EPA quietly pushes expensive carbon tax

The Environmental Protection Agency has proposed a significant increase in the social cost of carbon emissions. 

Policymakers use the social cost of carbon to calculate economic damages associated with a rise in greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels. 

Federal agencies under the Biden administration have been using a value of $51 per metric ton of CO2 – which in itself was a steep climb from the Trump administration’s $1 per metric ton. 

Now the EPA is proposing to go even higher, at $190 per metric ton. Among other effects, raising this cost is likely...