Institute for Policy Integrity

Using economics and law to protect the environment, public health, and consumers.

Non-partisan think tank @NYULaw.

[Bloomberg Law @BLaw]

Opinion: If the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission rolls back cumulative impacts analysis on pollution-causing infrastructure beyond merely relabeling that analysis, it will run afoul of multiple statutes. https://t.co/dhBI0NVTvo

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Next week 💻 ⏰ Join Policy Integrity on February 17 for a webinar about proposed changes to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol, which is currently considering revisions to its framework for attributing “Scope 2” emissions.

Register for the webinar:

https://t.co/tuOAIB3ZRi

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The Trump Administration came into office last year promising to rescind many environmental, health, and consumer safeguards. In a webinar on February 25, we'll take stock of deregulatory trends that have emerged so far. 🏛️ ↩️

Register for the webinar:

https://t.co/bnLb3BwpRr

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The analysis that EPA and DOT provide to back up recent regulatory rollback proposals contain serious flaws. 🚗 🛻

In a new report, we inspect overlooked benefits and costs in the proposals and demonstrate their shortcomings:

https://t.co/EssMwtyD67

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Webinar alert 💻 ⏰ The methodology for calculating greenhouse gas #emissions could be on the cusp of a major change.

Join us February 17 for a panel discussion on proposed revisions to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol:

https://t.co/tuOAIB3s1K

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"In its first year, the second Trump administration moved quickly and aggressively to rescind many environmental, health, and consumer regulations," write our Katherine Welty and Max Sarinsky in @just_security.

But there are exceptions, they add.

https://t.co/Vm0612uPOv

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The Trump Administration came into office last year promising to rescind many environmental, health, and consumer safeguards. In a webinar on February 25, we'll take stock of deregulatory trends that have emerged so far. 🏛️ ↩️

Register now!

https://t.co/bnLb3BwpRr

[Institute for Policy Integrity @PolicyIntegrity]

New webinar alert 💻 ⏰ The methodology for calculating greenhouse gas #emissions could be on the cusp of a major change.

Join us February 17 from 12:00–1:15 p.m. ET for a panel discussion on proposed revisions to the Greenhouse Gas Protocol:

https://t.co/tuOAIB3s1K

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"The Environmental Protection Agency has established a new way to address the country’s pollution problems: Ignore them," writes our Richard Revesz in @nytopinion today.

Read Revesz's piece in full:

https://t.co/SXF6j7KsC1

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Voluntary #carbon markets face a dilemma. 🌍 ☁️ 💭

Carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for much longer that carbon offset projects typically are required to remove or reduce carbon emissions.

We discuss potential solutions in @trellisgroup_.

https://t.co/QMeRNuy5cI

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Webinar alert ⏰ 💻 Join Policy Integrity on Thursday, January 29 for an expert panel about #carbon markets.

Researchers and practitioners will talk about novel approaches to assessing offset equivalence and improving outcomes from carbon markets.

https://t.co/Spn6aPQ7VM

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In a new issue brief, we explain the flaws in EPA's argument that the major questions doctrine precludes regulation of motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions.

EPA is expected to use this argument to finalize a rule scrapping those regulations.🚘

https://t.co/VWqatRVAHM

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Interested in the future of the U.S. energy system? 🏛️ 💡

Policy Integrity is hiring an attorney or senior attorney with a primary focus on energy law and decarbonization.

Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis starting January 20. Apply now!

https://t.co/aDXLIlsKw4

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Calling @nyuniversity undergrads 📣 🌎 We are hiring a communications intern for the spring semester with an interest in comms, journalism, marketing, or environmental and energy policy.

Application review begins January 15th. Apply now!

https://t.co/AkyaQZ7UbB

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Federal agencies are increasingly cutting corners in regulatory analysis.

Regulatory actions are vulnerable to legal challenge if agencies don't fulfill legal, analytical, and procedural requirements. We summarize these requirements in a new report. 🏛️

https://t.co/ihGz4NeOnS

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Catch up with our work from 2025. Despite a tumultuous federal landscape, we've met the moment: publishing work to support anticipated legal challenges to harmful federal actions; developing solutions for the electric grid, and more. Stay tuned in 2026!

https://t.co/S6R0SObdmm

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In a new issue brief, we discuss the legal requirements that apply when a federal agency wants to rescind a regulation it claims was unlawfully issued. 📩

The Trump Administration has been flouting these requirements.

https://t.co/mce3oSCoc4

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EPA's webpage about the social cost of greenhouse gases is now a "Page Not Found."

To preserve information from the page, Policy Integrity is publicly hosting select documents related to the social cost of greenhouse gases on our Cost of Carbon site.

https://t.co/K6MMDJZSY4

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Our Christoph Graf joined @KinseyGrant on @EnergyCentral's Power Perspectives podcast to discuss capacity markets, #electricity prices, and the forces pushing them up. 💡 💸

Check out the episode:

https://t.co/dByUMJDvEe

[Institute for Policy Integrity @PolicyIntegrity]

Our Christoph Graf joined @KinseyGrant on @EnergyCentral's Power Perspectives podcast to discuss #electricity prices and the forces pushing them up. 💡 💸

Check out the episode:

https://t.co/dByUMJCXOG