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- Comments to BLM on Evans McCurtain Oklahoma Coal Lease – …9.6 million tons of carbon dioxide equivalent emissions from direct, upstream, and downstream sources over about eight years. The agency, however, does not provide a monetized estimate of the climate damages those emissions will produce. We submitted joint comments asking that BLM use the social cost of greenhouse gases to…
- Comments on BLM Coal Leasing Environmental Assessment – The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently issued an Environmental Assessment (EA) for its decision to lift the Obama administration’s pause on the federal coal leasing program. We submitted comments explaining how the EA provides flawed and incomplete analysis of BLM’s legal authority, alternatives to resuming leasing, and environmental effects.
- California Incorporates Our Input on Societal Cost Test – …to conduct a societal cost test to determine the cost-effectiveness of DERs. Having been “persuaded by the arguments of the Institute for Policy Integrity,” the ruling will require utilities to calculate the climate benefits of DERs by using the Social Cost of Carbon estimate developed by the Interagency Working Group.…
- Comments to BLM on Lease Sales on Oklahoma and New Mexico – We recently submitted joint comments to the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) about environmental assessments for three planned oil and gas lease sales in Oklahoma and New Mexico. BLM estimates and quantifies some direct, upstream, and downstream greenhouse gas emissions from the leasing plans, but fails to include a monetized…
- Comments to DOE on Energy Conservation Standards for Small Motors – The Department of Energy called for input on developing and analyzing energy conservation standards for small electric motors. We submitted comments encouraging DOE to account for the monetized climate benefits of greenhouse gas emissions using social cost of carbon estimates.
- Comments on Georgia’s Electric Utility Resource Plan – Georgia Power Company recently published its 2019 electric utility resource plan, which includes projected future costs of different energy generation programs. We submitted comments asking that Georgia Power more clearly quantify and monetize the greenhouse gas emissions of electricity generation alternatives.
- Testimony to New Jersey Legislature on Valuing Climate Impacts – …can contextualize and weigh climate impacts by using the social cost of greenhouse gases.
- Comments to BLM on Environmental Impacts of Federal Oil and Gas Leases – In response to a District Court order, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) recently prepared a Supplemental Environmental Assessment (EA) for five federal oil and gas leasing decisions issued in 2015 and 2016. We submitted comments that focus on the agency’s failure to adequately quantify greenhouse gas emissions and monetize…
- Comments on California Public Utilities Commission’s New Analysis Framework – …process for evaluating the social costs and benefits of energy resources. As we discussed in prior comments, the proposed analysis framework, the Societal Cost Test (SCT), will help the Commission to make investments that provide the greatest welfare benefits. Our new comments ask CPUC to provide some additional information in…
- Comments to DOE on Energy Conservation Standards for Direct Heating Equipment – The Department of Energy (DOE) recently issued a request for information on the energy conservation standards for direct heating equipment. We submitted comments that advise the Department to monetize climate benefits from greenhouse gas emissions reductions and discuss market-based approaches to energy conservation standards.