1 From: TSW11236@aol.com
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 11:11 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: A Plea for Good Governance and Our Survival



### Dear EPA Officials:

A s a retired nurse and healthcare executive, I wish to express my rising concern that avarice continues to trump efforts to clean up our environment in time for us to leave a livable environment for future generations.

Currently, there is no protection for public health from the dangers of carbon pollution, thanks, a great deal, to the coal industry lobbies and the money they pour into political campaigns. I know this for a fact after looking at the positive correlation between contributions and votes in favor of coal in my state of PA. It's appalling.

As a health professional, I read studies undeniably concluding that carbon pollution is responsible for thousands of deaths annually; children and the elderly being most at risk. These studies are endorsed by credible organizations such as the American Academy of Pediatrics and the American Lung Association.

I have been a Republican for decades, but the party to which I was loyal has morphed into an ugly group of
racist, anti-science extremists who lie and malign anything that has moral and ethical substance. The Christian right has abandoned their "Christian" foundations and are destroying our government, our environment and our reputation as a nation. Please, please, please stand up for the individual citizen, whose voice has been drowned out by legislation such as Citizens United, by the cannibalizing of voters' rights laws, and the cacophony resulting from vitriolic propaganda and the sound of huge amounts of corporate money negatively influencing elections.

Sincerely,

Tanya S. Wagner, R.N., M.Ed. 5007 Apache Drive Mechanicsburg, PA 17050-2564

Phone: 717-763-5756

Cell: 717-580-6680

FAX: 717-763-1449

e-mail: tsw11236@aol.com2 " Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe." -- Albert
Einstein3 From: Carol Meyer [wisdomways@planetkc.com]
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 11:00 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: My comments



## Dear EPA,

I am definitely in favor of the EPA putting stiff limits on the amount of carbon dioxide that can be emitted from coal-burning power plants. As the Executive Director of the Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition, a nonprofit that helps congregations in the Kansas City metro area to engage in Earth care, I am deeply dedicated to protecting our Earth. Collectively we need to do everything we can to reverse the environmental degradation that is occurring. The Earth is the source of our life and that of future generations, and we are being selfish and short-sighted if we are only concerned about money or preserving our modern way of life. We are in serious trouble and drastic measures are required. Limiting carbon emissions should be a no-brainer. We should phase our coal-burning plants entirely. There is no such thing as “clean coal.” We should be putting all our efforts into renewal energy and into reduction of electricity use. I don’t care how much it costs to regulate these power plants or how much our electricity bills go up. We are paying a much bigger price for NOT acting. We are paying the price in poor health and in trillions of dollars spent on climate disasters because of the warming of theplanet. The opponent of regulation have nothing to stand on. They are only arguing from selfinterest, not the greater good of everyone.

PLEASE do the right thing and do not cave in to special interest or monied groups. Regulate the coal-burning plants as much as humanly possible.

Thank you.

Carol Meyer

5019 W. 56 th 

## Street

Ro eland Park, KS 66205

913-677-8672

Carol Meyer

Ex ecutive Director, Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition www.ssckc.org

Like Us on Facebook! (913)677-867245 From: Rozina Kanchwala [rkanchwala@solarsanantonio.org]
Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 5:08 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Input to public listening session - Rozina Kanchwala



### Hi, my name is Rozina. I am from San Antonio and I work as the policy analyst at a non-profit organization

ca lled Solar San Antonio.

I would like to say given what we know about the state of the planet and the consequences it is having and will continue to have on living beings, the only logical thing to do is shut down existing coal plants, not set regulations that will go into effect years from now. This process of setting guidelines, waiting for public comments, then setting federal guidelines, then waiting for states to come up with their own plans is too slow. Waiting almost 3 years to enforce regulations on dirty technology is a response that will probably be too little,

too late.

Instead, why not set a deadline by which all existing coal plants must be shut off and focus on the real solutions, such as solar energy? Solar not employs more people than the fossil fuel industry, it is price competitive, and has miniscule negative externalities.

The EPA should be bold in its actions like it has been before in helping clean up our rivers and air. By setting a firm deadline, coal economies can make the transition to clean technologies in a way that will enhance their health, economies, and future.

A study by Mark Jacobsen of Stanford and Mark Delucci of the University of California has shown that the world’s energy needs can be met completely by wind, water, and solar energy even with a growing population.

The solution to the problem we face, which is climate change, is clean energy, not cleaner coal. Cleaner is not clean, and it is not good enough.

Thank you.

Rozina Kanchwala | Policy Analyst

118 Broadway, Suite 621, San Antonio, TX 78205
T: (210) 354-0236 | F:

(210) 354-3422
E: rkanchwala@solarsanantonio.org www.solarsanantonio.org67 From: Mary Anne Redmond [MRedmond@moneyconcepts.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 7:12 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: November 7, 2013, Input for Listening Session on Reducing Carbon Pollution



### Dear Person of the EPA,

I would love for you to reflect upon the following quotation by a teacher considered by many to be a living Saint:

" In truth, the progress and prosperity of humanity depend solely on the good that the people do for Nature ." – Amma (for some inspiring initiatives: http://amma.org/global-charities/green-initiatives )

When I attended an EPA hearing on coal-fired power plants, in Dallas several years ago, I listened to what I knew to be distortions proffered by one CEO of a well-known local electricity provider. (He stated that better technology did not exist.) I think that self-interest in “profit” is nothing new and quite obvious, surely, to you who have listened to the testimonials by many from business/industry or those in the community fearful of a weakened economy if more stringent standards are enacted & implemented.

What I think many people don’t understand is what Amma has so clearly stated, above. Their prosperity, our prosperity, depends on Nature, depends on how they, we, relate to Nature. This is my conviction. I also have the conviction that we have an infinite creative intelligence with grand win-win solutions, if we simply open to that possibility.

My background includes being a native of Dallas; beginning testifying at EPA standards for noise, water, and air, in 1970 when I was 15. When I prepared to testify at the air standards hearing, I studied very closely the proposed standards for both particulate & CO 2.



### My request then, as it is now, is to implement & enforce the most stringent environmental standards (in this case, on carbon emissions) necessary for ensuring the health of life forms (human, animal, plant) anywhere. I would like to see the federal government work to promote a guiding vision – and enforcement – for a civilization or culture that honors reverence for that which is totally health-supporting.

I know that many persons share my understanding that excellent means of (alternative) energy generation exist today, without use of coal-fired power plants or nuclear power. “Where there’s a will, there’s a way.” So this means the folks in the small towns can transform their lives and work in new settings and prosper & thrive in truly greater ways. It’s simply a matter of letting go of the “known” (health-compromising jobs & technologies) and embracing the “new” (what will ultimately mean greater health & wealth for their community).

The state of Texas hasn’t proven to be pro-active in guiding business interests into more responsible practices, with regard to environmental standards. So it’s up to you on the federal level.

In the quotation above, Amma, as you might surmise, has no self-interest in her statement and is simply stating Truth. She is giving us a vision of how to proceed.

I have been in the financial & investment world for about 21 years. I’m licensed as a Certified Financial Planner, Registered Financial Consultant, and stockbroker. I understand the dynamics, the views of those pulling one way or another, and I still stand firmly in the conviction that this is God’s world and we’re here to make the best of it and care in the best way possible for its inhabitants and gifts. I simply pray that you carry that same inspiration into your fine work day to day in the EPA, and honor the vision of the best for us today and of future
generations.8



### Also, an addendum with regard to the gentleman from Glen Rose I heard speak today. A friend of mine is the co-founder there of Fossil Rim, a remarkable, beautiful, 1700-acre wildlife preserve

. I know that she and many

ot hers in that community share my values and commitment to sustainable health-honoring & carbon-emissionminimizing environmental practices.

I appreciate your kind attention and diligence,



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Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:53 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: coal fired plant regulations



### Dear EPA:

Th is email is in regards to proposed regulations for existing coal fired plants. Working in the region of Coal County and being born and raised in the state of ND, I find energy and agriculture as the corner stone to a great state. The city of Beulah is going to celebrate its 100 th 

### year. The city was founded in part due to the coal reserves that were present at

t h at time. Coal has been the primary economic driving force for this area since the late 1970’s. To enforce currently unattainable regulations onto this industry would be most hurtful. ND boosts some of the best air quality in the nation. Our power plants are at the forefront of new technology. We also have a coal gasification plant that is a 100% carbon capture plant. The fertilizers produced from this plant help ND to keep at the front of the agricultural production power house. I am not opposed EPA regulations to protect the health, safety and welfare of the public. As an Agricultural and Biosystems Engineer by education and civil/mining engineer by profession, I am held to the responsibility of looking out for the health, safety and welfare of the public on a daily basis. I also obtained a degree in Process Plant Technology which focuses on features and inner workings of process plant such as the coal gasification, ethanol production, and other process plants. North Dakota is the envy of the country when it comes to economy, energy, agriculture, and stewards of the land. Think balance from the energy sector and practicality from regulations.

Travis Frey, EI
Mining Engineer The Coteau Properties Company

Freedom Mine 204 County Road 15
Beulah, ND 58523 Travis.Frey@nacoal.com

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Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 4:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comment on carbon pollution standards



### EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency. It does not stand for:

• Bu siness Protection Act

• Special Interest Protection Act

• Executive Profit Act

As such its charter is to protect the environment and to be blind to PACs and contributions/perks from revenue seeking entities. I strongly object to any easing of pollution standards. Human beings are entitled to breath clean air, drink clean water and eat safe, non-contaminated food.

If industry must build more coal and pollution generating plants, they should be first built in the backyards of the company’s CEOs. If the CEO is unwilling to breathe output from his/her plant, why should the rest of us be required to do so. At least a CEO is sufficiently compensated so he/she can afford health care when they
need it.

“it does not require many words to speak the truth” Chief Joseph (Nez Perce)



## Regards, Juanita13 From: lauren kahn [lauren.ok@mac.com]
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 12:42 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: You are our great defenders!



### The fossil fuel industry has lobbyists, and an obscene amount of money and power. We need you to stand up to

th ese powerful interests; for our health, our well-being, our communities, and ultimately the health of our nation. We cannot sustain continued production of dirty fossil fuels. Natural systems everywhere on land and sea are being affected dramatically, proof we have allowed corporate polluters to go too far.

Please put stringent regulations on coal-fired power plants. We are at a critical juncture in our history where the environmental threats could trump all--and in the very near future. Exercise your agency power and your individual intelligences. PLEASE DON'T ALLOW COAL TO WEAKEN, BLOCK OR DELAY TIGHTER

REGULATION. PLEASE SET RIGOROUS REGULATION NOW!

Thank you and best of luck,

Lauren Kahn14 From: Bonnie Nixon [bonnienixon@sustainround.com]
Sent: Monday, November 04, 2013 12:03 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: No Coal Plants!!! Solutions versus pollution



### Bonni e Nixon I Senior Advisor

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Sent: Tuesday, October 22, 2013 5:51 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Sources



### Dear EPA representative, We have a moral obligation to our children and future generations to address the causes of climate change. I support

st rong carbon pollution standard for EXISTING power plants, which are responsible for 40% of the carbon pollution that causes climate change. I support all coal fire plants being replaced with natural gas fired plants. Currently we protect public health from mercury, arsenic, soot and other air pollution, but there are no public health safeguards against carbon pollution.

