So, you know, one thing that is interesting to me is that if you get away from Congress, into courts and into administrative agencies, which are forums in which facts tend to have to be factual and economics tend to have to be real and false and misleading statements tend to be punished, you see a really strong and, in fact, inevitable move toward a social cost of carbon.
Whitehouse discusses the judicial and administrative push for recognizing a social cost of carbon.
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