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US lawmakers put social carbon cost in crosshairs

Published 23:44 on February 28, 2017  /  Last updated at 23:03 on September 15, 2020  / Ben Garside /  Americas, Carbon Taxes, US

A cross-party committee of US lawmakers held their first hearing on the country’s social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) assessment on Tuesday, in what some observers said what the new administration’s first attack to the climate action tool.
A cross-party committee of US lawmakers held their first hearing on the country’s social cost of carbon (SC-CO2) assessment on Tuesday, in what some observers said what the new administration’s first attack to the climate action tool.


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