Health Facts



### 1

. According to the American Lung Association, more than 35,000 premature deaths could be prevented by strong

carb on pollution standards. Millions of children live in areas that receive an “F” rating for at least one air quality

measure. 

### 2. Children, seniors and other vulnerable populations are at a higher risk of the health effects linked to climate

ch ange. 

### 3. According to a column in the New Jersey Star-Ledger, “More than 120 health organizations, including the

Am erican Academy of Pediatrics, American Lung Association, American Medical Association, American Nurses Association, American Public Health Association, American Thoracic Society and others, are on record stating: ‘Climate change is a serious public health issue. As temperatures rise, more Americans will be exposed to conditions that can result in illness and death due to respiratory illness, heat- and weather-related stress and disease carried by insects. These health issues are likely to have the greatest impact on our most vulnerable communities, including children, older adults, those with serious health conditions and the most economically disadvantaged.’” [Star Ledger (NJ), 5/15/12 ]

Thanks, Don L. Summerfield | Vice President Integrative Medicine 4940 Pearl East Circle, Ste 301 | Boulder, CO 80301 303.867.3108 | Fax 303.867.4108 | Cell: 303.588.3323 www.pharmaca.com16 From: Laurie S [laswimm@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, January 08, 2014 2:18 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: New Source Pollution Rule

I strongly support the EPA's proposal to limit industrial carbon pollution from new power plants.

It's not responsible for the U.S. to have NO limits on carbon pollution from power plants when they are such a large source of dangerous carbon pollution in our country, and in the world.

EPA's proposed clean air standards limiting dangerous carbon pollution from coal- and gas-fired power plants will be an important piece of protecting public health, fighting climate change, and helping our economy by sparking innovation in clean energy technologies.

Thank you for your time.

Laurie Swimm17 From: Karen McMillan [kmcmillan3@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, January 03, 2014 8:22 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Docket No. EPAHQOAR20110135; FRL-9799-6

I support President Obama's proposal to dramatically reduce air pollution by cleaning up our nation's gasoline and vehicles.

According to the American Lung Association, 42 percent of the U.S. population live in areas with unhealthy air and a major source of this pollution is emitted from vehicles. Standards for controlling smog-forming and soot pollution from passenger vehicles are key to reducing the health impacts of poor air quality, including asthma attacks, respiratory problems, and premature death. The new standards will not only bring cleaner air, but more American jobs as emissions control equipment manufacturers develop and manufacture technology to reduce

vehicle emissions.

Karen McMillan

POB 78174 Charlotte, NC 2827118 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Susan Stephenson [susan@theregenerationproject.org]
Sent: Monday, December 30, 2013 10:15 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 2013-12-30 10:15

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Susan Stephenson

Email: susan@theregenerationproject.org

Comments: December 5, 2013

The Honorable Gina McCarthy Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency William Jefferson Clinton Building Mail

Code 1101A 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., N.W. Washington, DC 20460

Dear Administrator McCarthy:

Interfaith Power & Light is strongly in support of limiting carbon from existing power plants.

Interfaith Power & Light is a network of people of faith who believe global warming is the moral crisis of our time. IPL has 40 state affiliates, reaching 15,000 congregations, and 5 million people of faith.

We believe that the United States has a responsibility to lead the world in responding to this crisis. As the world’s largest historic polluter, and the world’s richest nation with the most innovative technology, we need to develop, implement and demonstrate clean energy solutions. The first step is putting an end to unlimited, unchecked pollution from power plants.

Interfaith Power & Light (IPL) is helping congregations become models of energy stewardship. We’ve reduced our carbon pollution while saving money for other critical needs. We’ve shown that it can be done. But we know that our actions alone will not be enough as power plants are responsible for about 40% of carbon pollution in the U.S. We stand in support of strong

carbon Pollution Standards for Power Plants.

We are already reducing emissions in our facilities, thousands of which have made energy efficiency improvements and are using renewable energy. We believe there are a great many more “negawatts” that could be tapped by energy efficiency improvements that congregations could make. In order to encourage this voluntary action, it is important that these reductions be counted and quantified. Especially in states like California, where there is an existing cap on greenhouse gas emissions and a carbon credit system in place, there is a clear monetary value to each ton of carbon emissions. If the EPA could design a system where that monetary value is provided to the non- regulated entity, such as a congregation, to allow them to make the energy efficiency retrofits, we would see a great many more efficient facilities and immediate reductions in carbon pollution. The upfront cost of energy efficiency retrofits is a significant barrier for many small congregations and other nonprofits.19 As people of faith, we are called to be stewards of Creation. Climate change threatens the very balance of nature, which sustains life. As President Obama said, knowing what we know, not to act on climate change would be to “betray our children and future generations.”

We need coordinated federal action to effectively address global warming and power plant pollution. Thank you.

Sincerely,

Susan Stephenson

Executive Director Interfaith Power & Light

369 Pine St. Suite 700 San Francisco, CA 94104

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards20 From: Seth Federspiel [seth.federspiel@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 23, 2013 5:24 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: S111(d) Standards for Existing Power Plants



### Dear EPA,

I'm writing to express support for your work to implement carbon pollution standards for existing power plants using Section 111(d) of the Clean Air Act. Given the urgency of addressing climate change, I encourage you to enact the strong standards necessary to significantly reduce emission in the near term, with continually increasing stringency. With firm guidance, the states are a good forum through which to enact standards in a flexible and equitable manner. I urge you to stick to the President's timeline to complete this crucial work.

Sincerely,

Seth Federspiel

Arlington, MA21 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Beulah White [bswhite@att.net]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 5:51 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 20, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

My family and I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to timely clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ms. Beulah White

2605 El Camino Dr Middletown, OH 45044-712722 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Rebecca Troeller [rebecco.troeller@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:34 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:33

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Rebecca Troeller

Email: rebecco.troeller@gmail.com

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards23 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Marilyn Bazinski [marilynbazinski@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:34 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:33

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Marilyn Bazinski

Email: marilynbazinski@sbcglobal.net

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards24 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Baraba Brown [brown121@charter.net]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:33 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:33

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Baraba Brown

Email: brown121@charter.net

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards25 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Betty Koepsel [bkoepsel1@aol.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:33 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:33

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Betty Koepsel

Email: bkoepsel1@aol.com

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards26 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Marie Garwood [stereopsis1953@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:33 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:32

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Marie Garwood

Email: stereopsis1953@gmail.com

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards27 

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From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Heidi Deninger-Kinney [hjdeinin@uwalumni.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:32

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Heidi Deninger-Kinney

Email: hjdeinin@uwalumni.com

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards28 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Colleen M O'Brien [colleenmobrien@centurytel.net]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:32

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Colleen M O'Brien

Email: colleenmobrien@centurytel.net

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards29 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Patricia Borgman [peborgman@gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:31

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Patricia Borgman

Email: peborgman@gmail.com

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards30 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Nancy Zaccanti [zaccanti@charter.net]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:31

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Nancy Zaccanti

Email: zaccanti@charter.net

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards31 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Catherine Berry [berrycm@uwec.edu]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:31 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:31

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Catherine Berry

Email: berrycm@uwec.edu

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards32 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Victoria Brown [svbrown@discover-net.net]
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 3:31 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/20/2013 - 15:30

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Victoria Brown

Email: svbrown@discover-net.net

Comments: Thank you for moving forward with carbon pollution limits for power plants, so that we can address climate change as quickly as possible to protect our health, our economy and our

future.

We need to make a transition from dirty coal-burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power. We are feeling the impacts of climate change already, with more extreme weather, more droughts, more floods, and more extreme storms.

These pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Thank you for your leadership.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards33 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Alexandria Berry [chestnutcurls@icloud.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 10:16 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 18, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Ms. Alexandria Berry

4 Mattie Pl Auburn, NY 13021-491434 From: Kitty Meyers [kitty@manningbiz.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 7:23 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Strengthen and Enforce Carbon Power Plant Emissions



### Dear EPA Staff:

I wish to urge the EPA to set aggressive and enforceable carbon reduction standard s for new and existing power plants. Power plants are the largest concentrated source of emissions in the United States, together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions.

I am very concerned about the significant impact carbon pollution has on our quality of life — how it contributes to rising rates of asthma and asthma-related illnesses among children and the elderly especially. I am also greatly troubled by how this pollution is impacting changes in climate and weather, contributing to more erratic weather patterns and affecting entire ecosystems.

The regulations being proposed by the EPA are an essential part of our overall response to climate change as a country. We need the EPA to enforce these standards across state lines so that together we can curb this pervasive problem of carbon pollution that comes from our region's power plants. Until more renewable sources of energy are generated for public use, more aggressive regulation is needed so that our impact on the environment is reduced. We need enforceable carbon reduction standards so that we can make real progress towards stemming the tide of climate change for the sake of our health and generations to come.

We can also be a beacon of hope for the world and show that the U.S is serious about reducing our carbon pollution by committing real resources to this issue, and no longer just talking about it.

We have a moral obligation to act as a nation on this issue and strengthening the regulation of power generation is a good start.

Please stand firm and fulfill your charge to our country.

Sincerely,

Katherine J. Meyers

601 Sweet Apple Circle Alpharetta, GA 30004

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Ki t ty Meyers kitty@manningbiz.com
770-493-3543 home35 From: Mani Subramanian [manis@mani-ruth.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2013 6:06 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: New carbon reduction standards for power plants

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I am writing to comment on the EPA's proposed new regulations to reduce carbon emissions from power plants. I highly encourage the EPA to set aggressive and enforceable carbon reduction standards for new and existing power plants. Power plants are the largest concentrated source of emissions in the United States, together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas pollution from existing power plants threatens the health and welfare of all Americans' and is leading to long lasting changes in our climate that will have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment. As a person of faith I believe that it is our moral responsibility as interconnected humans on this planet to seek justice for our brothers and sisters across the globe and our

brothers and sisters that live down the street and that starts with aggressive and enforceable carbon reduction standards for new and existing power plants. Taking the aggressive steps necessary to cut carbon pollution from new and existing power plants will protect children’s health and will move us toward a cleaner, more stable environment for future generations. Thank you for your time and consideration of my comments.

