Another Biden administration funding plan: $250 million from the Environmental Protection Agency for climate planning and environmental justice. Writes Michael Brady of Smart Cities Dive: “The CPRG [Climate Pollution Reduction Grants] program aims to help state and local governments develop comprehensive climate plans that reduce climate pollution and maximize benefits, ‘especially for low-income and disadvantaged communities,’…
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So, Is the Social Cost of Carbon Infinitely Stretchable?
The EPA recently proposed a new, much higher “social cost of carbon” or SCC—raising it from from $51 to $190 per metric ton of carbon dioxide. In the Trump administration it was between $1 and $7 per ton. I’ll explain just what SCC is, but, first, I note that commentary from economists is generally positive,…
Opponents of Manchin’s EPA Review Bill May Have Hurt Themselves
Environmental activists recently knocked down Senator Joe Manchin’s effort to relax permitting rules for major energy projects. That will slow down fossil fuel projects, but renewable energy projects—their darlings—face long delays, too. “The demise of permitting reform reveals that many people within the environmentalist movement are undermining the nation’s emissions goals in the name of…
No. The Climate Act (“IRA”) Does Not Invalidate the Supreme Court Decision on West Virginia vs. EPA
“Sponsors of the Democrats’ massive, inflation-enhancing, anti-growth, tax-and-spending bill, deceptively titled the ‘Inflation Reduction Act’ (IRA), are trying to fabricate legislative history,” writes Marlo Lewis in RealClearEnergy. “According to them, certain IRA provisions were crafted to counteract the Supreme Court’s landmark deregulatory ruling in West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, 597 U.S. (2022). The cleverly inserted…
Plea: Don’t Force the Post Office into an Electric-Vehicle Boondoggle
“The Postal Service should not be a test dummy for the administration’s speculative goals and it is an insult to taxpayers to treat it this way.” So writes Guy Caruso on RealClearEnergy. Here’s what’s happening: The Biden administration is trying to persuade the Postal Service (USPS) to invest in more electric vehicles. In March the…
PERC Files Supreme Court Amicus Brief, Seeks Clarity on Definition of U.S. Waters
“Fifty years after the enactment of the Clean Water Act, its reach is clear as mud,” writes Jonathan Wood, introducing an amicus brief for a Supreme Court case. The Court has agreed to hear a case claiming that the federal interpretation of the “waters of the United States” (known to environmental specialists as WOTUS) is…