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Biden returns to Obama’s ‘social cost of carbon’ value for now

By Abby Smith
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Biden returns to Obama’s ‘social cost of carbon’ value for now

President Biden’s team is temporarily returning to numbers used by the Obama administration to assess the monetary benefits of policies curbing greenhouse gas emissions but with suggestions it will ratchet up the final values.

The action could help the Biden administration justify stricter emissions controls.

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