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City administrator outlines Climate Commitment Act implications for municipal gas utility; council asked to consider policy choices
Summary
City Administrator Chris Searcy told council Uniontown is marginally above the CCA 25,000 metric-ton threshold, described allowance mechanics and potential customer bill impacts, and suggested policy options including full cost recovery for new connections and coordination with other municipal utilities.
Uniontown — City Administrator Chris Searcy briefed the City Council on March 9 about the state Climate Commitment Act (CCA), what it means for the city’s municipal natural-gas utility and possible policy steps the city may take.
"The CCA was enacted by the legislature back in 2021," Searcy said, explaining the program is a cap-and-invest approach that requires covered entities to obtain annual carbon allowances equal to their greenhouse-gas emissions. He told council the city’s average emissions from 2023 through 2025 were a little over 25,000 metric tons — just above the program’s threshold.
Searcy…
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