{"id":12695,"date":"2013-10-15T19:35:38","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T00:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/?p=12695"},"modified":"2016-03-23T19:36:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-24T00:36:41","slug":"history-repeats-itself-again-cares-new-cost-analysis-paints-a-one-sided-picture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.edf.org\/energyexchange\/2013\/10\/15\/history-repeats-itself-again-cares-new-cost-analysis-paints-a-one-sided-picture\/","title":{"rendered":"History Repeats Itself Again: CARE\u2019s New Cost Analysis Paints a One-Sided Picture"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Major polluters funding skewed analysis of the costs and benefits of environmental regulations is a long-standing tradition<\/a> in regulatory circles. In a recent version of this phenomenon, CARE<\/a> (Californians for Affordable and Reliable Energy), an industry funded front group aimed at attacking clean energy and clean fuel policies<\/a> in California, hired Navigant Consulting<\/a> to do just that.<\/p>\n

Last week, EDF economists pulled back the curtain<\/a> on the recently released CARE report<\/a> and found more of the same scare tactics: one-sided costs estimates yielding unfounded results and cherry-picked outcomes.<\/p>\n

Unsurprisingly, our economists found that<\/a> the CARE study \u201cfocused exclusively on the costs of California\u2019s complementary clean energy and clean fuels policies while avoiding comparative assessment of the benefits.\u201d Additionally, the study was found to \u201crely on sources that have not been peer reviewed, and misinterpret analyses and energy market trends.\u201d<\/p>\n

Due to the noted inaccuracies of the study, the memo makes the point that \u201cpolicy makers should treat the Navigant study with extreme caution; it likely overstates costs while considering neither the benefits to be enjoyed nor the cost-minimizing aspects of policies carefully designed to deliver environmental benefits as efficiently and quickly as practicable.\u201d<\/p>\n

A CARE funded analysis that results in a one-sided finding shouldn\u2019t come as a shock. The group is funded by some of the largest polluters and fossil fuels producers in California – those that have the most obligations to change under the state\u2019s comprehensive clean energy and climate change laws. CARE members include the Western States Petroleum Association, the California Manufacturers & Technology Association and the California Chamber of Commerce, as reported on its website.<\/p>\n

As California transitions to cleaner, more diversified sources of energy, many businesses will be faced with the stark choice of participating in the modernization of our energy and transportation system or fighting against progress and innovation. Whichever way those businesses trend, the recent CARE report prepared by Navigant shows that misinformation will continue to be a part of the portfolio approach used by polluters to undermine California\u2019s progress.<\/p>\n

For other analysis of industry reports that have overblown costs and underestimated benefits of California\u2019s clean energy and clean fuels policies, read here<\/a>, and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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