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- Comments on California’s Distributed Energy Resources Policy – …to require the state’s utilities to conduct a societal cost test to help compare the net benefits of different DER technologies. We submitted comments to the CPUC commending the agency for its revisions to the proposed analysis and recommending additional improvements.
- Comments to FERC on Failure to Monetize Climate Effects of Riverdale Gas Pipeline – …did not use the social cost of greenhouse gases to monetize the climate effects of those emissions. In the EA, FERC incorrectly claims that it is impossible to determine the significance of a discrete amount of additional greenhouse gas emissions. Our comments dispel FERC’s arbitrary and misleading rationale and explain…
- Comments on the Rescission of BLM’s Waste Prevention Rule – …relied on the IWG’s Social Cost of Methane in the original analysis. Now, BLM has radically altered the analysis for the rule, claiming that the costs outweigh its benefits and the Bureau is justifying its decision to rescind or revise the rule based on this flawed rehashing of the effects,…
- Comments on Proposed Repeal of the Clean Power Plan – As the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues its rulemaking to repeal the Clean Power Plan, we submitted two sets of comments that challenge EPA’s legal and economic arguments for undoing this important climate policy.
- Comments on BLM’s Failure to Monetize Greenhouse Gas Emissions (Riley Ridge and Greater Mooses EISs) – …why each of BLM’s reasons for not using the social cost of greenhouse gases in these NEPA assessments fails, and how the agency leaves the public and decisionmakers in the dark about the climate effects of the project, in violation of NEPA.
- Expert Declaration on Using the Social Cost of Carbon in Environmental Assessments – …environmental, public health, and social welfare costs of two resource management plans finalized in 2015 by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in Montana and Wyoming. Part of a suit against BLM by the Western Organization of Resource Councils, this declaration was presented alongside declarations from other noted climate experts,…
- Oral Comments to EPA’s Science Advisory Board – …2016 Interagency Working Group’s Social Cost of Carbon estimates. We argue that EPA’s new “interim” estimate for the Social Cost of Carbon ignores the global nature of climate damage and obscures the devastating effects that climate change will have on future generations, and we strongly encourage review of the methods…
- Comments to New York on Offshore Wind Program – …the use of the Social Cost of Carbon to value the benefits of avoiding greenhouse-gas emissions in the state’s Offshore Wind Policy. We also explain that the proposal to pay for the benefits of offshore wind outside of the wholesale markets is a reasonable way to move closer to internalizing…
- Comments on FERC’s NOI on the Certification of Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Facilities – …submitted joint comments on the appropriate use of the social cost of carbon in the interstate natural gas facilities certification processes, including why and how greenhouse gas emissions should be monetized in FERC’s NEPA and Natural Gas Act analyses.
- Comments to the Nevada PUC on the Proposed Regulation to Implement SB 65 – …Interagency Working Group (IWG) Social Cost of Carbon (SCC) estimates to calculate the Present Worth of Societal Costs in Nevada, as reflected in the proposed regulation. In addition, we update the PUC on the use of the IWG SCC estimates in other states, including California, Colorado, Minnesota, New York and…