The Biden Administration’s Climate Cost Problem

The Biden Administration’s Climate Cost Problem

The coal-fired Robert W. Scherer Power Plant in Juliette, Ga., in 2017. (Chris Aluka Berry/Reuters)

Rather than grappling with the uncertain cost of carbon emissions, the Biden administration is arbitrarily choosing the cost that fits its agenda.

In the closing days of February, the Biden administration set its interim social cost of carbon, a metric that aims to capture the aggregate economic harm caused by an additional increment of carbon-dioxide emissions, at $51 per ton. The Biden administration’s $51…

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