Mani Subramanian

1652 Harts Mill Road 

### Atlanta, GA 30319

Mani Subramanian manis@mani-ruth.com (H)770-452-1921 (C)678-488-0524
Fax:770-452-192136 From: Matt Groner [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 12:08 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Matt Groner Bridgeton, Missouri

There are now 46 signatures on this petition. Read reasons why people are signing, and respond to Solve The Climate Crisis by clicking here: http://www.change.org/petitions/epa-limit-co2-emission s-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.37 From: Mr. Dana Weintraub [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Tuesday, December 17, 2013 12:01 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Mr. Dana Weintraub Beaverton, Oregon

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Internet.38 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Edward Oliver Gonzalez [gonzedo@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 11:21 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 12/16/2013 - 23:21

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Edward Oliver Gonzalez

Email: gonzedo@yahoo.com

Comments: You can already locate/quantify the greatest existing coal-fired polluters in the country. Why don't you take immediate action to require these Power plant owners/operators to submit a plan to reduce emissions ASAP? What are you waiting for? Ms. McCarthy's optimism/reliance on Carbon Sequestration Compression and Disposal is ludicrous. It will never be technically possible and/or socio- politically acceptable, NIMBY ! Just "Pie in the Sky”, and you know it!Speaking of "Clean-Coal" is also ludicrous. - There is no such; Only partially "desulfurized coal', the production of which itself will produce lakes of long term-pollutants with nowhere to go, and only slightly better than Nuclear waste.Rapid transition to Nat Gas appears for now the best thing to do to accomplish costeffective, rapid GHG reduction; Even then, we must encourage rapid development of Green Energy. Fortunately, our Industry/governments are swiftly going there.

I know coal- burning is not the only issue on your plate , but it may well be the most quickly remediable compared to Nuclear Energy for instance. www.energymaters.com

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards39 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Edward Oliver Gonzalez [gonzedo@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 11:11 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 12/16/2013 - 23:10

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Edward Oliver Gonzalez

Email: gonzedo@yahoo.com

Comments: You can already locate/quantify the greatest existing coal-fired polluters in the country. Why don't you take immediate action to th ese Power plant owners/operators to submit a plan to reduce emissions ASAP? What are you waiting for? Ms. McCarthy's optimism/reliance on Carbon Sequestration Compression and Disposal is ludicrous. It will never be technically possible and/or socio-politically or acceptable NIMBY ! Just "Pie in the Sky, and you know it!Speaking of "Clean-Coal" is also ludicrous. - There is no such; Only partially "desulfurized coal', the production of which itself will produce lakes of long term-pollutants with no where to go, and only slightly better than Nuclear waste.

Rapid transition to Nat Gas appears for now the best thing to do to accomplish costeffective, rapid GHG reduction. Even then we must encourage rapid development of Green Energy. Fortunately, our Industry/governments are swiftly going there.

I know coal- burning is not the only issue on your plate , but it may well be the most quickly

remediable.

www.energymaters.com
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards40 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of jimmy percy [jpercy@columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, December 16, 2013 8:39 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 16, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Mr. jimmy percy 110 Lippazon Way Delaware, OH 43015-344641 From: Bob Fletcher [bobfletcher@mindspring.com]
Sent: Friday, December 13, 2013 5:33 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comments on power plant carbon emissions



### We are writing to comment on the EPA's proposed new regulations to reduce carbon emissions from

po wer plants. We strongly encourage the EPA to set effective and enforceable carbon reduction standards for new and existing power plants. Power plants are the largest concentrated source of emissions in the United States, together accounting for roughly one-third of all domestic greenhouse gas emissions. Greenhouse gas pollution from existing power plants threatens the health and welfare of all Americans and is leading to long lasting changes in our climate that will have a range of negative effects on human health and the environment. The latest IPCC report states that "warming of the climate system is unequivocal".

We believe that it is our moral responsibility as interconnected humans on this planet to seek justice
fo r our brothers and sisters across the globe and our brothers and sisters that live down the street, and that starts with effective and enforceable carbon reduction standards for new and existing power plants. Taking the aggressive steps necessary to cut carbon pollution from new and existing power plants will protect human health and will move us toward a cleaner, more stable environment for future generations. Thank you for your time and consideration of our comments.

Sincerely yours,

Robert & Connie Fletcher 244 Lamplighter Lane SE
Marietta GA 30067-4972

(770) 953-3550

bobfletcher@mindspring.com42 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Kathryn Lewis [kslew164 @yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 12, 2013 3:36 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 12, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Kathryn Lewis

12416 State Route 164 Lisbon, OH 44432-9756 (330) 424-388143 From: Tyler Wescott [tylerwescott2315@gmail.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2013 4:20 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: New Proposed reghulations on carbon emissions



### To Whom It May Concern,

I am writing to express my gratitude for the new proposed regulations on carbon emissions set forth by President Obama. I am glad that President Obama is finally making real moves on limiting carbon emissions in this country. In the wake of huge natural disasters like Typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy, it is most crucial that we limit the amount of carbon that we puyt ito thr atmosphere. It is well studied that climate change is contributing to more frequent and more intense tropical storms. Similarly, the severity of the droughts in the past few summers can be attributed to climate change.

I fear for the future of our planet. In my climate policy class, we recently looked at a map of all proposed coal fired power plants that are planned for the entire world. If all of these power plants are constructed, we will burn the planet. The climate will be so sever and hostile that we will be dealing with one disaster after another and never get to deal with the important things like education and poverty relief. We will no longer be able to produce crops the way we have in the past. Droughts and sever weather storms will wipe out food crops, killing millions. Natural disasters will hit harder killing even more. Coastal communities will be displaced from sea level rise. Is this the kind of world we want to live in. Do we want to have the blood of billions of people on our hands? I hope that answer is no. Please approve these new regulations and not allow any more coal fired power plants to be built. We need a clean energy future that will sustain us for years to come.

Cheers, Tyler Wescott Sustainability Intern, Chartwells Dining Services President, ECO Students at San Francisco State University tylerwescott2315@gmail.com (518) 651-587044 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Alicia Korol [alikor23@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2013 5:59 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 12/10/2013 - 17:59

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Alicia Korol Email: alikor23@gmail.com

Comments: To: Gina McCarthy, US EPA Administrator From: Alicia Korol, Environmental Science and Policy PhD Program, George Mason University Re: Strong CO2 Standards for Existing Power Plants Date: December 6, 2013

Summary The EPA has an opportunity to propel America into a cleaner and more prosperous future by regulating carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from existing coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. The multifarious policy options being considered reflects the flexibility built into the statute and uncertainty in implementation. One policy in particular, demand-side energy- efficiency credits, stands out as carrying excessive uncertainty in achieving emissions reductions and as lacking the regulatory pressure needed to transition to a clean energy economy. I recommend the EPA to adopt strict supply-side regulations that reject a flexible plan option permitting emissions reductions from end-use energy efficiency.

Scientific and Legal Rationale for EPA Action Climate change threatens human health and wellbeing by increasing the severity and unpredictability of storms, wildfires, droughts, and disease. A significant step in curbing U.S. carbon pollution is to reduce CO2 from coal- and natural gas-fired power plants. The electric power sector contributed the la rgest proportion, or 39%, of the total U.S. CO2 emissions in 2012. Coal and natural gas comprised 37% and 30% of sources for electricity generation, respectively, yet they produced nearly all of the sector’s CO2 emissions - 74% from coal and 24% from natural gas.

To address the adverse risks of climate change, President Obama announced a Climate Action Plan in June 2013 that will cut domestic carbon pollution and encourage expansion of clean energy capacity. EPA statutory authority under Section 111 of the Clean Air Act to regulate CO2 as a pollutant from stationary sources has been upheld judicially on more than one occasion and President Obama has now directed the EPA to work “expeditiously” in setting stricter existing power plant carbon standards under Section 111(d). The task before the EPA is to set tough and enforceable performance standards that still allow some room for industry discretion and flexibility in achieving compliance.

Rethinking Demand-side Energy Efficiency There are numerous ways carbon emission reductions

could be achieved. Supply-side regulations affect the source of the emissions, such as heat- rate improvements of the power plant or the decreased use of a power plant (and increased use a more efficient power plant). Numerous policy options for supply-side regulations are being considered, and many are measurable and enforceable. In contrast, significant uncertainty exists about the measurability or enforceability of demand-side regulation, which includes management of energy efficiency from end users, which decreases the need for energy generation at the

source.45 End-use energy efficiency crediting would provide states and utilities maximum flexibility, short of credit trading, in complying with new carbon standards. A number of studies have estimated the potential state or region-wide energy-efficiency gain to be between 0.5% and 3%, or 1.4% on average. Put in another currency, it was recently reported that Michigan residents could collectively save $13 billion dollars from aggressive energy retrofits over the next decade. End-use efficiency may also be the cheapest way to reduce overall energy expenditure.

Despite potential efficiency gains, energy-efficiency crediting may not be the most compatible with establishing demanding or enforceable carbon standards. The hidden costs of energy-efficiency upgrades (e.g., opportunity costs) and uncertainty in benefits (e.g, quality vs. efficiency) placed on consumers theoretically eliminate the justification for government regulation. Yet the implementation of an accountable system is still difficult in practice because of the need to measure,verify, and credit energy savings. Although states are currently administering energyefficiency programs, states would still need to implement an additional credit verification system. Thus, compliance through end-use energy-efficiency programs would unnecessarily supersede an already operating parallel program, decreasing total CO2 emissions because CO2 reductions would have occurred regardless, and it may prohibitively increase program costs. Moreover, where programs are less transparent, the risk of not meeting stringent CO2 emissions reductions is high.

Strong supply-side regulations that functionally put a price on carbon may provide the pressure needed to close inefficient plants as well as potentially free up the market for cleaner energy sources. There are 353 aging coal-fired plants in the U.S. (18% of coal capacity) that are “ripe-for-retirement” based on their cost-inefficiency. Estimates of the potential for energy-use efficiency taken at the source, where heat-efficiency improvements may be <8%, are of the same magnitude as end-use energy-efficiency gains. Utilities may be able to offset large portions of efficiency gains taken from the plant from changes in user demand, despite uncertainties in actual emission reductions taken.

Recommendation New greenhouse gas regulation on existing coal and natural gas-fired power plants will decrease U.S. carbon emissions and will help protect current and future generations of Americans from the impacts of climate change. The flexibility and low cost of end- use energy efficiency make demand-side regulations appealing but at the cost of weaker regulation and uncertainty in emissions reductions. I recommend that only supply-side regulations be considered in the policy development of carbon pollution standards for existing power plants.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards46 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Marketa Anderson [nolenz@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 6:44 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 9, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Marketa Anderson

1548 W Pekin Rd Lebanon, OH 45036-9786 (937) 416-197047 From: pjc1000@comcast.net
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 1:20 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Fragmentation and Global Warming



### Dear EPA:
In his book, Song of the Dodo, David Quammen likened our natural areas and National Parks to islands of habitat in a sea of farms and cities. It is easy to see how this fragmentation of habitats, together with global warming, might affect our most heat sensitive plants and animals, especially lizards, possibly snakes, as well as possibly amphibians. Plants, too, could be greatly affected. With global warming, as isotherms move north, creatures that cannot move with rising temperatures will be trapped in areas that are no longer livable for them temperature-wise. In effect, global warming, together with fragmentation, will act as a sieve or a strainer, straining out our most heat-sensitive creatures. I do not think human intervention will be possible or cost effective enough to help theseplants and animals. The result will be a large loss of species. One can also easily imagine how nonheat-sensitive weeds might outcompete other plants to the detriment of our natural flora and plant biodiversity.

Please, as you consider enacting carbon regulations, consider the impact that global warming will likely have on our native plants and animals. Thank you for your time, and your hard work and diligence!

