1 From: Cindy Montville [syndes2@aol.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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,

Cindy Montville
152 wilson ave Waukesha, WI 538162 From: Karen Pope [popekj@uwec.edu] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:23 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Karen Pope 4018 Tokay Blvd Madison, WI 537113 From: Barbara Resheske [artsiebarbie@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:11 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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,

Barbara Resheske po box 183 Lake Nebagamon, WI 548494 From: Scott Maslowski [S.maslowski@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 8:29 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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,

Scott Maslowski N61 W5325 Edgewater Drive Cedarburg, WI 530125 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Steffi [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 7:01 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit f or construction of a new6 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Steffi Last Name: Finnerty Email: stef51@tampabay.rr.com Address: 1376 N. Spend a Buck Dr City: Hernando

State: FL Zip: 34442

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1234

[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.html7 [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 [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
df8 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Pia [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 6:45 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new9 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Pia

Last Name: Jensen Email: greenspia@gmail.com
Address: 2944 Yorktown Ct City: Marina
State: California Zip: 93933

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1233

[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.html10 [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 [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
df11 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Rachael [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:36 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new12 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Rachael
Last Name: Roehl Email: Rachaeleroehl@hotmail.com Address: 364 Oxford way City: Santa Cruz
State: California Zip: 95060

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1232

[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.html13 [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 [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
df14 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Earl [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:32 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggr essively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new15 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Earl Last Name: Berg Email: earlberg@gmail.com Address: 1136 Willow Village Sq City: San Jose

State: CA Zip: 95125

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1231

[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.html16 [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 [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
df17 From: John Vitek [jvitek1@wi.rr.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:26 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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,

John Vitek
857 E Reservoir Ave Milwaukee, WI 5321218 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Lindsey [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:23 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new19 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Lindsey
Last Name: Hutchison Email: lindseyhutchison@live.com Address: 1 chapin way box 8113 City: Northampton
State: Massachusetts Zip: 01063

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1230

[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.html20 [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 [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
df21 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Maya [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:08 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new22 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Maya
Last Name: Salsedo Email: Msalsedo@mills.edu
Address: 1933 Filbert st City: Oakland

State: Ca Zip: 94607

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1229

[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.html23 [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 [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
df24 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Erika [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:05 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) f ound that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new25 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Erika Last Name: Minkowsky Email: Eminkowsky@gmail.com Address: 849 54th st. Apt A City: Oakland

State: Ca Zip: 94608

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1228

[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.html26 [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 [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
df27 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Erika [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:05 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new28 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Erika Last Name: Minkowsky Email: Eminkowsky@gmail.com Address: 849 54th st. Apt A City: Oakland

State: Ca Zip: 94608

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1227

[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.html29 [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 [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
df30 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Erika [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:05 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new31 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Erika Last Name: Minkowsky Email: Eminkowsky@gmail.com Address: 849 54th st. Apt A City: Oakland

State: Ca Zip: 94608

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1226

[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.html32 [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 [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
df33 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Tara [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 5:04 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new34 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Tara
Last Name: Holmes Email: Tmhol37@hotmail.com
Address: 1505 Masonic ave City: San Francisco

State: Ca Zip: 94117

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1225

[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.html35 [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 [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
df36 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Colin [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 4:56 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new37 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Colin
Last Name: Miller Email: colin@baylocalize.org Address: 849 54th St Apt A City: Oakland
State: California Zip: 94608

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1224

[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.html38 [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 [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
df39 From: Cassidy Messinger [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 4:29 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I just signed "EPA: Limit CO2 Emissions From Existing Power Plants"

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed



### 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, Cassidy Messinger Woodland Park, Colorado

There are now 36 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.40 From: Linda Melski [lmelski@charter.net] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 4:10 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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 t his 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,

Linda Melski

1136 W Ives St Marshfield, WI 5444941 From: Keith Johnson [keithd.johnson@comcast.net] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 3:44 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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,

Keith Johnson 5421 E Kings Rd Bloomington, IN 4740842 From: Susan Hill [susanhill54@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 3:43 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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,

Susan Hill

645 S. Grove Street Ripon, WI 5497143 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Kirsten [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 3:32 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new44 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Kirsten
Last Name: Schwind Email: kirsten@baylocalize.org Address: 6559 Heather Ridge Way City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94611

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1223

[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.html45 [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 [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
df46 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Peter [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 2:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

