Control of Air Pollution From Aircraft and Aircraft Engines: Proposed GHG Emissions Standards and Test Procedures

On behalf of Environmental Defense Fund, Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, Montana Environmental Information Center, Natural Resources Defense Council, Sierra Club, Union of Concerned Scientists, the Institute for Policy Integrity respectfully submits the attached comments on EPA's proposed greenhouse gas emissions standards for airplanes, along with supporting documents. Supporting documents: GAO, Social Cost of Carbon: Identifying a Federal Entity to Address the National Academies' Recommendations Could Strengthen Regulatory Analysis, GAO-20-254 (June 2020) Joint Comments to EPA on Flawed Estimates of the Social Cost of Carbon in the Proposed Emission Guidelines for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Electric Utility Generating Units (Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2017-0355) (Oct. 31, 2018). Council of Econ. Advisers, Discounting for Public Policy: Theory and Recent Evidence on the Merits of Updating the Discount Rate (CEA Issue Brief, 2017). Scott Holladay, Jonathan Horne & Jason Schwartz, Economists and Climate Change (Inst. Policy Integrity Brief, 2009). Peter Howard, Omitted Damages: What's Missing from the Social Cost of Carbon, COST OF CARBON PROJECT REPORT (2014). Peter Howard & Jason Schwartz, Foreign Action, Domestic Windfall, New York: Institute for Policy Integrity (2015). Peter Howard & Jason Schwartz, Think Global: International Reciprocity as Justification for a Global Social Cost of Carbon, 42 Columbia J. Envtl. L. 203 (2017) Peter Howard & Thomas Sterner, Few and Not So Far Between: A Meta-analysis of Climate Damage Estimates, 68 ENVI. RES. ECON. 197-225 (2017). Peter Howard & Derek Sylvan, The Economic Climate: Establishing Expert Consensus on the Economics of Climate Change, INST. POLICY INTEGRITY WORKING PAPER (2015). National Academies of Sciences, Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide (2017). National Academies of Sciences, Assessment of Approaches to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon: Phase 1 Report on a Near-Term Update (2016). William D Nordhaus, Revisiting the social cost of carbon, 114 PROC. NATL. ACAD. SCI. 1518-1523 (2017). Robert Pindyck, to BLM, on the Social Cost of Methane in the Proposed Suspension of the Waste Prevention Rule (submitted Nov. 5, 2017). Richard L. Revesz et al., Global Warming: Improve Economic Models of Climate Change, 508 NATURE 173-175 (2014). Richard L. Revesz et al., Best Cost Estimate of Greenhouse Gases, 357 SCIENCE 6352 (2017). Richard L. Revesz et al., The Social Cost of Carbon: A Global Imperative, 11 REV. ENVI. ECON. POLICY 172-173 (2017).

The Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) respectfully submits the attached comments on EPA's Proposed Rule: Control of Air Pollution From Airplanes and Airplane Engines: Greenhouse Gas Emission Standards and Test Procedures, Docket ID No. EPA-HQ- OAR-2018-0276.