The EPA is updating its most important tool for cracking down on carbon emissions

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February 4, 20237:59 AM ET

https://www.npr.org/2023/02/04/1152080009/the-epa-is-updating-its-most-important-tool-for-cracking-down-on-carbon-emission

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Rebecca Hersher at NPR headquarters in Washington, D.C., July 25, 2018. (photo by Allison Shelley) (Square)

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The EPA is updating its most powerful climate policy tool: a single number called the social cost of carbon. The new number is more accurate, but is also raising ethical concerns.

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The Environmental Protection Agency is updating its most important tool for trying to crack down on greenhouse gas emissions. That tool is a single number called the social cost of carbon. NPR’s Rebecca Hersher reports the new number is simultaneously more accurate and an ethics nightmare.

REBECCA HERSHER, BYLINE: Imagine trying to add up all the human costs of emitting carbon dioxide into the atmosphere – the cost of lost crops and flooded homes and lost wages when people can’t safely work outside, plus the cost of climate-related deaths. That is…

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