Sincerely,

Patrick J. Coffey pjc1000@comcast.net48 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Carl Sigel [cwsigel@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 11:04 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 12/09/2013 - 11:03

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Carl Sigel Email: cwsigel@aol.com Comments: On December 3, 2013, leading climate scientist Jim Hansen stated that to avoid "dangerous climate change" global emissions of CO2 need to be reduced by 6% annually with current levels of CO2 in the atmosphere. Delays in reductions will lead to more aggressive reductions going forward. How do the proposed EPA emission reduction goals fit with Hansen's proposed reductions?

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards49 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Rebecca Slisher [bslisher@marlattautomaiton.com]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 10:43 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 9, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Ms. Rebecca Slisher

OH 43125-113350 From: Maria Walters [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 8:03 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Maria Walters Biloxi, Mississippi

There are now 44 signatures on this petition. Read reasons why people are signing, and respond to Solve The Climate Crisis by clicking here: http://www.change.org/petitions/epa-limit-co2-emission s-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.51 From: Christian Lopez [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 12:40 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Christian Lopez Garden Grove, California

There are now 43 signatures on this petition. Read reasons why people are signing, and respond to Solve The Climate Crisis by clicking here: http://www.change.org/petitions/epa-limit-co2-emission s-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.52 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Nikki Lotfabadi [nikkilotfabadi@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, December 08, 2013 10:12 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 8, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation. Hydraulic fracturing is a huge threat to our environment and I plead with you to stop the building of these wells. There is scientific evidence and proof with the naked eye that these wells cause nearby areas to have chemically infected water and for the wildlife to die off. Sustaining our land and protecting the people's well-being is more important than fixing the economy. Please take this into major consideration.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Ms. Nikki Lotfabadi

9120853 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of David [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Saturday, December 07, 2013 12:22 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers in renewable energy, ene rgy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal54 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: David

Last Name: Jaber Email: djaber@innative.net

Address: SE Central City: Berkeley

State: CA Zip: 94704

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1301

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf55 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df56 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Melissa Gilmore [gilmoredm@verizon.net]
Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 12:58 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 12/06/2013 - 12:58

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Melissa Gilmore Email: gilmoredm@verizon.net Comments: The EPA needs to protect our kids and communities from power plant pollution. Currently, millions of children have asthma attacks every year, and ozone smog pollution is a well-known trigger. Any increases in smog will mean more childhood asthma attacks and complications for those with lung disease. Additionally, children are more susceptible to the health effects of air pollution because their lungs are still developing, and they often spend more time outdoors than adults. As a mother of a son with asthma, I know first hand the importance of clean air.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards57 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Benjamin Swanson [basswanson@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:53 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Thu, 12/05/2013 - 21:53

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Benjamin Swanson

Email: basswanson@gmail.com

Comments:
Dear EPA,

I'm a Kentucky teen who noticed an anti-EPA, pro-coal advertisement placed in my local paper today urging Kentuckians to criticize the EPA. The crux of the ad, placed by the Chamber of Commerce, is that the EPA hasn't conducted listening sessions in coal country.

As I wrote the Chamber and my local newspaper, you all conducted meetings at your regional offices--a perfectly sensible place to do so.

I wanted to make sure you all knew that while you're the sca pegoats for a lot of folks, there are plenty of us who realize that your work is essential-- pollution costs lives and costs the economy, and without regulation, the effects would be massive and detrimental.

So even in the face of formidable, well monied opposition, I say: keep up the fight, keep regulating, and keep saving lives.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards58 From: Allan Tweddle [allantweddle@msn.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:02 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input
Cc: Don GARVIN; ohvec@ohvec.org; Gary Zuckett CAG Subject: EPA Hearings on Proposed Coal Fired power GHG Emissions

This email is in response to a full-page ad that appears here in Charleston West Virginia in

th e WV Gazette stating that "the deck is stacked".

Briefly, let me spell out my qualifications: first, I am an engineer with 50+ years of involvement in solving air pollution problems in my native Canada, over 30 years in California and for the last 14 here in West Virginia.

Governor Manchin ( now US Senator), appointed me to the WV Public Energy Authority, and reappointed me for two additional terms, knowing that I am a strong advocate for achieving zero carbon footprint and an experienced solar advocate.

During my career in California, I was involved in many solar projects including the 9 CSP power plants for Southern California Edison that are located in the Mojave Desert.

From this experience, I am a strong believer that renewable energy is in fact less costly when all of the legacy costs of environmental issues, health issues and long-term potential disasters like Buffalo Creek are part of coal-fired power.

That said, the real issue here is that coal-fired power plants, as they are currently operated, are poisoning the planet. That must stop. Whether carbon sequestration, or other technologies are the answer, we must mandate that they achieve zero carbon emissions as soon as possible. As soon as possible.

So while I can't attend one of your hearings, I am writing this to urge you to press on with hearings, listen for good ideas, but do not sacrifice the objective of slowing stopping and reversing climate change by significantly cutting GHG in missions.

We only have one planet. Wife is not a dress rehearsal. And all the industry is trying to do is protect its profits. The miners could be retrained, as were the minors in the asbestos industry in Quebec in the 1960s when I lived there.

Hold fast, and protect all of us, all citizens of all ages, and reject these efforts to just protect coal company profits at our health expense.

Respectfully submitted,

Allan Tweddle, BSE, (I. E., '61, Michigan), MBAd. ('82, PKE57, Pepperdine)

P. S. With several colleagues and angel investors, I have developed an innovative use of advanced materials and established a company that will manufacture a system that goes on every Boeing and Airbus aircraft to reduce their carbon footprint.

So it 81, I'm not just writing this memo f rom a position of our retirement coach, but from my office where I am directing the development of some fascinating technology that will in fact reduce the carbon footprint of all commercial aircraft that deploys our system. We already have four airlines working with us, and are working towards establishing the manufacturing operation in the next 18 months.59 So please, holdfast as only the EPA can and initiate rules and programs that will in fact save the planet from GHG emissions, as MY COLLEAGUES AND I ARE IN OUR insmall way.

Sent from my iPhone60 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of John Collins [jcollins@cs.umn.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 4:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Wed, 12/04/2013 - 16:31

Su bmitted values are:

Name: John Collins

Email: jcollins@cs.umn.edu Comments: I am a member of a rural cooperative in Wisconsin. I am also a grandfather, an owner of a solar PV installation, and a researcher in energy economics. I disagree strongly with the NRECA position on this issue. I would like to see an end to the burning and export of coal within my lifetime. I would also like to see rules that ensure that the petroleum coke that's building up from refining bitumen never gets burned.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards61 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Neil Kolwey [neil.kolwey@yahoo.com]
Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2013 1:55 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Wed, 12/04/2013 - 13:55

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Neil Kolwey

Email: neil.kolwey@yahoo.com

Comments: 1. I encourage EPA to set a reasonably aggressive emission reduction target from existing power plants. I believe the standard or target should based on what is achievable for all fossil fuel-fired generating plants, considering improvements in generation efficiency and co-firing of biomass for coal plants, and fuel- switching between coal and natural gas plants. I believe this approach will provide EPA a high chance of success in the face of legal challenges. I think a reduction target of 10-20% would be reasonable, and encourage EPA to

lean towards 20%. 2. I encourage EPA to provide guidance to states on how to use a hard cap or mass-basedemission approach to achieve the standard, and how states can take maximum advantage of enduse efficiency as a compliance method. Please refer to the recent paper by the Southwest Energy Efficiency Project, describing the advantages of the mass-based approach. The paper

can be found at http://www.swenergy.org/publications/category.aspx?Cat egoryID=1 3. EPA should allow states to take other approaches as well as the mass-based approach, but could indicate in its guidance that the mass-based approach is the preferred approach, since it provides the lowest cost of compliance for the power sector. Thank you

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards62 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Lisa [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 4:19 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy

gen erate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective

substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal63 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Lisa

Last Name: Wood Email: ilikekale@gmail.com

Address: 1688 29th Street City: Arcata

State: ca Zip: 95521

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1293

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf64 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df65 From: Amy Paulson [amy.paulson@gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 12:57 PM
To: Group A-AND-R-DOCKET; Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution Standards - Comments



## Dear EPA,

Please accept the following comments on the Carbon Pollution Standards

We need standards that set clear expectations for the next generation of power plants to

e n sure that they are the cleanest, most efficient, modern power plants, as well as existing

power plants.

EPA must set standards for carbon pollution from EXISTING power plants. The re are standards

for toxics, acid gases, heavy metals, and smog-forming and soot-forming emissions from power

plants and there should be standards for carbon pollution as well. Existing power plants create 38

percent of the carbon pollution in the United States, making them the largest single source of

carbon. They also create 32 percent of the total greenhouse gases produced in this nation.

EPA must protect our kids and communities from power plant pollution . Scientists warn that the

buildup of carbon pollution will create warmer temperatures, which may, in turn, increase the risk

of unhealthful smog levels. Currently, millions of children have asthma attacks every year, and

ozone smog pollution is a well-known trigger. Any increases in smog will mean more childhood

asthma attacks and complications for those with lung disease. Additionally, children are more

susceptible to the health effects of air pollution because their lungs are still developing, and they

often spend more time outdoors than adults.

Carbon pollution standards for existing power plants will further reduce other types of pollution

from plants. Researchers (West et al., Nature Climate Change, 2013; 3:885- 889) found that efforts

enacted now to reduce greenhouse gases (e.g. carbon dioxide) from all sources in the U.S. would66 

## prevent more than 16,000 premature deaths by 2030. The lives saved are a result of reductions in

smog- and soot-forming pollution that would occur as carbon is reduced, because actions to clean

up carbon would have the additional benefit of cleaning up other pollutants, too.

There are currently no national limits on the amount of carbon pollution allowed from power

p lants. The Clean Air Act is one of the nation’s most important public health laws, with a long

history of success. With overwhelming bipartisan support, Congress granted EPA the authority to

reduce air pollution to protect public health decades ago. The Supreme Court has affirmed

multiple times that this authority extends to carbon pollution. However, there are no national

limits on the amount of carbon pollution allowed from power plants. EPA needs to propose strong

limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants to fulfill the mission of the Clean Air Act –

protecting the public from air pollution that endangers health.

Americans support strong limits on pollution from power plants. A ccording to a bipartisan

survey conducted for the American Lung Association, voters strongly support EPA’s efforts to

update clean air protections. An astounding 72 percent of voters surveyed specifically want EPA to

set limits on power plant carbon pollution.

People don’t buy into industry’s “false choice” that we must choose between public health and

a strong economy. According to the same poll conducted for the American Lung Association,

nearly three quarters (73 per cent) of voters say that we do not have to choose between air quality

and a strong economy – we can achieve both. And a 2-to-1 majority (60 to 31 percent) believes

that strengthening safeguards against pollution will create, not destroy, jobs by encouraging

innovation.67 

## Carbon pollution is a problem for my family. My son and my husband both have significant

asthma. My father has COPD and my father in law is recovering from lung cancer. On poor air

quality days they all suffer quite significantly. As a nationally certified asthma educator and

faculty member in pediatrics at a US medical school, I can say they do not suffer alone. Asthma

continues to be the number one reason why children in our area miss school, need medications at

school and are sent to the emergency department from school. It is a major contributor to lost

days at work for working adults in our region. Although we have to have power to keep our cities

operating and our economy moving we also need good health. We cannot compromise the

quality of life for our people for our ability to run electrical devices. We must seek cleaner options

for carbon pollution from power plants and implement measures to ensure the safety of

everyone.

