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ScoredACRCoal Mine MethaneILLINOIS, USRegistry: Moved to another programGeneral Methodologyv2.1

New Era Abandoned Mine Methane Recovery Project

Developer: Keyrock Environment LLC

ACR-578 ↗

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#242of 529 in Methane#762of 1661 in United States#397of 934 in American Carbon Registry (ACR)

Moved to another program

The project has moved to another GHG program; any new credits are issued there, not on this registry.

American Carbon Registry: “TRANSFERRED”

Assessment

CarbonMeld document-based assessment

01020304 Overall 5.0 / 10
Integrity 🔒 Transparency 🔒 Claim Safety 🔒 Documentation 🔒
Dimension scores are locked — the faint arcs are empty tracks, not zero scores.

Scale 0–10 · method weights: integrity 35% · transparency 25% · claim safety 25% · documentation 15%.

Scored2026-09-13medium confidenceLatest verified monitoring: 2023-12-31

evidence:9/9registry documents analyzed · 5red flags

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Analysis

The New Era Abandoned Mine Methane Recovery Project (ACR-578, Illinois) is a coal-mine methane capture project with a modeled baseline and no material findings or corrective actions reported. However, the record is weakened by low extraction confidence, unexplained discrepancies in ERR figures across monitoring and verification reports, and the absence of documented additionality verification, leakage treatment, and safeguards. The project type inherently carries no carbon-stock reversal risk, but the evidentiary gaps limit confidence in the credit claims.

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Findings

Risk Indicators

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Evidence

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Eligibility & market

What can you claim with this credit?

Four checks buyers ask about, from the registry and the Integrity Council (ICVCM).

  • Airlines (CORSIA)

    No CORSIA label on the registry

    Not usable for airlines' CORSIA obligations.

    Source: registry label

  • Integrity label (ICVCM CCP)

    Methodology under ICVCM assessmentACR Capturing and Destroying Methane from Coal

    The Integrity Council has not decided on this methodology yet.

    Source: ICVCM assessment

  • Removal or reduction

    Emission reduction or avoidance

    Prevents or reduces emissions — fits contribution claims, not SBTi neutralisation.

    Source: project sector

  • Paris Agreement (Article 6)

    No Article 6 authorization

    No corresponding adjustment: the host country can also count this reduction towards its own target.

    Source: registry label

Information only, from public sources. Claim rules (CORSIA, SBTi, EU rules on green claims) change: check them before making a public claim. Since 27 September 2026, EU consumer rules do not allow “climate neutral” product claims based on offsets.

Registry labels last checked:2026-10-04

Credit Vintages Exhausted

IssuedRetiredAvailable
2021
94,88000
2022
77,17100
2023
68,91400
2024
220,26200
Total461,22700

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Analysis ProvenanceGeneral Methodologyv2.1
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