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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: 

 

As 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.com

 
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"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity, and I am not sure about the universe." -- Albert 

Einstein 
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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 the 

planet. 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. 56th Street 

Roeland Park, KS 66205 

913-677-8672 

Carol Meyer 

Executive Director, Sustainable Sanctuary Coalition 

www.ssckc.org

Like Us on Facebook!

(913)677-8672 
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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 

called 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.org
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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 & CO2. 

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. 
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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 

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

I appreciate your kind attention and diligence, 

 

Mary Anne Mayer Redmond, CFP®, RFC® Mary Anne Mayer Redmond, CFP®, RFC® ®, RFC® 

Abundance! 

Direct: 972.484.5126 & 800.848.7145 

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Addison, Texas 75001-5637 

 

 

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From: Frey, Travis [Travis.Frey@nacoal.com]

Sent: Tuesday, November 05, 2013 8:53 AM

To: Carbon Pollution Input

Subject: coal fired plant regulations

Dear EPA: 

This 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 100th year. The city was founded in part due to the coal reserves that were present at 

that 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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From: Juanita Dean [jkdean@pacbell.net]

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: 

• Business 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, 

 Juanita 
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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 

these 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 Kahn 
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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

Bonnie Nixon I Senior Advisor

One Broadway, 14th Floor I Cambridge, MA 02142 USA 

Cell 415.306.1880 

website | news | blog 

 

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From: Don Summerfield [dsummerfield@pharmaca.com]

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 

strong 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 

carbon 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 

change. 

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

American 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.com

 
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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 Swimm 
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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 28271 
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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 

Submitted 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 

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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 Standards 
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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, MA 
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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!

Dec 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 45044-7127 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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. 

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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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. 

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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!

Dec 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 13021-4914 
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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 

___________________ 

___________________ 

Kitty Meyers 

kitty@manningbiz.com

770-493-3543 home 
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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

Email Template

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:770-452-1921 
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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 just 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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 just 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 

There are now 45 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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 

Submitted 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

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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 

Submitted 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 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 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 Standards 
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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!

Dec 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 43015-3446 
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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 

power 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 

for 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.com 
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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!

Dec 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) 424-3881 
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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) 651-5870 
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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 

Submitted 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 largest 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. 
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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.

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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!

Dec 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) 416-1970 
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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 these 

plants 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.net 
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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 

Submitted 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? 

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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!

Dec 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 43125-1133 
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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 just 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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 just 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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!

Dec 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 

91208 
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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, 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 thermal 
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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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
55

[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

df 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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 scapegoats 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 Standards 
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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 

the 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 from 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. 
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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 iPhone 
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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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
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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 

Submitted 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-based 

emission 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?CategoryID=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 Standards 
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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 

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 thermal 
63

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
64

[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

df 
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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 

ensure 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. There 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. would 
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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 

plants. 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. According 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 percent) 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. 
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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 23323
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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!

Dec 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 43943-7994 
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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 60555 
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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 just 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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 thermal 
72

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
73

[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

df 
74

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. 

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 thermal 
75

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
76

[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

df 
77

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 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 thermal 
78

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
79

[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

df 
80

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 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 thermal 
81

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
82

[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

df 
83

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 98027 
84

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 

Submitted 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 

Standards 
85

~

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 Ingalls 
86

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 thermal 
87

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
88

[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

df 
89

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, 

Thank 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 resulted in 

unprecedented methane emissions into the atmosphere via leakage. 

Thank you! 

Sincerely, 

Ryan Provonsha 
90

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 4th.] 

By 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 massive 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, the 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 the 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 02176 
92

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 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 thermal 
93

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 Clean 

Energy 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: 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.pdf 
94

[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

df 
95

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 urge 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, MD 
96

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. 

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 thermal 
97

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
98

[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

df 
99

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. 

