CQ Roll Call: "As EPA Readies Climate Rule, Obama and Trump Eras Linger"
An article about EPA's expected proposal limiting power plant emissions references RFF's work on the social cost of carbon.
The federal government uses what's called a "social cost of carbon" — a metric placing a dollar figure on the societal and environmental damage of pollution — to scrutinize rules it writes.
That figure is currently set at $51 per ton of emissions, though the EPA has proposed raising it to $190, and a study by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, and the nonpartisan Resources for the Future published last year in Nature estimated the cost should be $185.