Sincerely,

Amy

Amy Paulson, MPH, AE-C

425 Weeping Cedar Trail

Chesapeake, VA 2332368 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Barbara Baird [baaird9992 @frontier.com]
Sent: Monday, December 02, 2013 8:28 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

De c 2, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Barbara Baird 1645 County Road 15 Rayland, OH 43943-799469 From: Kathryn Franke [frankes9@att.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 11:50 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input



### Please use the authority given you by the President to regulate carbon emissions from coal fired power plants to the greatest extent possible. Carbon is costing us more and more every year in health problems as lung disease from particulate matter is increasing along with an epidemic of childhood asthma. Carbon is also costing the world more every year as climate change's devastation destroys more and more lives through storms and drought.It is time to move forward on energy, the future depends on it; it has become a moral imperative! Thank you, Kathy Franke Warrenville, IL 6055570 From: Jesse James [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 10:55 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Jesse James austin, Texas

There are now 42 signatures on this petition. Read reasons why people are signing, and respond to Solve The Climate Crisis by clicking here: http://www.change.org/petitions/epa-limit-co2-emission s-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.71 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Lawrence [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 6:53 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal72 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Lawrence

Last Name: Garwin Email: lawrencegarwin@yahoo.com

Address: 1210C Emerson St. City: Palo Alto

State: California Zip: 94301

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1292

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf73 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df74 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Gatlin [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 12:39 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggr essively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal75 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Gatlin

Last Name: Rowe Email: gatlinrowe@gmail.com

Address: 2701 Shenandoah Ave City: Durham

State: North Carolina Zip: 27704

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1291

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf76 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df77 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Jeanne [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 11:01 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the Cali fornia Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal78 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Jeanne

Last Name: Imai Email: jsdimai@yahoo.com Address: 5 Winship Ave. City: San Anselmo

State: CA Zip: 94960

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1290

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf79 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df80 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Alexandra [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 6:13 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the Cali fornia Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal81 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Alexandra

Last Name: Chua Email: azchua@ucdavis.edu Address: 78 Fairmount Ave, #201 City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94611

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1289

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf82 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df83 From: Annie [anne@annenewcomb.net]
Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2013 12:44 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Contact Us Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Dear EPA,

My husband and I have been involved in the Beyond Coal, Coal Free PSE (Puget Sound Energy) project for the past year. We are very grateful for your focus on requiring existing coal plants to pay for their carbon pollution. When coal plants have to start paying more of their true costs, they will become cost prohibitive. This will make it easier for the UTC's to require more investments in clean energy like wind and solar as they drop in price.

In our case here in Washington State we have good laws on the books. Unfortunately PSE has a loophole they have been riding on that needs to be removed. The specific code provision is RCW 80.80.010 (20) under the definition of "upgrades". Under this definition, some upgrades do not trigger the Emission Performance Standards, including "installation of emissions control equipment". This has aloud them to continue to get 16% of PSE's power from Colstrip the 8th largest greenhouse gas emitter in the U.S. at a very low cost to them and a very high cost to the planet. Other states may have similar loopholes that need to be removed.

The atmosphere belongs to all of us and needs to be cared for wisely. All coal plants should be fined for omitting carbon dioxide. Possibly the money collected from fines can go towards mitigating climate change. Rather than Country's paying to help super storm survivors, maybe carbon polluters and profiteers like coal companies can foot the bills.

Our deepest gratitude for your extremely important work to help mitigate climate change and lead us and all life on Earth towards a cleaner, brighter, healthier, safer more sensible

future.

Thank You,

Anne Newcomb and John Sherwin

16650 246th PL SE Issaquah, WA 9802784 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of ruby cox [jlcox2593@aol.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 10:07 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sat, 11/30/2013 - 22:06

Su bmitted values are:

Name: ruby cox Email: jlcox2593@aol.com Comments: we need to keep the air clean and use our new resources wind, solar, wave and natural gas also become less dependent on imported oil we need to keep using the new methods for oil drilling that has increased our porduction Web Area: Carbon Pollution

Standards85



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From: Shirley Ingalls [ingallssk@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 7:43 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Coal Power Plant Pollution



### Dear EPA,

I urge you to implement strong regulations limiting CO2 emissions from existing coal-fired power plants to levels that put us on a path to limit global warming to no more than two degrees centigrade. These power plants are one of the major sources of CO2 emissions responsible for climate change. Climate change is jeopardizing the health, security and economic prosperity of Americans and people around the world. The coal industry should not be allowed to pollute for free at the expense of everyone else. It is time to transition to cleaner sources of energy, which will not only protect our health, but also create economic growth and generate more jobs than there currently are in the entire coal industry. Please move ahead expeditiously, this is the single most important action EPA can take to curb climate change.

Sincerely, Shirley Ingalls86 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Gino [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 5:56 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal87 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Gino Last Name: Pastori-Ng Email: instrumental1@hotmail.com Address: 4427 Fleming Ave City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94619

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1286

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf88 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df89 From: Ryan Provonsha [rprovonsha@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 4:20 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon emission limits on new power plants



### Dear EPA,

Tha nk you for proposing new emissions limits on existing power plants,

I want to make sure you know that I am another one of thousands or millions supporting strong limits, in the interest of keeping the US on track to do its fair share of reducing global emissions. I support a mandatory

transition to cleaner air and a sustainable future.

Climate change is first and foremost in my mind, in my reasons for supporting new emissions limits. However, there are a multitude of other good reasons to support them, including opportunities to reduce Asthma, Lung Cancer and Autism rates and their associated cost to society.

In addition, I strongly recommend that you also act quickly to regulate methane emissions, since methane is a much more potent greenhouse gas and the recent boom in natural gas fracking across the country has result ed in unprecedented methane emissions into the atmosphere via leakage.

Thank you!

Sincerely, Ryan Provonsha90 From: Stephen Bradley [chiefoperator1@verizon.net]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 2:26 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comment on Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Power Plants



### Comment on Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Power Plants Stephen G. Bradley, 11/29/2013

[The following is substantially equivalent to remarks I delivered in person, in the Boston public listening session on this topic, on November 4 th 

### .]

B y way of introduction, let me say that I do believe, not only that global warming is occurring, and is anthropogenic, but also that its scope, and the catastrophic impacts it will in all probability have, make it, in all seriousness, the most critical issue of our time. I believe we as a society are not doing nearly enough to combat it, and I applaud and support the agency’s efforts in that direction.

Where I do differ in perspective from many other people, is that I am much more focused on global climate change’s impact on natural systems and other living creatures, than I am on its effects on human beings.

I believe we have a moral obligation not to disturb the environmental systems of our planet. Just as in human society, we must keep the peace, follow the law, respect our neighbors, and protect the weak and defenseless, we are also obligated, as members of the network of living creatures. We must preserve the environment that nurtures us, respect other forms of life, and protect other living beings and ecosystems from damage and destruction in every way possible, consistent with our own survival. I appreciate that, to many people, the existence of such an obligation is not an obvious fact, but I believe a tenable philosophical argument can be made, that it does exist.

From this perspective, the issues of whether correcting global climate change will be easy or hard for us, or have economic impact, or be unpleasant, are basically not relevant. The wholesale overturning of natural

habitats and the m assive destruction of other living beings that global climate change will produce, beyond what natural adaptation can possibly accommodate to, is an unconscionable wrong that we must attempt to correct. We must stop damaging the environment, even if it is painful for us to do so, and even if others refuse to follow suit. We must stop, simply because it is wrong to continue.

Naturally, I believe the replacement of fossil-fuel power plants with alternative energy sources – as is already gaining ground in Europe, where 7% of electric generation is currently produced with wind power – is highly preferable to continued operation, even regulated, of existing fossil fuel plants.

As far as the specific question of what regulations would be appropriate for existing power plants, I would offer the following suggestions:

1. The emissions limit for existing plants should be brought into line with the requirements for new plants. The agency has issued a proposed standard for new plants – about 1,000 to 1,100 lb CO2/MWh. The requirements for existing plants should presumably be no more stringent, but making them less stringent creates a financial incentive to keep those plants operating, in their less efficient state. Let the two standards be the same – but provide an accommodation for pre-existing facilities in the timing of the application of the standard. (See below.)91 

### 2. Phase in the new requirement gradually: A time-frame for complete compliance with the new limit should be set -- presumably, given the scale of power plant operations, probably no less than 10 years but probably not

much more.

An interim threshold can then be established, that starts relatively high, but which is incrementally decreased until, after the total time period, the final limit comes into force.

For instance: average CO2 emissions from fossil fuel plants now are about 2x the prospective limit. Suppose that after 3 years, the requirement was that all plants in fact meet a threshold of 2150 lb CO2/MWh, and each year thereafter, th e threshold were to fall 150 lb CO2/MWh. After 10 years, it would be down to the final value

of 1100 lb CO2/MWh.

3. Emissions in excess of the threshold in effect for any given year should result in monetary fines rather than absolute closure. No plant is absolutely mandated to close; the discretion is always there for the owners and customers to pay the extra money and continue their operation – but the incentive will be strong to either bring the plant into compliance or replace it.

One cent per pound of CO2, for a plant which was 1000 lb CO2/MWh over the limit, would add $10 per MWh to the cost of electricity, or 1 cent per kWh: about a 10% increase in electricity cost to the consumer.

It would, in fact be a form of carbon tax – an approach I favor.

I believe an across-the- board carbon tax would be a very reasonable approach to motivating the kind of changes in technology and energy utilization that will be necessary to curb carbon emissions: it creates appropriate market forces for change, while continuing to allow latitude of consumer choice. It could be accelerated until the required reductions in carbon emissions had been obtained, and the revenue generated could support the development of wind and solar power, or offset other modes of taxation – it could, in fact, be revenue-neutral. But until or unless such a thing becomes politically viable, regulations like this will have to stand in its place.

I hope that the EPA will continue to exercise all t he means at its disposal to try to reduce global climate change, and again, I appreciate your efforts.

Thank you,

Stephen G. Bradley 279 West Wyoming Ave., Melrose, MA 0217692 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Katelyn [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 3:59 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in l ocal clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency indu stries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peakin g capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal93 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through q uantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low-interest loans for energy conse rvation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Katelyn Last Name: Lyster Email: Katelynlyster@gmail.com

Address: 530 Oak St City: San Francisco

State: CA Zip: 94102

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1285

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf94 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df95 From: Margaret Bone [bone.wassermann@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 3:56 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Close Existing Coal Plants



### Dear EPA personnel,

I u rge you to draw up the most stringent regulations practical, certainly within limitations of technical considerations such as capacity of supply lines from other energy sources, so that coal plants can be closed quickly. From what I heard at the hearing in Seattle, I think all the cogent points I know about have been made. So as someone who has been worried about climate change since 1987 and now has grandchildren, I want to add my sense of urgency and elaborate a few ideas to help you imagine how people will adapt once you give a strong clear message, though per my understanding of the process, it is not your job to design the response to the regulations.