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 thermal 
100

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
101

[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

df 
102

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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
103

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 thermal 
104

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
105

[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

df 
106

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 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 thermal 
107

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
108

[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

df 
109

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 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 thermal 
110

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
111

[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

df 
112

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 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 thermal 
113

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 Clean 

Energy 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: 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.pdf 
114

[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

df 
115

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 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 thermal 
116

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 Clean 

Energy 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: 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.pdf 
117

[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

df 
118

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 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 thermal 
119

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 Clean 

Energy 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: 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.pdf 
120

[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

df 
121

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 

Submitted 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 focus 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 more 

focused 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 find 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 Standards 
122

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 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 thermal 
123

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
124

[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

df 
125

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 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 thermal 
126

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
127

[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

df 
128

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!

Nov 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) 488-0853 
129

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 94510 
130

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

Dear 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. 

Sincerely, 

Mark Gill 

2846 S. Linebarger Tr 

Milwaukee, WI 53207 
131

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 thermal 
132

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
133

[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

df 
134

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 thermal 
135

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
136

[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

df 
137

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, 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 thermal 
138

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
139

[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

df 
140

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, 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 thermal 
141

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
142

[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

df 
143

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, 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 thermal 
144

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
145

[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

df 
146

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 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 thermal 
147

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
148

[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

df 
149

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 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 thermal 
150

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
151

[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

df 
152

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 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 thermal 
153

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
154

[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

df 
155

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 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 thermal 
156

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
157

[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

df 
158

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 thermal 
159

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
160

[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

df 
161

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

206.324.5616
162

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 thermal 
163

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
164

[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

df 
165

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 thermal 
166

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
167

[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

df 
168

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 thermal 
169

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
170

[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

df 
171

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 thermal 
172

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
173

[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

df 
174

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 thermal 
175

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
176

[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

df 
177

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

Dear 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. 54217 
178

 920-845-5479 

Sincerely, 

John Hermanson 

E 110 Shefchik Rd 

Luxemburg, WI 54217 
179

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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
180

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 

Submitted 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 Standards 
181

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 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 thermal 
182

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
183

[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

df 
184

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 thermal 
185

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
186

[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

df 
187

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 thermal 
188

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
189

[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

df 
190

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 thermal 
191

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
192

[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

df 
193

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 thermal 
194

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
195

[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

df 
196

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 thermal 
197

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
198

[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

df 
199

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 thermal 
200

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
201

[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

df 
202

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. 

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 thermal 
203

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
204

[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

df 
205

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 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 thermal 
206

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
207

[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

df 
208

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 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 thermal 
209

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
210

[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

df 
211

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 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 thermal 
212

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
213

[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

df 
214

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 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 thermal 
215

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
216

[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

df 
217

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 thermal 
218

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
219

[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

df 
220

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!

Nov 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) 836-7667 
221

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!

Nov 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) 836-7667 
222

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

Dear 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. 

Sincerely, 

Janice Seybold 

2421 Golden Rd. 

Plover, WI 54467 
223

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!

Nov 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 43085-3361 
224

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 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 thermal 
225

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
226

[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

df 
227

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. 

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 thermal 
228

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
229

[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

df 
230

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 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 thermal 
231

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
232

[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

df 
233

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 

Submitted 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 companies 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 Standards 
234

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 just 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 

There are now 39 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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 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 thermal 
236

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 Clean 

Energy 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: 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.pdf 
237

[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

df 
238

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 just 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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 thermal 
240

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
241

[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

df 
242

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 

this and live up to its intentions as an agency - protect the environment and 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 iPhone 
243

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 just 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 

There are now 37 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-emissions-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0 

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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 that 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 iPhone 
245

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

Dear 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. 

Sincerely, 

Connie Flonnes 

W6314 Barrett Rd 

Trego, WI 54888 
246

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

Dear 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. 

Sincerely, 

Julie McNaughton 

926A Tainter 

Menomonie, WI 54751 
247

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

Dear 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. 

Sincerely, 

Jean Mazzella 

519 12th Ave. W. 

Ashland, WI 54806 
248

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

Dear 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. 

Sincerely, 

Brenda Swenson 

2002 Gulseth sT 

Madison, WI 53704 
249

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 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 thermal 
250

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
251

[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

df 
252

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 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 thermal 
253

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 Clean 

Energy 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.pdf 
254

[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

df