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Michael Greenstone, one of the minds behind the social cost of carbon, has climate policy insights for the Biden administration.
Michael Greenstone: Basically outbid polluters for the right to pollute. Paul Rand: Greenstone believes that this idea could be an effective new tool that organizations, and someday even you could use ...
NPR's Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Michael Greenstone, professor and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago the impact of the rising cost of carbon on climate policy.
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Greenstone's study did highlight that unequal projected impacts of climate change could be beneficial in certain areas. For example, the study pointed that warming would cause 160 excess deaths ...
In an interview with the Maroon, Michael Greenstone, who was appointed as the inaugural faculty director of the new Institute for Climate and Sustainable Growth by University President Paul Alivisatos ...
Michael Greenstone has the résumé of somebody who should be despondent over Washington’s failure to pass a climate bill. An environmental economist who worked in the Obama White House, he is ...
Greenstone is director of the new Climate and Energy Institute at the University of Chicago, Chief Economist for President Obama’s Council of Economic Advisers, and co-founder of Climate Vault ...