| The administration will boost the figure it will use to assess the damage of greenhouse gas pollution to $51 per ton of carbon dioxide, more than seven times higher than the rate used by the Trump administration.
The number, known as the "social cost of carbon," will help inform federal decisions on purchasing, pollution controls and infrastructure projects, and sends a signal that the choices made now could lock in disastrous consequences or help avert the worst impacts. | 
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