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Carter Smith

@carterfielden.bsky.social

Federal Energy Regulatory Attorney & Carbon Balancing Enthusiast via TLH, SEA, UVA, J&B, EPA & GULC. Views mine.

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Carter Smith@carterfielden.bsky.social · last yr.

Climate scientists deserve a collective noun (esp. for groups of more than a few outliers). I propose: “consensus.” As in, a consensus of climate scientists. ChatGPT says it’s available. Any better options?

Noah Kaufman@noahqkaufman.bsky.social · last yr.

I wrote an article about the policy irrelevance of the social cost of carbon in the hopes of prompting an uncomfortable conversation about the future use of the metric. So I was excited to see that @Revkin asked @CassSunstein about my critique 🧵 revkin.substack.com/p/a-fresh-lo...

A Fresh Look at Climate [In]Justice (and Trump 2.0) with Cass Sunstein

I hope you’ll listen to, and share, this conversation on climate policy in the age of Trump (and lots more) with the wide-ranging Harvard economist Cass Sunstein. Sunstein worked under two presidents ...

revkin.substack.com

Paul Kelleher@paulkelleher.net · last yr.

The future benefits of abatement exceed present costs, yes. But many technical issues—including the proper discount rate—turn on whether one’s cost-benefit analysis attempts to weigh changes in real welfare, or whether it asks how much future people would pay us today to abate. 1/

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last yr.

Another way of putting it: someone 100 years in the future, looking around at the benefits clean energy has brought, will look back at someone today and say, "yes, obviously, spend whatever you need to spend to get here as rapidly as possible! There's no conceivable way you could spend 'too much'!"

Carter Smith@carterfielden.bsky.social · last yr.

Climate advocates need to think several steps ahead and strategize. I am also afraid the amusement will end b/c there's a real chance (>20%) this admin succeeds in eliminating EPA's Clean Air Act authority over GHGs. Here's why: 🧵

David Roberts@volts.wtf · last yr.

Trump's EPA is going to try to overturn the endangerment finding. That should be amusing to watch. (At least until SCOTUS caves & gives it to him, at which point the amusement will end.)

Carter Smith@carterfielden.bsky.social · last yr.

Before misinterpreting the breadth of the #SCOTUS prohibition on “universal” injunctions, Take note of ACB’s fn 1. This foremost footnote suggests—at the outset—that SCOTUS’s prohibition does not categorically extend to all “Nationwide” injunctions.

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Bob Kopp@bobkopp.net · last yr.

There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵

John Walke@johndwalke.bsky.social · last yr.

EPA & Trump exempted the 7 coal units claiming technology to meet the safer pollution limit is “not available,” even though the units have electrostatic precipitators, baghouses, and/or wet scrubbers that have met the limit. The EPA-Trump exemption lets them turn off/turn down the controls. 2/

John Walke@johndwalke.bsky.social · last yr.

Fun fact: Trump’s EPA, Zeldin & Trump just exempted 7 of the biggest coal-burning power plant units in Georgia from complying with hazardous air pollution standards, even though all have pollution controls installed, Georgia customers are paying for them, & the plants have met the tighter limits. 1/

Trump EPA head Lee Zeldin Twitter post.
Carter Smith@carterfielden.bsky.social · 2y ago

BOLD CLAIM ⚠️ALERT⚠️: my new article on climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐 This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners. 🧵 digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...

Reorienting Climate Law and Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy and the Problem of Social Cost of Carbon Pricing

By Carter F. Smith, Published on 02/17/25

digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu

Llewellyn 🇺🇦🇵🇸@llewellyngray.bsky.social · 2y ago

I love microbes.🤩 A year ago, scientists found some that would eat PFASs, and they can make #carbonsinks. The biodiversity and economic potential here is massive.🦠🦠🦠 www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Microbes can capture carbon and degrade plastic — why aren’t we using them more?

Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and clean up pollution — in ways that are economically viable and safe.

nature.com