The costs of the rapid transition should be borne by either energy companies (broadly, not specifically those utilities or companies that own the coal plants) or by a carbon tax, or both. The transition plan should encompass conservation incentives, job training and other public development as needed to maintain local economies in a sustainable way.

Some people worry about a backlash if the action taken by a government agency is "too strong". Some of the moneyed interests will react by trying to get more Republicans and climate change deniers elected. Public opinion has shifted to the point that the majority of people even in Republican areas believe we need to act to mitigate climate change.

And as you well know, the EPA was established under the Nixon administration. There will be backlash and we need to act anyway. Please be as strong as you can in stopping carbon pollution.

My grandchildren (two, with the third on her way) are depending on us.

Sincerely,

Margaret W. Bone, MD96 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Kirk [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 30, 2013 1:50 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggr essively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal97 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Kirk Last Name: Lumpkin Email: kirk@twinberry.net

Address: 5505 Macdonald Ave. City: El Cerrito

State: CA Zip: 94530

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1284

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf98 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df99 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Preeti [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 11:53 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggr essively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal100 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Preeti

Last Name: Shekar Email: preetishekar@gmail.com Address: 1532 Tyler Street City: Berkeley

State: CA Zip: 94703

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1283

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf101 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df102 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Emma Hutchinson [emma.hutchinson@me.com]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 10:54 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 11/29/2013 - 22:53

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Emma Hutchinson Email: emma.hutchinson@me.com Comments: I fully support the EPA's proposed carbon pollution standard to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants (EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495). I worked at EPA Region 8 this past summer as an intern and was very inspired and excited about the ingenuity of the EPA employees I worked with as well as the continued and increased drive across the entire agency to tackle the global threat of climate change. I believe that this proposed carbon standard

is a big and crucial step towards curbing further irreversible human damage to our planet and towards protecting the world we live in for future generations. Thank you.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards103 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Troy [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 9:05 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal104 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy compan ies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Troy

Last Name: Blair Email: troyagron@gmail.com Address: 5006 Avenue Avignon City: Lutz

State: FL Zip: 33558

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1282

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf105 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df106 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Khanh [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 5:49 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transitio n away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel-fired and nuclear power plants must be pr ovided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal107 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy compan ies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Khanh

Last Name: Pham Email: vietnamita1@gmail.com

Address: N. Watts Street City: Portland State: Oregon Zip: 97217

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1281

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf108 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df109 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of David [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 4:26 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transitio n away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in rene wable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal110 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with ea ch year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: David

Last Name: Brown Email: dlucasb@gmail.com

Address: 826 Florida st. City: San Francisco

State: CA Zip: 94110

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1280

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf111 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df112 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Lindsay [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Friday, November 29, 2013 2:40 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy e fficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 perc ent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal113 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low-interest loans fo r energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Lindsay Last Name: Imai Hong Email: lindsayimaihong@gmail.com Address: 3601 Randolph Avenue City: Oakland

State: Ca Zip: 94602

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1279

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf114 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df115 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Kermit [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 12:11 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy e fficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 perc ent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal116 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low-interest loans fo r energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Kermit

Last Name: Brooms Email: dougbrooms@yahoo.com

Address: P.O. Box 99024 City: Emeryville

State: CA Zip: 94662

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1278

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf117 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df118 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Peregrine [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 3:10 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy e fficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 perc ent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal119 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low-interest loans fo r energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Peregrine

Last Name: Whitehurst Email: peregrinezrw@gmail.com Address: 849 54th Street Apt. A City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94608

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1275

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf120 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df121 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Ken Jones [khunken33@hotmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 2:54 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Thu, 11/28/2013 - 02:53

Su bmitted values are:

Name: Ken Jones
Email: khunken33@hotmail.com

Comments: I have read your 2013 Proposed Carbon Pollution Standard for New Power Plants and am extremely disappointed. I was expecting a revision that would focu s on what you have learned

from all the studies on the climate chaos to come and come to the realization that far more strict standards need to be in place. It is clear that you are focused on "costs" to corporations developing and implementing new ways to control CO2 emissions and also morefocused on just the process and "cost" of the emissions that come form burning the fossilfuel used rather than the whole process and its overwhelming cost in the methane and CO2 of getting that fuel to the power plant. Where have you seriously put dollar and cents to the loss of public health, mitigation costs related to our food supply from drought, to storm damage such as occurred with the increased intensity of storms like Superstorm Sandy (after the costs of Superstorm Andrew). It is clear you are prejudiced towards natural gas becuase of its "cheaper cost" but in actuality the amount of methane leaked throughout the whole processes related to hydraulic fracturing and the CO2 from various aspects (including getting the large amounts of water to the well heads by trucks, the methane released in pipes transporting as well as the flaring of extra methane that leaks, etc) makes natural gas worse than coal in its damage to the

environment. There are plans, some created by Mark Jacobson, et al. (see http://www.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/ I /susenergy2030.html for various links to plans) that show that it is viable and truly cost effective to have new power plants be generated from wind, water, and solar. Not to do so, not to set standards that encourage this and completely discourage natural gas and coal-fired - regardless of carbon capture techniques - given the total cost in methane and and CO2 emissions is simply a statement that you have been captured by the fossil- fuel industry to the detriment of civilization, ours and particularly those in the developing countries that need us to make the very hard choices. Children alive now, even in this country (they certainly already are in other countries not as fortunate) will experience the dramatic failure of your lack of courage in facing down the scourge that is the fossil fuel industry. You are trying to fin d a compromise that might work when nothing short of a revolution in renewable energy development will have any chance of slowing down what is headed our way much sooner than most think. The IPCC report is such a compromise (that is why it is called Intergovernmental) that most scientists believe it does not address the scope of the problem as it is already happening (i.e Hainan is the worst hurricane to hit land in recorded history -- more like it are coming -- and that was nothing to all the problems that are not so obvious such as acidification of the oceans). Yours is an effort that is way too little, way too late. You need to take a much stronger stand on "heat-trapping gasses". Methane and CO2 are both huge problems that we have decided by a supposed "all of the above" strategy to look right past for purposes of "energy security" at the cost of our lives and our species' existence on the planet. Sad. Your standards only tend to support the belief that we can get by without going turning all of our attention and resources towards renewable energy at whatever the "cost" so we do not pay the ultimate price we are paying already.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards122 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Aaron [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Thursday, November 28, 2013 1:48 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels an d nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricit y. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal123 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Aaron

Last Name: Ableman Email: ablemantra@gmail.com Address: 626 Grizzley Peak Blvd City: Berkeley

State: CA Zip: 94708

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1274

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf124 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df125 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of John [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 7:06 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the Cali fornia Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal126 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: John

Last Name: Schaefer Email: jcschaef@igc.org Address: 1734 Roberts Way City: Arcata

State: CA Zip: 95521

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1273

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf127 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df128 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of LISA MANKIN [mandolisa@aol.com]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 12:47 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

No v 27, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Mrs. LISA MANKIN
3061 Dalemont Ave SE
Canton, OH 44707-1919 (330) 488-0853129 From: Kathy Kerridge [kkerridge@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 11:32 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comment on existing power plant carbon pollution standards



### Dear EPA, Existing power plants are some of our greatest emitters of GHGs. In light of all of the recent severe weather events (biggest typhoon ever, tornadoes in November, flooding in Colorado and the list goes on and on) we need to act and we need to act quickly. The world is entering feed back loops now. The Greenland ice sheet is melting and the world oceans are becoming corrosive. There is no time to spare. The whole rule making process is way to slow. Without regulating these large polluters we will not make any progress and the cost to the people on earth will only get greater and greater.

I am on a local commission charged with implementing out town's climate action plan. We have a large refinery in town. Looking at the numbers tells me that what a town or individual can do pales in comparison to these large power plants. I have great faith in American ingenuity. If these plants can be retrofitted they will be. If they can't they should be shut down. They are putting the people on earth now and for innumerable future generations in peril. This country can switch to renewables, increase its energy efficiency, develop mass transit and develop cleaner sources of back up power. We need to do this now. It will be better for our economy and our health too.

Kathy Kerridge

771 West I Street Benicia, Ca 94510130 From: Mark Gill [1markanthony@earthlink.net]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 9:31 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

De ar EPA:

Like millions of fellow Americans, I support the draft limits on the carbon pollution that would be allowed to be emitted from new power plants. It is essential to the future of our health, environmental and quality of life that we make the transition from dirty coal- burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power.

That’s why it’s so encouraging right now to see draft rules that would put a cap of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, a sharp improvement considering the average plant produces an average of 1,768 pounds at that level. This a positive step in the right direction and we must uphold the strength of these draft rules.

I cannot stress enough the critical need for this change. Alread y, we are feeling the impacts of climate change through more extreme weather. We’ve seen too many stories on the news about droughts, floods and the devastating impacts major storms have had on countless households, small businesses and families throughout our nation.

I applaud the steps taken so far, but these pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Please don’t water down these carbon pollution limits in the final rule and keep this process on the right path toward a sustainable future.

Sincerely,

Mark Gill 2846 S. Linebarger Tr Milwaukee, WI 53207131 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of ANTHONY [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:28 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal132 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: ANTHONY

Last Name: BARONDESS Email: asb26885@gmail.com

Address: 264 SOUTH HILLSDALE STREET City: EUREKA

State: Choose a state Zip: 95501

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1272

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf133 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df134 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Sarah [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Wednesday, November 27, 2013 1:17 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal135 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Sarah

Last Name: schuette Email: Sarahleebe@gmail. Com

Address: 1624 11th st City: Arcata

State: CA Zip: 95521

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1271

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf136 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df137 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Desiree [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 10:52 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers in renewable energy, ene rgy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal138 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Desiree Last Name: Davenport Email: leo81084@gmail.com

Address: 2751 Pleasant Ave City: Eureka

State: California Zip: 95503

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1270

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf139 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df140 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Paul [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 9:20 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers in renewable energy, ene rgy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal141 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Paul

Last Name: Yoon Email: pfyoon@sprintmail.com

Address: 1686 Old Arcata Rd City: Bayside

State: CA Zip: 95524

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1269

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf142 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df143 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Kent [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 5:04 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers in renewable energy, ene rgy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal144 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Kent

Last Name: Lewandowski Email: kentlewan@yahoo.com

Address: 1636 E 20th St. City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94606

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1268

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf145 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df146 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Clay [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 4:59 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers in renewable energ y, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal147 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Clay Last Name: McGlaughlin Email: claymcglaughlin@gmail.com Address: 3472 Mitchell Heights Drive City: Eureka

State: CA Zip: 95503

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1267

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf148 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df149 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Larry [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 2:01 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers i n renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal150 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Larry Last Name: Goldberg Email: larry@northcoast.com Address: 1225 Stagecoach Rd. City: Trinidad

State: CA Zip: 95570

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1266

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf151 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df152 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Olga [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers i n renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal153 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Olga

Last Name: Bolotina Email: obolotina@presidiomba.org

Address: 311 Oak street City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94607

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1265

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf154 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df155 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Adam [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:28 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers i n renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal156 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Adam

Last Name: Bad Wound Email: adam@badwound.org Address: 301 Langton Street City: San Francisco

State: CA Zip: 94103

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1264

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf157 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df158 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Susan [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:28 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal159 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Susan Last Name: Vaughan Email: selizabethvaughan@gmail.com Address: 2120 Clement Street Apartment 10 City: San Francisco

State: California Zip: 94121

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1263

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf160 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df161 From: Theresa Nuccio [theresanuccio@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:28 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: comment for EPA Listening Tour re: coal fired plants



### To whom it may concern:

Washington State uses very little energy from coal-fired power plants and many of us do not wish to begin now. Although we must reevaluate hydro-power in this state in order to maintain and protect our salmon industry, coal is not the way many of us from this area want to go. More of a focus on investing in renewables and gradual withdrawal from hydro-power would be preferable instead.

