises Key Metric for Greenhouse Gases

Michael Greenstone, EPIC Director, says the formula for the social cost of carbon should be broadened to take into account damage done to vulnerable and overburdened communities that are likely...
via E&E News
News / In the News•Feb 26, 2021

Biden is Hiking Up the Cost of Carbon. It Will Change How US Tackles Global Warming

EPIC's Michael Greenstone and University of California, Santa Barbara's Tamma Carleton, both quoted by Juliet Eilperin, released their recommendations for updating the social cost of carbon back in January.
via Washington Post
News / In the News•Feb 26, 2021

Biden Matches Obama’s ‘Social Cost of Carbon’ For Now — It’s a Figure Roughly 50 Times Greater than Trump’s

EPIC Director Michael Greenstone who focused on climate change during the Obama administration, thought Biden should settle on interim values twice as high, at around $100 per ton.
via MarketWatch
News / In the News•Feb 26, 2021

How Much Does Climate Change Cost? Biden Raises Carbon’s Dollar Value, but Not by Nearly Enough, Some Say

A working paper outlining steps to update the U.S. government's social cost of carbon by EPIC Director Michael Greenstone is featured in Inside Climate News.
via Inside Climate News
News / In the News•Feb 26, 2021

Biden Hikes Cost of Carbon, Easing Path for New Climate Rules

"Step Two is restore a transparent process and to return the social cost of carbon to the frontier of climate science and economics," said EPIC Director Michael Greenstone in response...
via Politico
News / In the News•Feb 19, 2021

With One Number, Biden Will Start to Reverse Trump’s Way of Valuing Climate

Michael Greenstone, EPIC Director, issued guidance last month on how the Biden administration should calculate the social cost of carbon.
via Bloomberg
News / In the News•Feb 19, 2021

How Much Does Climate Change Cost? Biden Expected to Raise Carbon’s Dollar Value

The administration is expected to temporarily increase the social cost of carbon, at least to the level set by Obama. Research from Michael Greenstone and Tamma Carleton shows it should...
via Inside Climate News
News / In the News•Feb 17, 2021

Carbon Was $1 Under Trump. It’s About to Skyrocket

EPIC Director Michael Greenstone recommended a 2% rate should be used to calculate the social cost of carbon, raising it to $125 a ton — substantially changing the balance of...
via E&E News

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