W e 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 new47 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 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Peter Last Name: Wong Email: glorycompy@yahoo.com
Address: 268 Joost Avenue City: San Francisco
State: California Zip: 94131

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1222

[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.html48 [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 [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
df49 From: Reva Holmes [revaholmes@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:56 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Reva Holmes 23936 Firefly Rd Florence, TX 7652750 From: Dan Cornwell [cdcornwell@tds.net] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:38 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Dan Cornwell
33 W Main St. Unit 407 Madison, WI 5370351 From: Linda Jorgenson [jorgensonla@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

Follow Up Flag: Follow up Flag Status: Completed

D ear 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 pl ant 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 clima te 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,

Linda Jorgenson
32560 Oak Rd Washburn, WI 5489152 From: John Mix [jmix4peace@hotmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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 cr itical 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,

John Mix 1002 N. Sunnyvale Ln. #B Madison, WI 5371353 From: Terry Taylor, RN [terrytlr01@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:01 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Re: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495

D ear EPA,

I support a strong EPA rule limiting carbon emissions from fossil fuel-burning new power plants, with the goal of reducing the threats of climate change and related extreme weather events that ultimately jeopardize public health. The EPA's new proposal will especially help protect the health of children, seniors, individuals with cardiopulmonary disease, and those living in poverty.

Terry Taylor, RN
3053 Azalea Dr. Fort Mill,SC 29707, SC 2970754 From: lynn cameron [claylyn@plbb.us] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:46 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

lynn cameron
336 e beloit st darien, WI 5311455 From: Sue Kartman [Drkartman@mac.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 12:16 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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,

Sue Kartman W6746 west club rd Fifield, WI 5452556 From: Mary Jones-Giampalo [rivereye@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 11:35 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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 abo ut 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,

Mary Jones-Giampalo

N7491 S. Stone Gate Dr. New Lisbon, WI 5395057 From: Mary Lee Maki [ibml@msn.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 11:07 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Mary Lee Maki 901 Coolidge Ave Little Chute, WI 5414058 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Leana [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:56 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal59 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Leana
Last Name: Rosetti Email: Leana_r@yahoo.com Address: 3835 Bayo st. City: Oakland

State: Ca Zip: 94619

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1221

[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.pdf60 [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
df61 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Pat [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:56 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal62 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Pat
Last Name: Colburn Email: pat@patcolburn.com
Address: 762 Stewart Ct City: Alameda

State: CA Zip: 94501

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1220

[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.pdf63 [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
df64 From: Dionne Pilachowski [dspcrunch@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:48 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Dionne Pilachowski N10180 Buckeye Dr Necedah, WI 5464665 From: Bethany Zimpel [BZBeeCreations@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:35 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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,

Bethany Zimpel 1417 Kentucky Street Racine, WI 5340566 From: Dennis Conti [djconti17@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 10:34 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Dennis Conti
135 W. Norwich St. Milwaukee, WI 5320767 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Loren [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:30 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal68 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Loren
Last Name: Martin Email: Lorenbma@hotmail.com
Address: 405 be Bordner dr City: Lees Summit

State: Mo Zip: 64086

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1219

[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.pdf69 [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
df70 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Carolyn [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 9:20 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Form submission from: EPA: Our People, Our Earth Need Carbon Caps NOW!

Dear EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy,

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

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

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

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

Aggressively investing in renewable energy and energy efficiency industries could generate up to $4.5 trillion in revenue and create 40 million new jobs by the year 2030[iv]. Research demonstrates that renewable energy investments create significantly more jobs than fossil fuel energy investments, per dollar invested. Over the course of a 10-year period the solar industry creates 5.65 jobs per million dollars in investment, the wind energy industry 5.7 jobs, and the coal industry only 3.96[v]. In the case of coal mining, wind and solar energy generate 40 percent more jobs per dollar invested[vi]. A study from the New York State Energy Office found that wind energy would create 27% more jobs than coal and 66% more than a natural gas plant, per kilowatt hour generated[vii].Not only does investing in local clean energy create more jobs, it is also more costeffective for consumers of electricity. In 2009, the California Energy Commission (CEC) found that large-scale distributed solar photovoltaics (PV) in urban areas to be a cost-effective substitute for new gas turbine peaking capacity, denying the permit for construction of a new gas-fired peaker power plant[viii]. In its final report, the CEC recognized distributed generation of urban PV to be “more cost-effective than utility-scale solar thermal71 technology” and also “identified urban PV as a potentially viable alternative to a conventional peaking gas turbine”[ix]..