Coal does not have long in this world. Other policy action must become a priority before the U.S. loses all credibility in the area of energy production.

Thank you.

Theresa Nuccio
1531 NW 61st St., #102
Seattle, WA 98107

206.324.5616162 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Mary Jane [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 3:34 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal163 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Mary Jane

Last Name: Marcus Email: maryjane.marcus@gmail.com

Address: 2178 Williams St City: Palo Alto

State: CA Zip: 94306

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1262

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf164 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df165 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Rosa [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:54 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal166 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Rosa

Last Name: Gonzalez Email: rositagon@yahoo.com

Address: 271 S. 20th St. City: San Jose

State: California Zip: 95116

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1261

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf167 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df168 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Roxanne [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 1:42 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal169 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Roxanne

Last Name: Hanson Email: Roxannehanson@yahoo.com Address: 105 Chenery St City: San Francisco

State: CA Zip: 94131

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1260

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf170 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df171 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Janet [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:39 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal172 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Janet

Last Name: Schwind Email: janschwind45@cruzio.com

Address: 100 Westmoor Court City: Santa Cruz

State: CA Zip: 95060

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1259

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf173 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df174 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Daphne [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:13 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal175 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Daphne

Last Name: Hatch Email: Daphnehatch@yahoo.com

Address: 67 Pinheiro Cir City: Novato

State: CA Zip: 94945

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1258

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf176 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df177 From: John Hermanson [tug3@centurytel.net]
Sent: Tuesday, November 26, 2013 12:07 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

De ar EPA:

Like millions of fellow Americans, I support the draft limits on the carbon pollution that would be allowed to be emitted from new power plants. It is essential to the future of our health, environmental and quality of life that we make the transition from dirty coal- burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power.

That’s why it’s so encouraging right now to see draft rules that would put a cap of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt- hour, a sharp improvement considering the average plant produces an average of 1,768 pounds at that level. This a positive step in the right direction and we must uphold the strength of these draft rules.

I cannot stress enough the critical need for this change. Already, we are feeling the impacts of climate change through more extreme weather. We’ve seen too many stories on the news about droughts, floods and the devastating impacts major storms have had on countless households, small businesses and families throughout our nation.

I applaud the steps taken so far, but these pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Please don’t water down these carbon pollution limits in the final rule and keep this process on the right path toward a sustainable future.Dear Sir or Madam: November 25, 2013

Please find my comments in support of President Obama’s Climate Action Plan and the EPA’s implementation based on the Clean Air Act and that CO2 is a pollutant that threatens the health and well being of United States citizens and the rest of the world’s people and a healthy planet that we all are dependent on do to climate change.

With the new proposed adjustments to give older gas and coal plants some slack in their standards reflects a willingness to compromise. Anything more is completely throwing out any sense of a science-based decision making mechanism and would be giving in to special interests over citizens rights.

Natural Resource Defense Council has proposed a similar plan to what the EPA has proposed with the following results.

“The plan would cut CO2 pollution from America's power plants by 26 percent from 2005 levels by 2020 and 34 percent by 2025. The price tag: about $4 billion in 2020. But the benefits -- in saved lives, reduced illnesses, and climate change avoided -- would be $26 to 60 billion, 6 to 15 times greater than the costs.” The preceding quote comes from NRDC examined proposed plan as available on the net.

This is a great investment in our future as a country and it is the right thing to do.

Sincerely- John Hermanson

E 110 Shefchik Rd. Luxemburg, WI. 54217178 920-845-5479

Sincerely,

John Hermanson

E 110 Shefchik Rd Luxemburg, WI 54217179 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of jerry cox [jlcox2593@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 11:00 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/25/2013 - 23:00

Su bmitted values are:

Name: jerry cox Email: jlcox2593@aol.com Comments: we need to keep the air and water clean for future generations Web Area: Carbon

Pollution Standards180 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of terry cox [terrycox9232@yahoo.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:58 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/25/2013 - 22:58

Su bmitted values are:

Name: terry cox Email: terrycox9232@yahoo.com Comments: we need to use the clean energy wind , solar, wave and natural gas and with conservation we can be energy independent and keep the air clean for future generations and lead in development in these new sources of energy and other countries will follow our example.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards181 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Lillian [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 10:02 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers i n renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal182 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Lillian

Last Name: McMath Email: lilmcm@hotmail.com

Address: 115 Red Hills Dr. City: Dubois State: Wyoming Zip: 82513

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1257

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf183 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df184 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Melanie [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 7:33 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal185 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Melanie

Last Name: Bielefeld Email: melanie.bielefeld@gmail.com

Address: 814 Jackson City: Albany

State: CA Zip: 94706

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1256

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf186 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df187 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Ingrid [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 7:23 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal188 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Ingrid

Last Name: Jacobson Email: Ingrid jacobson Address: 255 MacArthur blvd apt B City: Oakland

State: Ca Zip: 94610

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1255

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf189 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df190 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Meera [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:44 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal191 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Meera

Last Name: Sethi Email: meeralee@gmail.com

Address: 1846 Delaware St #1 City: Berkeley

State: Ca Zip: 94703

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1254

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf192 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df193 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Sara [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:42 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal194 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Sara

Last Name: Randall Email: sara.randall1@maine.edu

Address: 6 Starboard Lane City: Freeport

State: ME Zip: 04032

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1253

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf195 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df196 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Michael [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:39 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal197 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Michael

Last Name: Andrews Email: norcalkook@gmail.com

Address: 299 Juanita Avenue City: Pacifica

State: California Zip: 94044

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1252

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf198 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df199 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Kevin [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:36 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity . In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal200 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Kevin Last Name: Connelly Email: kevin@earthisland.org Address: 465 Scott Street, #3 City: San Francisco

State: CA Zip: 94117

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1251

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf201 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df202 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Ann [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:32 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggr essively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal203 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Ann Last Name: Pacey Email: annjpacey@gmail.com Address: 3233 Dry Creek Rd City: Napa

State: CA Zip: 94558

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1250

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf204 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df205 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Ingrid [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 6:16 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a jus t transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel-fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit f or construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal206 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Ingrid

Last Name: severson Email: ingrid_severson@yahoo.com

Address: 5410 DOver Street City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94609

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1249

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf207 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df208 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Rose Penelope [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 5:51 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the Cali fornia Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal209 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Rose Penelope

Last Name: Yee Email: rose@greenretirement.com Address: 1 Lakeside Drive, #811 City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94612

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1248

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf210 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df211 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Wafaa [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 5:49 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the Cali fornia Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal212 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Wafaa

Last Name: Aborashed Email: Healthyslc@yahoo.com Address: 3081 Teagarden street City: San Leandro

State: CA Zip: 94577

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1247

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf213 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df214 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Bianca [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 5:41 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuel s and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electr icity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal215 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Bianca Last Name: Taylor Email: bianca.earthisland@gmail.com

Address: 1060 37th Street City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94608

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1246

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf216 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df217 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Allyse [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 5:40 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal218 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Allyse

Last Name: Heartwell Email: aheartwell@gmail.com Address: 617 Broderick St, Apt C City: San Francisco

State: California Zip: 94117

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1245

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf219 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df220 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of William Walraven [williamwalraven@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 4:43 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

No v 25, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Mr. William Walraven

1222 Sunset View Dr Akron, OH 44313-7839 (330) 836-7667221 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of William Walraven [williamwalraven@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 4:43 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

No v 25, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Mr. William Walraven

1222 Sunset View Dr Akron, OH 44313-7839 (330) 836-7667222 From: Janice Seybold [janiceseybold@aol.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 3:55 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

De ar EPA:

Like millions of fellow Americans, I support the draft limits on the carbon pollution that would be allowed to be emitted from new power plants. It is essential to the future of our health, environmental and quality of life that we make the transition from dirty coal- burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power.

That’s why it’s so encouraging right now to see draft rules that would put a cap of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt- hour, a sharp improvement considering the average plant produces an average of 1,768 pounds at that level. This a positive step in the right direction and we must uphold the strength of these draft rules.

I cannot stress enough the critical need for this change. Already, we are feeling the impacts of climate change through more extreme weather. We’ve seen too many stories on the n ews about droughts, floods and the devastating impacts major storms have had on countless households, small businesses and families throughout our nation.

I applaud the steps taken so far, but these pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Please don’t water down these carbon pollution limits in the final rule and keep this process on the right path toward a sustainable future.

Sincerely,

Janice Seybold

2421 Golden Rd. Plover, WI 54467223 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Judy Schomaker [jrscho@columbus.rr.com]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 3:43 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

No v 25, 2013

President Obama

Dear Obama,

Industrial carbon pollution spewing from power plants threatens our health.

It fuels global warming, which increases smog, permanently damaging our lungs and making it

difficult for children to breathe.

I urge you to direct the Environmental Protection Agency to clean up carbon pollution from new and existing power plants because it will protect Americans' health, spur investment in clean energy, and unleash American innovation.

