Republicans are working on legislation that could allow power plants to avoid expensive upgrades under the EPA New Source Review (NSR) program.

The Republican majority at FERC narrowed the circumstances under which it will estimate greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from natural gas pipeline projects.

NYISO is floating a proposal that would incorporate the social cost of carbon into the ISO’s wholesale market by debiting each energy supplier a uniform carbon emissions charge as part of its settlement.

The leaders of two key Maine legislative committees told Massachusetts regulators that they oppose the New England Clean Energy Connect (NECEC).

A recently passed New Jersey law could lead to the state subsidizing nuclear plants outside its borders, Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) CEO Ralph Izzo said during his company’s first-quarter (Q1 2018) earnings call Monday.

To model the impacts of carbon pricing on dispatch, resource costs and emissions in its wholesale electricity market, New York would do well to start by estimating a social cost of carbon (SCC), experts told a state task force Monday.

James Baker, an eminent Republican official who served in the Reagan and first Bush administrations, explained his proposed carbon tax at the GCPA spring conference.

The New York Public Service Commission approved a seven-year tariff for the Consolidated Edison (Con Ed) electric vehicle (EV) quick-charging station program and other REV initiatives.

California lawmakers moved forward with several pieces of energy legislation, but items such as a 100% RPS and CAISO regionalization seem to be on hold.

At this week's meeting of the IPPTF, NYISO presented two options for pricing carbon emissions in its markets, saying neither would require changes to its software or the frequency of settlements.