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- 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 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…
- 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 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 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 to BLM on Moneta Divide Oil and Gas Project – …We submitted comments explaining why BLM should use the social cost of greenhouse gases to monetize and weigh the plan’s climate impacts.
- Expert Report on Colorado’s Zero Emission Vehicle Program – Peter Howard and Jason Schwartz provided an expert report on Colorado’s Zero Emission Vehicle program, which will reduce millions of tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually. They demonstrate how the program’s climate benefits can be monetized and how those estimates can provide useful context for decisionmakers and the public.
- Comments to FERC on Jordan Cove Natural Gas Project – We submitted joint comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on its environmental assessment of the Jordan Cove natural gas exports project in Oregon. FERC failed to provide a meaningful analysis of the pipeline’s climate effects.
- Comments to the Army Corps of Engineers on the Pebble Mine Project – We submitted joint comments on the Army Corps of Engineers’ environmental assessment of the Pebble Mine Project in southwest Alaska. The Corps quantifies greenhouse gas emissions from the project but fails to provide a monetized estimate of the climate damages those emissions will produce.
- Comments on Caballo West Federal Coal Lease – …year. Despite quantifying over 23 million tons of yearly carbon dioxide equivalent emissions, OSM does not include a monetized estimate of the climate damages those emissions will produce. We submitted joint comments asking that OSM use the social cost of greenhouse gases to better weigh the real-world impacts of potential…