Sincerely,

Ms. Judy Schomaker

5950 Linworth Rd Worthington, OH 43085-3361224 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Solar [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 1:36 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a jus t transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel-fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit f or construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal225 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Solar

Last Name: Action Alliance Email: admin@solarsonomacounty.org Address: 1300 Valley House Dr. City: Rohnert Park

State: CA Zip: 94928

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1243

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf226 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df227 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Jenise [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 1:35 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggr essively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal228 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Jenise

Last Name: Granvold Email: jgranvold@gmail.com

Address: 1004 Woodlake Dr. City: Santa Rosa

State: CA Zip: 95405

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1242

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf229 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df230 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Rachel [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 12:40 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the Cali fornia Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal231 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Rachel Last Name: Schapira Email: rachel@luminalt.com

Address: 1320 Potrero Ave City: San Francisco

State: CA Zip: 94110

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1241

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf232 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df233 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Margaret Bellafiore [margaret@mobius.org]
Sent: Monday, November 25, 2013 9:18 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/25/2013 - 09:18

Sub mitted values are:

Name: Margaret Bellafiore

Email: margaret@mobius.org

Comments:
There is little time to correct the man- made causes of global warming. We will go beyond what is what we are used to life on earth if we do not stop the oil and coal industry. A carbon tax will slow them down. I pay a tax when I put my garbage on the curb here in Weymouth, MA. These oil and coal corporations are getting away with dumping more and more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere. They must be taxed for this. And they must be required to phase out their coal and oil plants and develop wind and solar instead. STOP THEM! I have 4 grandchildren and they will have to adapt to a barren earth with temperatures humans have never encountered before. WHY? The answer is only so oil and coal compani es can continue to make the most money in the whole world. STOP OIL AND COAL CORPORATIONS with standards that require new alternatives (wind and solar) as well as a hefty Carbon TAX.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards234 From: Hannah Thorne [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 9:44 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Hannah Thorne Manchester, Massachusetts

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Internet.235 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Bob [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 9:18 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy e fficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 perc ent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal236 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low-interest loans fo r energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Bob Last Name: strayer Email: skyhunter@hotmail.com Address: 1075 Rispin /drive City: Berkeley=

State: CA Zip: 94705

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1239

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf237 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

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df238 From: Tasha Statz [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 9:13 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Tasha Statz Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 38 signatures on this petition. Read reasons why people are signing, and respond to Solve The Climate Crisis by clicking here: http://www.change.org/petitions/epa-limit-co2-emission s-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.239 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Alison [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 1:33 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re- hired for careers in renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal240 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Alison Last Name: healy Email: ahealy@solaractionalliance.org

Address: 420 donahue st City: sausalito

State: California Zip: 94965

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1237

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf241 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df242 From: run160@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, November 24, 2013 12:09 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Reduction in carbon pollution

There is an urgent need to regulate carbon pollution. We need the EPA to be the leader in

th is and live up to its intentions as an agency - protect the environment a nd this our Earth! We need to reduce carbon pollution at a drastic rate and quickly. Climate change is already upon us and we need true leadership right now!!! Regulate carbon pollution!

Melissa Brice of Chicago IL

Sent from my iPhone243 From: Caleb Laieski [mail@changemail.org]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 9:54 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"



### Dear EPA,

I j ust signed Solve The Climate Crisis's petition " EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants " on Change.org.

I strongly support strict limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. Reducing greenhouse gas emissions from both new and existing power plants is vital if we are going to avoid the worst effects of climate change. I urge EPA to implement the strongest possible carbon standards as soon as possible. Thank you.

Sincerely, Caleb Laieski Phoenix, Arizona

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Internet.244 From: Aubrey [bluetally15@gmail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 6:56 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Contact Us Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

To Whom It May Concern:

In the wake of the typhoon disaster in the Philippines, it is immediately apparent how pressing of an issue climate change is for the current and future human population and how much damage it can cause. Climate change has ceased to be simply an issue concerned with the

welfare of the environment. It has become an issue that affects the welfare of human life around the globe. Increased natural disasters, faster spreading disease, and food insecurity are all possible consequences of climate change tha t lie in our society's eminent future. Now is the time to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants to combat global climate change.

If we do not do everything we possibly can to reduce carbon emissions now, the Earth may become a very hostile planet to inhabit, and no country, including the the United States, would be protected from the devastating effects of climate change. We must protect the future of our own nation and that of other nations by committing to lowering our carbon emissions for the sake of the peaceful and prosperous future of societies around the world. I implore the EPA to thoroughly consider the power it holds at this historical moment by having the ability to impose caps in carbon emissions. I fully support the EPA developing a program to track and cap carbon pollution for existing and future power plants, so that the future of life on Earth is brighter.

Sincerely, Aubrey Tingler

8211 Tuckerman Lane
Potomac, MD 20854

Sent from my iPhone245 From: Connie Flonnes [cflonnes@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 5:53 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

De ar EPA:

Like millions of fellow Americans, I support the draft limits on the carbon pollution that would be allowed to be emitted from new power plants. It is essential to the future of our health, environmental and quality of life that we make the transition from dirty coal- burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power.

That’s why it’s so encouraging right now to see draft rules that would put a cap of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, a sharp improvement considering the average plant produces an average of 1,768 pounds at that level. This a positive step in the right direction and we must uphold the strength of these draft rules.

I cannot stress enough the critical need for this change. Already, we are f eeling the impacts of climate change through more extreme weather. We’ve seen too many stories on the news about droughts, floods and the devastating impacts major storms have had on countless households, small businesses and families throughout our nation.

I applaud the steps taken so far, but these pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Please don’t water down these carbon pollution limits in the final rule and keep this process on the right path toward a sustainable future.

Sincerely,

Connie Flonnes

W6314 Barrett Rd Trego, WI 54888246 From: Julie McNaughton [mcnaughtond@uwstout.edu]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 11:02 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

De ar EPA:

Like millions of fellow Americans, I support the draft limits on the carbon pollution that would be allowed to be emitted from new power plants. It is essential to the future of our health, environmental and quality of life that we make the transition from dirty coal- burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power.

That’s why it’s so encouraging right now to see draft rules that would put a cap of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, a sharp improvement considering the average plant produces an average of 1,768 pounds at that level. This a positive step in the right direction and we must uphold the strength of these draft rules.

I cannot stress enough the critical need for this change. Already, we are f eeling the impacts of climate change through more extreme weather. We’ve seen too many stories on the news about droughts, floods and the devastating impacts major storms have had on countless households, small businesses and families throughout our nation.

I applaud the steps taken so far, but these pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Please don’t water down these carbon pollution limits in the final rule and keep this process on the right path toward a sustainable future.

Sincerely,

Julie McNaughton

926A Tainter Menomonie, WI 54751247 From: Jean Mazzella [jmazz4@yahoo.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 8:40 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

De ar EPA:

Like millions of fellow Americans, I support the draft limits on the carbon pollution that would be allowed to be emitted from new power plants. It is essential to the future of our health, environmental and quality of life that we make the transition from dirty coal- burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power.

That’s why it’s so encouraging right now to see draft rules that would put a cap of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt- hour, a sharp improvement considering the average plant produces an average of 1,768 pounds at that level. This a positive step in the right direction and we must uphold the strength of these draft rules.

I c annot stress enough the critical need for this change. Already, we are feeling the impacts of climate change through more extreme weather. We’ve seen too many stories on the news about droughts, floods and the devastating impacts major storms have had on countless households, small businesses and families throughout our nation.

I applaud the steps taken so far, but these pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Please don’t water down these carbon pollution limits in the final rule and keep this process on the right path toward a sustainable future.

Sincerely,

Jean Mazzella

519 12th Ave. W. Ashland, WI 54806248 From: Brenda Swenson [hockey.com@mail.com]
Sent: Saturday, November 23, 2013 6:11 AM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

De ar EPA:

Like millions of fellow Americans, I support the draft limits on the carbon pollution that would be allowed to be emitted from new power plants. It is essential to the future of our health, environmental and quality of life that we make the transition from dirty coal- burning power plants to cleaner fuels and sources of energy such as solar and wind power.

That’s why it’s so encouraging right now to see draft rules that would put a cap of 1,100 pounds of carbon dioxide per megawatt-hour, a sharp improvement considering the average plant produces an average of 1,768 pounds at that level. This a positive step in the right direction and we must uphold the strength of these draft rules.

I cannot stress enough the critical need for this change. Already, we are f eeling the impacts of climate change through more extreme weather. We’ve seen too many stories on the news about droughts, floods and the devastating impacts major storms have had on countless households, small businesses and families throughout our nation.

I applaud the steps taken so far, but these pollution limits are long overdue and so we need to act NOW. Please don’t water down these carbon pollution limits in the final rule and keep this process on the right path toward a sustainable future.

Sincerely,

Brenda Swenson

2002 Gulseth sT Madison, WI 53704249 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Rachel [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 11:52 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers i n renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal250 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Rachel Last Name: Kaplan Email: rachelkap@fullcup.info Address: 71 Purrington Road City: Petaluma

State: CA Zip: 94952

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1236

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf251 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

df252 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of colleen [team@baylocalize.org]
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:39 PM
To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

We appreciate the EPA’s efforts to implement President Obama’s Climate Action Plan. We support the EPA regulating existing power plants in line with the best available scientific consensus[i], on the scale of the action needed now to confront the climate crisis.

The Global Context of the Climate Crisis: We write this letter in the context of current climate events. Filipinos are suffering from the impacts of super typhoon Haiyan, the worse storm in recorded human history, which according to the UN has left an uncertain death toll of tens of thousands of people and left more than four million people homeless[ii]. In response to the suffering of his people, the Philippines lead negotiator at the UNFCCC negotiations Naderev Saño, has undertaken a voluntary fast until world leaders "stop the madness" of climate change[iii]. With super storm Sandy just a year behind us and impacted communities in the U.S. still struggling to recover, climate change is real. The next disaster will be upon us sooner than

we think so WE MUST ACT NOW.

Recommendation for Carbon Caps and Carbon Fees: We are calling upon the EPA to take an ambitious approach to regulating carbon dioxide from existing power plants. The EPA should capitalize on this historic opportunity of regulating carbon emissions from existing power plants by imposing a series of annually-lowering carbon caps that would prevent new fossil fuel plants and phase out all existing fossil-fuel plants by 2020. We believe that a series of annually-lowering carbon caps, combined with carbon fees, represents the “best system of emission reduction (BSER)” available.

Carbon Fees to Invest in Local Clean Energy Jobs for a Just Transition: Investing in local clean energy jobs and a just transition away from fossil fuels and nuclear energy would be an economic boon for economic and community development, especially for unemployed and under-employed people in the U.S. Workers employed by existing fossil fuel- fired and nuclear power plants must be provided with a just transition where they are trained and re-hired for careers i n renewable energy, energy efficiency, and energy conservation.

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal253 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

Clean Energy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund to Invest in Most-Impacted Communities: Energy companies that do not comply with each year’s lowering carbon cap through quantifiable emissions reductions (e.g, plant closures) should pay a carbon fee into a new federal CleanEnergy Jobs Revolving Loan Fund. Revenues from this Fund would be invested into federallybacked grants and zero- to low- interest loans for energy conservation, energy efficiency, and local renewable energy public works projects. Companies that do not comply with each year’s annually lowering carbon cap should pay a hefty daily penalty in addition to the annual

carbon fee.

Loans from this Fund should be directed to climate mitigation, climate adaptation, and clean energy public works projects, with a priority for projects based in and benefiting disadvantaged low-income communities that are most-impacted by pollution and climate change.

EPA’s Unique Responsibility and Opportunity for Climate Leadership: As both the world’s wealthiest industrial country and the most carbon-polluting nation per capita on the planet, the United States has a unique responsibility to take decisive action on climate change. With the U.S. Congress paralyzed by internal political fragmentation, the responsibility for assuming leadership and taking unprecedented meaningful action on climate change lies with the Environmental Protection Agency. With this proposed new regulation of carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants, the EPA now has the unique opportunity to single-handedly undertake significant climate action, in line with the best available

science.

We believe in the EPA’s potential for unprecedented courage in the face of great political pressure to do nothing. At this juncture, the EPA has the opportunity to change the course of history for the U.S. and for the world.

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: colleen Last Name: messing Email: c.messing@yahoo.com

Address: 917 s saint bernard street unit 1 City: philadelphia State: pa Zip: 19143

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1235

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf254 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p

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