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Dear Maryland: It’s Time to Drive Clean Trucks and Buses

Union of Concerned Scientists

From more and more days of killer heat , to increased flooding and severe storms , to sea level rise , to ecosystem impacts in the Chesapeake Bay , Maryland has a huge stake in the climate. million metric tons of reduced greenhouse gas emissions through to 2050. This feasible and commonsense regulation would result in 46.45

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Identifying the Means to an End: The Role of the Social Cost of Carbon

Arnold Porter

The SCC is a metric that seeks to capture all of the costs that emitting a ton of carbon dioxide (or equivalent amounts of other greenhouse gases such as methane) imposes on society by contributing to climate change over the hundreds of years it remains in the atmosphere. 4:21-cv-00287-SPM (E.D. March 8, 2021).]]