How pausing the social cost of carbon affected regulation

A 33-day injunction on the metric used to calculate the financial costs of climate change is imprinted in the DNA of an air pollution rule.

By Jean Chemnick | 05/26/2022 06:16 AM EDT

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A coal plant in Pennsylvania.

GenOn Energy's Cheswick Power Station is shown in Cheswick, Pa. The temporary suspension of the social cost of carbon affected at least one federal pollution rule. Jeff Swensen/Getty Images

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Flags fly outside the New York Stock Exchange in New York City in 2020. The Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday proposed new rules on funds that describe themselves as socially and environmentally responsible.Kena Betancur/Getty Images

SEC proposes new guidelines for ESG investing

By Avery Ellfeldt | 05/26/2022 06:15 AM EDT

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Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey speaks with the media during a January briefing in Boston.

Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey (D) speaks with the media during a January briefing in Boston. AP Photo/Michael Dwyer

Court tosses Exxon bid to stop Mass. climate lawsuit

By Lesley Clark | 05/25/2022 07:14 AM EDT

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Wind turbines turn behind a solar farm in Rapshagen, Germany

Clean energy faces its latest test: Rising interest rates

By Benjamin Storrow | 05/25/2022 07:12 AM EDT

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Heat in Pakistan.

Deadly Asian heat ‘highly unlikely’ without climate change

By Chelsea Harvey | 05/24/2022 06:43 AM EDT

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Seattle wildfire smoke

West Coast states face pressure to sue Big Oil over climate

By Lesley Clark | 05/24/2022 06:41 AM EDT

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A general view of the skyline of downtown Dallas.

Climate change is stealing sleep

By Chelsea Harvey | 05/23/2022 06:28 AM EDT

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President Joe Biden speaking during the 2021 U.N. climate summit in Glasgow, Scotland.

Biden under pressure to declare climate emergency

By Scott Waldman | 05/23/2022 06:27 AM EDT

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A Home Depot employee loads a stack of plywood.

Home Depot fails to derail shareholder push on old forests

By Corbin Hiar | 05/20/2022 06:42 AM EDT

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Michael Barr.

Fed pick emerges unscathed from nomination hearing

By Avery Ellfeldt | 05/20/2022 06:39 AM EDT

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Elijah Carter, 11, left, and Robert Haralson, 12, help shop for their parents in a darkened Oliver's supermarket during a blackout in the Rincon Valley community in Santa Rosa, Calif.

The West, reliant on hydro, may miss it during heat waves

By Benjamin Storrow | 05/20/2022 06:38 AM EDT

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Gavin power plant, Ohio.

Private equity’s power plants emit more CO2 than Argentina

By Corbin Hiar | 05/19/2022 06:19 AM EDT

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