MATTER OF L. 2018, C. 16

DOCKET NO. A-3939-18.

250 A.3d 1136 (2021)

467 N.J. Super. 154

In the MATTER OF the IMPLEMENTATION OF L. 2018, C. 16 REGARDING the ESTABLISHMENT OF a ZERO EMISSION CERTIFICATE PROGRAM FOR ELIGIBLE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS, and Application for Zero Emission Certificates of Salem 1 Nuclear Power Plant, Application for Zero Emission Certificates of Salem 2 Nuclear Power Plant, Application for Zero Emission Certificates of Hope Creek Nuclear Power Plant.

Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division.

Decided March 19, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stefanie A. Brand , Director, argued the cause for intervenor-appellant New Jersey Division of Rate Counsel ( Stefanie A. Brand , attorney; Stefanie A. Brand , Brian O. Lipman , Litigation Manager, and Sarah H. Steindel , Assistant Deputy Rate Counsel, on the briefs).

David Chester Apy , Assistant Attorney General, argued the cause for respondent New Jersey Board of Public Utilities ( Gurbir S. Grewal , Attorney General, attorney; Melissa H. Raksa , Assistant Attorney General, of counsel; Alex Moreau , Deputy Attorney General, on the brief).

Christopher S. Porrino argued the cause for intervenors-respondents Public Service Enterprise Group Incorporated and PSEG Nuclear, LLC (Lowenstein Sandler, LLP, attorneys; Christopher S. Porrino , Peter Slocum , Tamara Linde , Grace H. Park , Aaron I. Karp , and Joseph Accardo, Jr. , on the brief).

Steven S. Goldenberg , Red Bank, argued the cause for intervenor-respondent New Jersey Large Energy Users Coalition (Giordano, Halleran & Ciesla, PC, attorneys; Steven S. Goldenberg , of counsel and on the brief).

George C. Jones , Morristown, argued the cause for intervenor-respondent PJM Power Providers Group (McElroy, Deutsch, Mulvaney & Carpenter, LLP, attorneys; Joseph P. LaSala , of counsel; George C. Jones , on the brief).

Matthew M. Weissman , attorney for intervenor-respondent Public Service Electric and Gas Company; Cozen O'Connor, PC, attorney for intervenor-respondent Jersey Central Power & Light Company; and Philip J. Passanante , attorney for intervenor-respondent Atlantic City Electric Company ( Matthew M. Weissman , Gregory Eisenstark , and Philip J. Passanante , on the joint brief).

Day Pitney, LLP, Jeanne J. Dworetzky (Exelon Generation Company, LLC) of the District of Columbia bar, admitted pro hac vice, and Matthew E. Price (Jenner & Block, LLP) of the District of Columbia and Massachusetts bars, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys for intervenor-respondent Exelon Generation Company, LLC ( Christopher John Stracco , Jeanne J. Dworetzky , Matthew E. Price , and Andrew J. Lichtman , on the brief).

Carlin & Ward, PC and Jeffrey W. Mayes (Monitoring Analytics, LLC) of the Pennsylvania, Virginia, and District of Columbia bars, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys for intervenor-respondent Monitoring Analytics, LLC ( Michael J. Ash and Jeffrey W. Mayes , of counsel and on the brief).

Szaferman, Lakind, Blumstein & Blader, PC, attorneys for amicus curiae AARP ( Janine G. Bauer , on the brief and Evelyn Liebman ).

Connell Foley, LLP, and Ann Brewster Weeks (Clean Air Task Force) of the Massachusetts bar, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys for amicus curiae Clean Air Task Force ( Thomas S. Cosma and Ann Brewster Weeks , on the brief).

Richard M. Pescatore, PC, and Bethany A. Davis Noll (Institute for Policy Integrity) of the New York bar, admitted pro hac vice, attorneys for amicus curiae Institute For Policy Integrity ( Jennifer Carlson and Bethany A. Davis Noll , on the brief).

Sills Cummis & Gross, PC, attorneys for amicus curiae Nuclear Energy Institute, Inc. ( Peter G. Verniero and Michael S. Carucci , of counsel and on the brief).

Before Judges Whipple, Rose, and Firko.


The opinion of the court was delivered by

In 2007, the New Jersey Legislature passed the Global Warming Response Act, N.J.S.A. 26:2C-37 to -68, having declared that it was in the State's interest to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by eighty percent by 2050. In furtherance of that goal, in 2018 the Legislature enacted a Zero...

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