Carter Smith
@carterfielden.bsky.social
Former (DOGE’d) EPA OGC.
DC resident from TLH.
CTBO and BMFS evangelist.
Views mine.
DC resident from TLH.
CTBO and BMFS evangelist.
Views mine.
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Carter Smith
@carterfielden.bsky.social
· Mar 19
Reorienting Climate Law and Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy and the Problem of Social Cost of Carbon Pricing
By Carter F. Smith, Published on 02/17/25
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu
BOLD CLAIM ⚠️ALERT⚠️: my new article on
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
Our heads are buried in the sand, and our leaders keep digging deeper holes.
In protest of EPA’s hearings on the GHG endangerment finding this week, have a listen to Watch It Fall by @billystrings.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=y97g...
In protest of EPA’s hearings on the GHG endangerment finding this week, have a listen to Watch It Fall by @billystrings.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=y97g...
Billy Strings - Watch It Fall (Official Video)
YouTube video by Billy Strings
m.youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Our heads are buried in the sand, and our leaders keep digging deeper holes.
In protest of EPA’s hearings on the GHG endangerment finding this week, have a listen to Watch It Fall by @billystrings.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=y97g...
In protest of EPA’s hearings on the GHG endangerment finding this week, have a listen to Watch It Fall by @billystrings.com
m.youtube.com/watch?v=y97g...
Some personal news. Would appreciate all the LinkedIn luv I can get. Eventually, I’ll need another real job 🥳
August 19, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Some personal news. Would appreciate all the LinkedIn luv I can get. Eventually, I’ll need another real job 🥳
Climate scientists deserve a collective noun (esp. for groups of more than a few outliers).
I propose: “consensus.” As in, a consensus of climate scientists.
ChatGPT says it’s available.
Any better options?
I propose: “consensus.” As in, a consensus of climate scientists.
ChatGPT says it’s available.
Any better options?
August 14, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Climate scientists deserve a collective noun (esp. for groups of more than a few outliers).
I propose: “consensus.” As in, a consensus of climate scientists.
ChatGPT says it’s available.
Any better options?
I propose: “consensus.” As in, a consensus of climate scientists.
ChatGPT says it’s available.
Any better options?
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I wrote an article about the policy irrelevance of the social cost of carbon in the hopes of prompting an uncomfortable conversation about the future use of the metric.
So I was excited to see that @Revkin asked @CassSunstein about my critique 🧵
revkin.substack.com/p/a-fresh-lo...
So I was excited to see that @Revkin asked @CassSunstein about my critique 🧵
revkin.substack.com/p/a-fresh-lo...
A Fresh Look at Climate [In]Justice (and Trump 2.0) with Cass Sunstein
I hope you’ll listen to, and share, this conversation on climate policy in the age of Trump (and lots more) with the wide-ranging Harvard economist Cass Sunstein. Sunstein worked under two presidents ...
revkin.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 3:23 PM
I wrote an article about the policy irrelevance of the social cost of carbon in the hopes of prompting an uncomfortable conversation about the future use of the metric.
So I was excited to see that @Revkin asked @CassSunstein about my critique 🧵
revkin.substack.com/p/a-fresh-lo...
So I was excited to see that @Revkin asked @CassSunstein about my critique 🧵
revkin.substack.com/p/a-fresh-lo...
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The future benefits of abatement exceed present costs, yes.
But many technical issues—including the proper discount rate—turn on whether one’s cost-benefit analysis attempts to weigh changes in real welfare, or whether it asks how much future people would pay us today to abate. 1/
But many technical issues—including the proper discount rate—turn on whether one’s cost-benefit analysis attempts to weigh changes in real welfare, or whether it asks how much future people would pay us today to abate. 1/
Another way of putting it: someone 100 years in the future, looking around at the benefits clean energy has brought, will look back at someone today and say, "yes, obviously, spend whatever you need to spend to get here as rapidly as possible! There's no conceivable way you could spend 'too much'!"
August 12, 2025 at 2:53 PM
The future benefits of abatement exceed present costs, yes.
But many technical issues—including the proper discount rate—turn on whether one’s cost-benefit analysis attempts to weigh changes in real welfare, or whether it asks how much future people would pay us today to abate. 1/
But many technical issues—including the proper discount rate—turn on whether one’s cost-benefit analysis attempts to weigh changes in real welfare, or whether it asks how much future people would pay us today to abate. 1/
An oldie but a goodie. Originally presented for an @rff.org forum, long before webinars.
"The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth Boulding.
arachnid.biosci.utexas.edu/courses/thoc...
