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The (Anti) Social Cost of Carbon

The (Anti) Social Cost of Carbon
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Jonathan Lesser
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Forty-two was the mystical number that explained “life, the universe, and everything” in Douglas Adams’s comic novel “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.” Today, another mystical number, the so-called social cost of carbon (SCC), is providing the excuse for the Environmental Protection Agency and green-energy-enamored state regulators to enact crippling energy policies.

Jonathan Lesser
Jonathan Lesser
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Jonathan Lesser is a senior fellow with the National Center for Energy Analytics, a senior fellow with the Discovery Institute, and the president of Continental Economics. His report, “Green Energy and Economic Fabulism,” was published by the Global Warming Policy Foundation.