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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 ...
The Irvine Police Department purchased a Tesla Cybertruck to promote its D.A.R.E drug program. But some taxpayers say the money should be spent elsewhere. Ten billion dollars doesn’t go far when it ...
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.
MICHAEL GREENSTONE: Climate change is central to what I do. I have a-- leading a big team called the Climate Impact Lab where we're trying to estimate what the cost of climate change will be. My ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Scientists have been trying to stash carbon emissions in rocks, soil and trees to slow the effects of climate change. Now an economics professor wants to trap carbon dioxide in the financial markets.