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- New Mexico PRC Adopts Plan to Replace San Juan Coal Plant with Renewables Portfolio – In 2022, New Mexico’s largest utility company will retire the San Juan Generating Station, a coal-burning power plant that has operated since 1973. In light of the decision, the state’s Public Regulatory Commission (PRC) has adopted a plan to replace the plant’s power output with 100 percent renewable energy and…
- July 2020 at Policy Integrity – …Integrity Policy Victories: The Social Cost of Carbon How Deregulation Has Worsened the Pandemic Litigation Updates: Auto Emissions Standards, Student Borrowers, Clean Water Protections FERC Rejects Petition Threatening Net Metering In the News: Activism, Legal Challenges Yield Major Pipeline Setbacks New Article on the Social Cost of Carbon Commentary: Corporate…
- Amicus Brief in D.C. Circuit on Tennessee Pipeline Extension – …quantify the project’s emissions and monetize climate damages using Social Cost of Carbon estimates is arbitrary.
- Implementing NEPA in the Age of Climate Change – Under the National Environmental Policy Act, agencies must consider the environmental impacts of major federal actions before they can move forward. But agencies frequently downplay or ignore the climate change impacts of their projects in NEPA analyses, citing a slew of technical difficulties and uncertainties. This article, published in the…
- Fighting for the Full Valuation of Climate Damages – …ensure that governments, regulators, and courts account for the social cost of carbon in policy and decisionmaking—and a string of recent policy outcomes has created positive momentum.
- Comments to FERC on PennEast Amendment Project – …fails to meaningfully assess the impact of emissions using social cost of carbon metrics.
- FERC’s Carbon Blind Spot – …for the environmental and social cost of carbon emissions. Given FERC’s obsession with promoting economic efficiency, its reluctance to address such a glaring inefficiency is puzzling, Davis Noll and Unel argue. Like others before them, they suggest that an agency-imposed surcharge on the wholesale price of high-carbon energy—a “carbon adder”—could…
- ‘Billions of Dollars in Climate Harm’: Green Groups Seek Rehearing of Rio Grande LNG Redesign Approval – A coalition of South Texas community groups and environmental organiztions has challenged U.S. federal regulators' decision last month to approve a scaled-down Rio Grande LNG facility. The suit filed in June has attracted interest from outside groups, with New York University's Institute for Policy Integrity submitting an amicus brief.
- Comments to Arizona on Integrated Resource Planning – …expect to result from greenhouse gas emissions using the social cost of carbon.
- Comments to EPA on Airplane Emissions Regulations – …and describe how the agency can correctly apply the social cost of carbon.