The Council on Environmental Quality issued final guidance in 2016 on considering GHG emissions and climate change in NEPA reviews. This guidance was withdrawn by the Trump Administration in 2017.
Identified seven different ways for existing facilities to comply with cooling water restrictions, while finding that closed-cycle cooling towers provide the most efficient technology.
NYU’s Environmental Law Journal published a 2019 article on FERC’s authority to price carbon dioxide emissions.
Proposes that through FERC’s authority over electricity rates, power contracts, and utility planning, the agency can influence the cost-effectiveness of new generation and new infrastructure by putting a price on emissions.
Argues that the federal government currently fails to account for option value in its public land management processes, resulting in suboptimal environmental, social, and economic outcomes for the American public, to whom these lands belong.
The Obama Administration’s Secretary’s Order 3338 prohibited new coal exploration on public lands for a period. This type of EO could be seen as a model for a future president to apply to all fossil fuels.
Surveyed practices across independent system operators in response to FERC’s Order 1000.
Imposed on all public utility electric transmission providers the need to develop regional transmission plans. Those plans must consider non-transmission options as well as transmission options.
An analysis of recent efforts to use the SCC as a direct value for taxes and subsidies applied to economic activity with a negative or positive carbon impact.
Resources for the Future coordinate economists and scientists to improve the science behind estimates of the SCC. They have published a range of briefs, reports, and testimony on improving utilization of the SCC.