[co-author: Shawn Whites]
Key Points
President Biden’s Day One Executive Order on climate action reconvenes an interagency working group to establish interim and final social costs of three GHGs: carbon dioxide, nitrous oxide and methane.
The social costs of these GHGs seek to quantify the negative externalities on an annual basis of a ton of these emissions.
The Biden administration will use the updated social cost figures to inform federal regulations and major agency actions and to justify aggressive climate action as the United States evolves toward a “100% clean energy” economy with net-zero GHG emissions.
President Biden’s resurrection of a relatively recondite cross-agency group charged with quantifying the nation’s contribution to climate change the Interagency Working Group on the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases (GHG) (Working Group) ultimately may have the greatest impact across the federal government as the Biden administration pursues its climate goals. The
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The
Zero Zone
December 11, 2020
A massive art installation in the New Mexico desert. A Manson-like cult leader whose followers barricade themselves inside. An artist plagued by guilt, and a lonely teenager with violent intentions. This week, Julia, Rider, and Tod discuss Scott O’Connor’s literary thriller
Zero Zone and why the 1970s was the ideal decade for this story.
From the episode:
Tod Goldberg: There’s also some easy things for why it has to set in the 1970s. If it were to take place now, Zero Zone would be filled with Instagram models. I mean, that’s just the reality.