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Carolyn

Last Name: Norr Email: carolynclara@gmail.com
Address: 2725 26th City: Oakland

State: CA Zip: 94601

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1218

[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.pdf72 [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
df73 From: Catherine Bock [tinki.bock@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 1:39 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: CO2 emission regulation

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.

Thank you
Catherine Bock Palo Alto, California74 From: info@baylocalize.org on behalf of Mishwa [team@baylocalize.org] Sent: Friday, November 22, 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,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

We thank you in advance for your leadership and initiative.

Sincerely,

First Name: Mishwa

Last Name: Lee Email: mishwalee@gmail.com
Address: 3 Ardath Ct. City: San Francisco
State: California Zip: 94124

The results of this submission may be viewed at: http://www.baylocalize.org/node/905/submission/1215

[i] See the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Fifth Assessment Report on Climate Change, released on 09/27/2013. Download the Summary Report for Policymakers athttp://www.climatechange2013.org/images/uploads/WGI_AR5_SPM_brochure.pdf [ii] United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs Report on Typhoon Haiyan, available at http://www.unocha.org/crisis/typhoonhaiyan [iii]http://www.nytimes.com/video/world/asia/100000002548526/emotional-speech-by-philippinedelegate.html [iv] Roger Bezdek, Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency: Economic Drivers for the 21st Century, American Solar Energy Society (ASES) and Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI), 2007, iv,http://ases.org/ASES-JobsReport-Final.pdf76 [v] Daniel Kammen, Kamal Kapadia, and Matthias Fripp, “Putting Renewables to Work: How Many Jobs Can the Clean Energy Industry Create?” UC Berkeley: Renewable and Appropriate Energy Laboratory (RAEL), April 2004 (updated January 2006), 12, http://rael.berkeley.edu/files/2004/Kammen-Renewable-Jobs-2004.pdf [vi] Virinder Singh, BBC Research and Consulting, and Jeffrey Fehrs, “The Work That Goes into Renewable Energy,” Renewable Energy Policy Project, November 2001, 8. [vii] A.K. Sanghi, Economic Impacts of Electricity Supply Options, New York State Energy Office, July 1992. [viii] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p
df [ix] http://santalucia.sierraclub.org/documents/aug%2009_Nat%20Gas%20&%20Elec%20Jr.CEC%20cancels.p
df77 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of serge schneider [schneiderserge@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 2:56 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 21, 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. serge schneider 4052 meadowleigh way
4323078 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Lisa Kavanaugh [lkavanaugh@live.com] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 11:26 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 21, 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. Lisa Kavanaugh 56 Shipherd Cir Oberlin, OH 44074-1325 (440) 752-967279 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Sam Packard [stpackard@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 9:25 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 09:24
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Sam Packard
Email: stpackard@gmail.com
Comments: Dear Reader, Signs of climate change are here. Extraordinary storms, droughts, melting glaciers, and the average rise in temperatures show us that climate change is the issue. Not only this, but the large scale destruction of landscape and natural resource involved in mining coal has to stop
sometime.

We know that coal burning plants contribute 40% to atmosphere carbon. It's more feasible to limit coal burning than it is to take vehicles off the road or limit their pollution. Though there will all always be demand for electricity, sustainable energy is the solution. Automobiles and their pollution will stay in place as society continues to demand transport. It's 'easier' to limit power plant carbon than to limit automobile carbon.

The 21st century calls for 21st century planning. Coal burning is an old and defunct technology. Though it impacts the industry, it is time to limit coal production and burning. It's unfortunate that EPA and US government gets put into the 'bad guy' position, but without this essential reach and initiative, climate change will continue to become more severe. Not only this, but leadership on this will set the example for other nations.

While EPA's regulations are good for the long-term, it is difficult for some to see how they help in the short-term. EPA think tanks should have a clear answer for this and what is said of the "EPA's crippling regulatory measures."

Thanks for your work on this.
Sam Packard
1911 S 26th St Lincoln, NE
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards80 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Glen Benjamin [soulroll@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, November 21, 2013 12:27 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Thu, 11/21/2013 - 00:26
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Glen Benjamin
Email: soulroll@comcast.net Comments: I live near the Schiller and worked as a welder there years ago and know how filthy it is and see first hand the pollution from the stacks. It needs to be rectified with green technology!
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards81 From: scottaj1@juno.com Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:36 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: EPA Listening Session Input

Dear EPA,

R egulating carbon emissions from both new and existing power plants is cost-effective and necessary to protect all life on earth including human beings.

