Scientists' Open Letter to Biden Administration and Congress
"Your leadership is urgently needed to seize the small window of opportunity that remains to limit the most catastrophic impacts of climate change now and for future generations."
A To-Do List for the New Climate Activists on Exxon’s Board
After a week when three oil giants were forced to face climate urgency, a guide to what concrete change might look like.
Carbon Taxes Cut Emissions, Not Jobs or Economic Growth
It’s easy to see why infrastructure spending would cut emissions, while creating jobs. Carbon taxes appear to do the same.
Why the Biden Administration Should Propose Carbon Tariffs
Assessing tariffs based on the carbon content of goods is complicated, but will lead to stronger climate policy and better economic outcomes.
Policy workshop addressed promises and challenges of using carbon pricing to combat climate change
Washington Center for Equitable Growth
Infrastructure means jobs
Jobs vs. environment is an old trope whose time has passed.
Recalculate the social cost of carbon
The science is ripe to update estimates of CO2 emissions costs. Calls to scrap the calculation are misguided.
How to Judge Biden’s Climate Record
To assess the effectiveness of climate policies, don’t look at today’s CO₂ emissions, instead focus on the trajectory.
It’s Too Late for Big Oil’s Pivot to a Carbon Tax
The American Petroleum Institute is considering endorsing a carbon price. That’s a big shift, but a carbon price alone is not good climate policy.
Eight priorities for calculating the social cost of carbon
by Gernot Wagner, David Anthoff, Maureen Cropper, Simon Dietz, Kenneth T. Gillingham, Ben Groom, J. Paul Kelleher, Frances C. Moore, and James H. Stock
A tale of two carbon prices
The U.S. is updating a number with the potential to push federal regulations into overdrive.
NPR Marketplace: "Fossil fuel pollution is killing 8.7 million people a year, study says"
by Scott Tong
CEI, et al., v. NHTSA, et al., DC Circuit
Amicus Brief
Center for Equitable Growth
Washington, DC
Carbon Pricing and Innovation in a World of Political Constraints
NYU Wagner workshop organized by Jesse D. Jenkins, Leah Stokes, and Gernot Wagner
Bloomberg Quicktake
Interview with Tim Stenovec
Don't discount states
The Biden administration should look to states as a laboratory for innovative climate action.
Climate policies without Congress
Science-based regulatory policies and a White House climate office could help counteract warming, no legislation required.