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The global cost of carbon emissions: A lingering quandary for policy /  Joel Darmstadter, Common Resources, 3/07/2013http://common-resources.org/2013/the-global-cost-of-carbon-emissions-a-lingering-quandary-for-policyThe federal government has a new estimate for the global social cost of carbon emissions. A recent “Technical Support Document” bears the more elaborate and dispassionate sub-title: “Technical Update of the Social Cost of Carbon for Regulatory Impact Analysis—Under Executive Order 12866.” That Executive Order, among other things, allows “agencies to incorporate the social benefits of reducing carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions into cost-benefit analysis of regulatory actions that impact cumulative global emissions...