While I was attending the People's Climate Forum in Copenhagen, Denmark in 2009, that ran in parallel to the U.N. negotiations, I listened to first nation people who live on island nations and those who live in mountainous regions. They were pleading with those of us who
live in the industrial countries to work to lower our Greenhouse Gas emissions so this would reduce future warming. The oceans have warmed sufficiently to cause a rise in sea level. The
islanders will be forced to vacate their homes in the future while the source of water for people living in the mountains will eventually disappear. They too will have to migrate to another location that provides a source of life-giving water.

How can we put off taking action or be slow to act when we know that limiting Greenhouse Gas emissions including Carbon Dioxide is part of the solution to bring the atmosphere and oceans back into equilibrium?

It is not necessary to study the climate more before acting. All reduction of fossil-fuel energy use will provide multiple benefits such as improved health and reduced health care
costs.

A recent study found that there are more perils from elevated levels of carbon dioxide for plants than the benefit of the supposed growth potential of more carbon in the air.

Please take swift and decisive action to promulgate new rules for allowable carbon emissionsat both existing and new power plants. Also, please work to remove barriers and create costeffective incentives for renewable energy production and distribution.

Thank you,

Scott Johnson 103 West 55th-1/2 St. Austin, Texas 78751-122882 From: Barbara Dornbush [BarbBD@Bellsouth.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 4:12 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: New Carbon Reduction Standards

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. Thank you,83 From: karen@karenweiss.net Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 11:23 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: coal



# Thank you for taking our comments into consideration and for giving us the

o pportunity to share out concerns about the coal industry. Through my work I come into contact with hundreds of children and

e xpectant mothers on a regular basis, and it breaks my heart to think of the world we are handing them. Our generation must be responsible for increasing renewable energy and improving energy efficiency. I am counting on the leadership of the EPA to finalize a strong carbon rule and transform our electric sector into clean energy in an expedited manner. If we continue to use dirty energy, catastrophic floods, fires, droughts,
d isease, and economic burdens will magnify, further threatening the health and stability of all of us. Besides increasing dangerous levels of c02 in the atmosphere and increasing global temperatures, the use of coal also creates health problems by polluting our environment with toxins including sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, mercury, lead, cadmium, carbon monoxide and arsenic. I believe that we must put a price on carbon and invest in new infrastructure for solar and wind energy and geothermal plants immediately. The decision makers at the EPA are in a unique and pr ivileged position. The policies you implement can reverse the trajectory of increased carbon dioxide poisoning of our environment, thus creating hope for the future of our children and all living creatures on our planet.

Thank you
Karen Weiss Dallas Texas84 From: Kathy Johnson [kathbjohnson09@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:27 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Reduction Standards

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 larg est 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 po llution 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.

Thank you,

Katharine B. Johnson

-- Kathy Johnson kathbjohnson09@gmail.com

404-371-444085 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Clarisse Perrette [clarissep@mac.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 10:00 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Wed, 11/20/2013 - 09:59
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Clarisse Perrette
Email: clarissep@mac.com
Comments: PLEASE establish strong carbon pollution standards. Please make the US a leader in clean-er energy. Strong carbon pollution standards will save lives, money, health and our children's
future. Best, Clarisse Perrette
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards86 From: Jake Tyler [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 8:32 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, Jake Tyler Beverly, Massachusetts

There are now 35 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.87 From: Environmental Law and Policy Center [elpcinfo@elpc.org] on behalf of Nancy Smith [nancyasmith@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:18 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's time for strong carbon standards

N ov 20, 2013

U.S. EPA

Dear EPA,

Thank you for conducting "listening sessions" across the country to allow citizens like myself to share our thoughts on the upcoming carbon pollution standards. I was pleased when President Obama announced his Climate Action Plan in June, and I hope U.S. EPA follows through with aggressive carbon pollution reduction standards that will make a difference in our fight against climate change.

This is especially important in the Midwest, where we have a large concentration of old, dirty coal power plants that produce a lot of air pollution that contributes to our climate change problems and that affects our health.

Climate change impacts are already starting to hurt people in the Midwest. More days of extreme heat are hard in old cities like Chicago, where lots of folks have asthma and other respiratory issues and where lots of folks don't have access to air conditioning. It's also very hard on Midwestern farmers, who deal with droughts one year and floods the next -- and that, in turn, can affect food prices for everyone.