"The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth Boulding.
arachnid.biosci.utexas.edu/courses/thoc...
August 8, 2025 at 4:58 PM
An oldie but a goodie. Originally presented for an @rff.org forum, long before webinars.
"The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth Boulding.
arachnid.biosci.utexas.edu/courses/thoc...
"The Economics of the Coming Spaceship Earth" by Kenneth Boulding.
arachnid.biosci.utexas.edu/courses/thoc...
Sorry folks, I've been slacking on my #BMFS evangelism.
I kid you not, this song brought tears to my eyes the last time I saw them in Charlottesville.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoz...
I kid you not, this song brought tears to my eyes the last time I saw them in Charlottesville.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoz...
Billy Strings - Feb. 14, 2020 - She Makes My Love Come Rolling Down - Asheville, NC
YouTube video by romulan42
www.youtube.com
August 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Sorry folks, I've been slacking on my #BMFS evangelism.
I kid you not, this song brought tears to my eyes the last time I saw them in Charlottesville.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoz...
I kid you not, this song brought tears to my eyes the last time I saw them in Charlottesville.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWoz...
This forefront of climate reform could be a new source of hope for the climate movement,
Especially in light of EPA’s trajectory on GHGs
Especially in light of EPA’s trajectory on GHGs
BOLD CLAIM ⚠️ALERT⚠️: my new article on
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
Reorienting Climate Law and Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy and the Problem of Social Cost of Carbon Pricing
By Carter F. Smith, Published on 02/17/25
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu
July 30, 2025 at 2:03 AM
This forefront of climate reform could be a new source of hope for the climate movement,
Especially in light of EPA’s trajectory on GHGs
Especially in light of EPA’s trajectory on GHGs
Reposted by Carter Smith
This is what reimagining climate policy really looks like
July 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is what reimagining climate policy really looks like
Anyone have their hands on EPA’s proposed endangerment rule yet?
July 29, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Anyone have their hands on EPA’s proposed endangerment rule yet?
Climate advocates need to think several steps ahead and strategize.
I am also afraid the amusement will end b/c there's a real chance (>20%) this admin succeeds in eliminating EPA's Clean Air Act authority over GHGs.
Here's why:
🧵
I am also afraid the amusement will end b/c there's a real chance (>20%) this admin succeeds in eliminating EPA's Clean Air Act authority over GHGs.
Here's why:
🧵
Trump's EPA is going to try to overturn the endangerment finding. That should be amusing to watch. (At least until SCOTUS caves & gives it to him, at which point the amusement will end.)
E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
www.nytimes.com
July 24, 2025 at 1:06 AM
Climate advocates need to think several steps ahead and strategize.
I am also afraid the amusement will end b/c there's a real chance (>20%) this admin succeeds in eliminating EPA's Clean Air Act authority over GHGs.
Here's why:
🧵
I am also afraid the amusement will end b/c there's a real chance (>20%) this admin succeeds in eliminating EPA's Clean Air Act authority over GHGs.
Here's why:
🧵
Reposted by Carter Smith
The EPA just took the first of what could be many steps to undercut coal ash regulations, making more drinking water supplies vulnerable to the toxic pollution.
Trump’s EPA delays rules requiring toxic coal ash cleanup
The agency’s move to extend compliance deadlines for “legacy” coal ash dumps is the latest in a string of Trump admin attacks on environmental regulations.
www.canarymedia.com
July 23, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The EPA just took the first of what could be many steps to undercut coal ash regulations, making more drinking water supplies vulnerable to the toxic pollution.
This is what reimagining climate policy really looks like
July 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
This is what reimagining climate policy really looks like
Before misinterpreting the breadth of the #SCOTUS prohibition on “universal” injunctions,
Take note of ACB’s fn 1.
This foremost footnote suggests—at the outset—that SCOTUS’s prohibition does not categorically extend to all
“Nationwide” injunctions.
Take note of ACB’s fn 1.
This foremost footnote suggests—at the outset—that SCOTUS’s prohibition does not categorically extend to all
“Nationwide” injunctions.
June 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
Before misinterpreting the breadth of the #SCOTUS prohibition on “universal” injunctions,
Take note of ACB’s fn 1.
This foremost footnote suggests—at the outset—that SCOTUS’s prohibition does not categorically extend to all
“Nationwide” injunctions.
Take note of ACB’s fn 1.
This foremost footnote suggests—at the outset—that SCOTUS’s prohibition does not categorically extend to all
“Nationwide” injunctions.
If Trump can change his mind about fighting foreign wars,
maybe he’ll come around on climate change too.
maybe he’ll come around on climate change too.
