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News / In the News•Oct 19, 2021

The Costs of Climate Change are Getting Lost on Capitol Hill

“It is difficult to think of any climate policy that would be as effective and as ultimately inexpensive as an economywide carbon tax,” EPIC Director Michael Greenstone told The Climate...
via Washington Post
News / In the News•Jul 15, 2021

Federal Policy, Not Markets, Will Drive the Energy Transition, New Report Says

“The problem of climate change is vexing, and not one that private markets will solve on their own,” Harris Public Policy's Ryan Kellogg and his co-author write in a new...
via Financial Times
News / In the News•Jun 30, 2021

Greater FERC Authority Over Transmission Siting Not a Fix-All for Grid Woes: Glick

FERC Chair Richard Glick participated in a virtual event with EPIC, discussing topics from the U.S. Energy & Climate Roadmap chapter on expanding the grid.
via S&P Global Platts
News / In the News•Apr 13, 2021

Biden’s Paris Goal: Pressure Builds for a 50 Percent Greenhouse Gas Cut by 2030

EPIC Director Michael Greenstone argues that putting a price on carbon—either through a tax or a cap on emissions—would be the most cost-efficient way to level the playing field for...
via Inside Climate News
News / In the News•Apr 05, 2021

Biden Clean Electricity Standard Faces High Hurdles

EPIC postdoctoral scholar Ishan Nath tells The Hill that that one advantage to carbon pricing is that it can be applied economywide and not just to the electricity sector. In...
via The Hill
News / In the News•Mar 03, 2021

How Might Putting a Price on Carbon Work to Curb Emissions?

From the standpoint of industry, putting a price on carbon is preferable to strict new government regulation of emissions, says EPIC Director Michael Greenstone. He makes recommendations for pricing carbon...
via Marketplace
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 as...
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. He provides...
via MarketWatch

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