SCC experts back environmentalists’ NEPA appeal

November 25, 2020
Two law professors who have researched the social cost of carbon (SCC) are backing environmentalists’ appeal of a lower court decision upholding the Trump administration’s National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) review of a Montana coal mine expansion that failed to use the SCC to disclose the project’s climate harms. Two amicus briefs -- one from Ricky Revesz, director of the Institute for Policy Integrity (IPI) at New York University, and another from University of Chicago economics professor Michael Greenstone...


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