June 19, 2025 at 7:24 PM
If Trump can change his mind about fighting foreign wars,
maybe he’ll come around on climate change too.
maybe he’ll come around on climate change too.
Reposted by Carter Smith
We will soon face a massive 2008-level crisis that will stem from homes that can no longer be sold because climate change has made them uninsurable.
Breaking News: California is allowing State Farm to charge an extra 17% for homeowners’ insurance, after already approving a 20% hike last year.
California Approves 17 Percent Rate Increase for State Farm
www.nytimes.com
May 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
We will soon face a massive 2008-level crisis that will stem from homes that can no longer be sold because climate change has made them uninsurable.
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High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide - Nature Climate Change
While climate injustice is widely recognized, a quantification of how emissions inequality translates into unequal accountability is still lacking. Here researchers examine how affluent groups disprop...
www.nature.com
May 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
High-income groups disproportionately contribute to climate extremes worldwide
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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👇🏽This is really wild . An actual climate change clarion call
OK, this is wild.
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
In September 2023, geophysicists across the world started monitoring a very odd signal coming from the ground under them.
It was picked up in the Arctic. And Antarctica. It was detected everywhere, every 90 seconds, as regular as a metronome, for *nine days*.
What the HELL?
1/
May 12, 2025 at 7:31 PM
👇🏽This is really wild . An actual climate change clarion call
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There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
May 7, 2025 at 12:11 PM
There’s so much happening right now, I thought I’d put together a running thread on the dismantling of #climate and research and knowledge infrastructure in the United States 🧵
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EPA & Trump exempted the 7 coal units claiming technology to meet the safer pollution limit is “not available,” even though the units have electrostatic precipitators, baghouses, and/or wet scrubbers that have met the limit.
The EPA-Trump exemption lets them turn off/turn down the controls. 2/
The EPA-Trump exemption lets them turn off/turn down the controls. 2/
Fun fact: Trump’s EPA, Zeldin & Trump just exempted 7 of the biggest coal-burning power plant units in Georgia from complying with hazardous air pollution standards, even though all have pollution controls installed, Georgia customers are paying for them, & the plants have met the tighter limits. 1/
May 3, 2025 at 3:18 PM
EPA & Trump exempted the 7 coal units claiming technology to meet the safer pollution limit is “not available,” even though the units have electrostatic precipitators, baghouses, and/or wet scrubbers that have met the limit.
The EPA-Trump exemption lets them turn off/turn down the controls. 2/
The EPA-Trump exemption lets them turn off/turn down the controls. 2/
Rory showed resilience this week in a way I’ve never seen at a Masters.
Truly inspirational.
Truly inspirational.
April 14, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Rory showed resilience this week in a way I’ve never seen at a Masters.
Truly inspirational.
Truly inspirational.
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BOLD CLAIM ⚠️ALERT⚠️: my new article on
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
Reorienting Climate Law and Economics: Carbon Recovery Fees Versus Climate Industrial Policy and the Problem of Social Cost of Carbon Pricing
By Carter F. Smith, Published on 02/17/25
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu
March 19, 2025 at 7:44 PM
BOLD CLAIM ⚠️ALERT⚠️: my new article on
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
climate law & econ anticipates the next forefront of climate reform 🧐
This piece is built upon the foundational work of the following scholars and practitioners.
🧵
digitalcommons.law.lsu.edu/jelr/vol13/i...
Reposted by Carter Smith
Economists today are feeling a little like climate scientists for the last 30 years.
Not a fun club.
Not a fun club.
April 3, 2025 at 1:07 PM
Economists today are feeling a little like climate scientists for the last 30 years.
Not a fun club.
Not a fun club.
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I love microbes.🤩
A year ago, scientists found some that would eat PFASs, and they can make #carbonsinks.
The biodiversity and economic potential here is massive.🦠🦠🦠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A year ago, scientists found some that would eat PFASs, and they can make #carbonsinks.
The biodiversity and economic potential here is massive.🦠🦠🦠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Microbes can capture carbon and degrade plastic — why aren’t we using them more?
Interventions involving bacteria or fungi could help to sequester greenhouse gases, create more sustainable products and clean up pollution — in ways that are economically viable and safe.
www.nature.com
March 28, 2025 at 1:37 AM
I love microbes.🤩
A year ago, scientists found some that would eat PFASs, and they can make #carbonsinks.
The biodiversity and economic potential here is massive.🦠🦠🦠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
A year ago, scientists found some that would eat PFASs, and they can make #carbonsinks.
The biodiversity and economic potential here is massive.🦠🦠🦠
www.nature.com/articles/d41...