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Carbon Dioxide Emissions More Costly to Society Than Previously Thought

Resources for the Future, with Keely Swan, C-PREE

A multi-year study of the social cost of carbon, a critical input for climate policy analysis, finds that every additional ton of carbon dioxide emitted into the atmosphere costs society $185—far higher than the current federal estimate of $51 per ton.

After years of robust modeling and analysis, a multi-institutional team led by…

Princeton Energy and Climate Experts Weigh in on the Impact of the Inflation Reduction Act

Molly Seltzer, Office of Communications

The Inflation Reduction Act, passed in the Senate and House of Representatives and signed into law by President Biden last week, is the largest bill ever to address climate change, along with its provisions for healthcare and tax programs.

According to

Fighting Climate Change is Wildly Popular, but Most Americans Don’t Know that Other People Feel the Same Way

Molly Seltzer, Andlinger Center for Energy and the Environment

Just after the U.S. Congress passed the nation’s most substantial legislation aimed at battling climate change, a new study shows that the average American dramatically underestimates how much their fellow…

STEP PhD Student Brian Lee Receives Best Student Publication Award from National Taiwan University

Keely Swan, Center for Policy Research on Energy and the Environment

Brian Lee, a PhD student in the Science, Technology, and Environmental Policy (STEP) cluster of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, was recently awarded the 2021-22 Best Student Publication Award in the College of Bioresources and Agriculture at National…

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