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- Comments to DOE on Energy Conservation Standards for Distribution Transformers – The Department of Energy (DOE) recently asked for input on energy conservation standards for certain electrical grid equipment. We submitted comments encouraging DOE to continue monetizing the full climate benefits of greenhouse gas emissions reductions.
- Comments on Proposed Process Changes for Setting Energy Conservation Standards – The Department of Energy (DOE) recently proposed changes to its process for prescribing energy conservation standards for consumer products and commercial/industrial equipment. We submitted comments explaining how DOE’s proposed energy savings thresholds and consumer test are unjustified and will reduce important consumer and environmental benefits.
- Comments to Minnesota on Electric Resource Planning and the Social Cost of Carbon – …the agencies to continue requiring the use of the social cost of carbon.
- Comments to BLM on Eastern Colorado Resource Management Plan – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its draft resource management plan for the Eastern Colorado planning area, projecting millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions per year from oil and gas development, coal production, and downstream emissions. We submitted joint comments focusing on BLM’s failure to monetize climate damages…
- Court Upholds New York’s Zero-Emissions Credit Program for Nuclear Power – The Albany County Supreme Court rejected a challenge to New York’s Zero-Emissions Credit (ZEC) program, which pays nuclear power plants for the value of avoided carbon emissions. The legal challenge focused largely on the state’s decision to use the Interagency Working Group’s Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) to value emissions.
- Comments to BLM on Utah Oil and Gas Lease Sale – …real-world climate impacts of the lease sales using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Testimony on Retirement of the San Juan Coal-Fired Power Plant – …plant in New Mexico. Their testimony details how applying Social Cost of Carbon metrics would allow the Commission to better monetize and contextualize the climate impacts of the proposal. Retiring the San Juan coal units would deliver billions of dollars in benefits to agricultural productivity, property values, and human health.
- Comments on Colorado’s Use of the Social Cost of Greenhouse Gases – …recent clean energy bill, providing more information on how social cost of greenhouse gases (SCGG) estimates will be used. We submitted comments encouraging best practices for SCGG application that will help CPUC monetize climate externalities and weigh the costs and benefits of various decisions.
- Comments to BLM on New Mexico Oil and Gas Lease Sale – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) released its environmental assessment of a February 2020 lease sale in the Carlsbad Field Office region of New Mexico. We submitted joint comments asking BLM to monetize the real-world climate impacts of projected emissions using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Comments to BLM on Willow Master Development Plan – …the real-world climate effects of those emissions using the social cost of greenhouse gases.