IPI Urges Agencies To Embrace EPA’s SCC Metric Amid White House Delay

Correction Appended A progressive think tank is pressing federal agencies to use EPA’s updated social cost of carbon (SCC) climate damages estimates to inform an array of rules and other decisions, after the White House has stalled an effort by its interagency working group (IWG) to craft a unified federal metric and instead urged agencies to use values based on “professional judgment.” “Is there a need for another group to revisit [the social cost metric] at this time? Not...