A meeting of CAISO’s Greenhouse Gas Coordination Working Group illustrated the complexity Western stakeholders confront in addressing greenhouse gasses in the region’s expanding electricity markets.

Potential SPP Markets+ participants democratically endorsed the first pieces of the day-ahead market’s tariff, acquiring a taste of the grid operator’s stakeholder process at the same time.

A Pennsylvania judge blocked Gov. Tom Wolf’s effort to enter RGGI, saying the administration’s plan was a tax that lacked required legislative approval.

Most panelists urged FERC to support state and RTO efforts to introduce carbon pricing during a daylong technical conference.

PJM stakeholders continued talks over integrating carbon pricing while focusing on the impacts of states looking to join environmental collectives like RGGI.

A carbon workshop hosted by the EIM underscored how West Coast and Intermountain states can be uneasy partners in CAISO’s real-time market.

The New York Integrating Public Policy Task Force tackled the complex issue of avoiding the pitfall of “carbon leakage.”