From Climate Extra

Higher GHG ‘Cost’ Estimates Loom Amid Separate Look At Federal Uses

September 21, 2021
Experts are predicting an update to the federal social cost of carbon (SCC) tool due early next year that will significantly boost the estimated per-ton climate damages, even as a revived interagency working group (IWG) is expected to weigh in possibly within days about how widely the federal government should use the metric. The work comes as a top EPA official is also citing the agency’s expertise as a potential asset for the Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) as the...


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