This is hurting our health and hurting our pocketbooks. And it's only going to get worse unless we do something about it. That's why I hope the U.S. EPA designs STRONG standards to curb carbon pollution.

Sincerely,

Ms. Nancy Smith
2907 Shelter Island Dr San Diego, CA 92106-274388 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Wiliam O'Brien [wobobr123 @yahoo.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2013 3:18 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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.

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. Wiliam O'Brien 12520 SW Gem Ln Apt 202 Beaverton, OR 97005-1360 (503) 679-519489 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Wendy Abrams [wabrams1@me.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 11:23 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 11/19/2013 - 23:23
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Wendy Abrams
Email: wabrams1@me.com Comments: I strongly support the EPA enacting limits on carbon emissions from coal plants in order to address the serious threat of climate change.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards90 From: Selden Prentice [seldenpre@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:44 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Greenhouse gas limits on new power plants

Please impose greenhouse gas limits on new power plants. There is little time left to make a
d ifference on climate change. Let's do it now. Please.

Selden Prentice Seattle, WA91 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Susan Crawford [scahimsa@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:32 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 19, 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. Susan Crawford 10418 Cambridge Pl Powell, OH 43065-8762 (614) 659-047092 From: Barbara Hill [b.c.hill@comcast.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:58 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Please write strong rules



### Dear Reader:

I urge you to create the very strongest rules limiting carbon pollution that you possibly can. We are beginning to see the costs of inaction on global warning: the strongest typhoon on record in the Philippines last week, tornados in Illinois this week, and the extraordinary droughts of recent years. If Illinois’s climate becomes unsuitable for growing corn, as could very well happen, the costs will dwarf those seen so far. We have green energy solutions available, and anything we can do to make our energy sources reflect their true costs will help us make the shift away from fossil fuels.

Thank you for your attention.

Barbara Hill

1460 Joan Dr. Palatine, IL 60074

847.991.320493 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Andy Knott [andy.knott@sierraclub.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 4:08 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 11/19/2013 - 16:07
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Andy Knott
Email: andy.knott@sierraclub.org
Comments: My name is Andy Knott and I am the Sierra Club’s Beyond Coal Campaign Representative for Missouri. The Sierra Club has more than 30,000 members and supporters in Missouri.

I want to thank EPA for taking this unprecedented step of reaching out to communities that are on the front-lines of dealing with climate disruption impacts. We applaud President
Obama’s Climate Action Plan released in June that calls for a 17% overall reduction of carbon pollution by 2020.

The need for action by EPA has never been more urgent. From hurricane Sandy to increased frequency of drought and flooding disasters to more severe storm and tornado events, the evidence of climate disruption and its impacts on people, the economy and public budgets is undeniable. In 2011 and 2012, Missouri ranked 7th in the nation in federal disaster recovery spending at $2.5 billion. Missouri also has a long way to go to reduce its contribution to climate disruption, as 80% of its electricity comes from coal.

Carbon pollution is also linked to life-threatening air pollution, such as smog, that can trigger asthma attacks. According to the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services, more than 381,000 adults and 143,000 children live with asthma. In 2012, the St. Louis metro area experienced 40 instances when the 8- hour ozone standard was exceeded and the Kansas City metro area experienced 29 instances when the standard was exceeded.

We call on EPA to adopt strong safeguards that reduce power plant carbon pollution by 40% by 2020 from 2005 levels. This level of power plant reductions is needed to meet President Obama’s climate action plan goal of reducing nationwide emissions of carbon pollution by 17% by 2020.

We also call on EPA to ensure that programs that implement these reductions do not disproportionately impact the most vulnerable communities among us.

We call on the investment of public resources to ensure that the transition to a twenty- first century energy economy provides family-sustaining livelihoods to workers and regions traditionally tied to the coal sector.

EPA’s actions should also promote energy efficiency and zero-carbon energy and avoid incentivizing natural gas and other climate-disrupting energy sources.

Lastly, EPA must ensure the standard is regularly updated beyond 2020, to achieve emissions levels demanded by climate science.

Thank you again for this opportunity.

Respectfully submitted,94 Andy Knott Beyond Coal Campaign Representative - Missouri Sierra Club
7164 Manchester Ave St. Louis, MO 63143
e-mail: andy.knott@sierraclub.org
cell: 231.714.1668

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards95 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Akshai Singh [akshaisingh@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 3:57 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 19, 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. Akshai Singh 2585 Euclid Heights Blvd Cleveland Heights, OH 44106-2760 (216) 272-428696 From: Frey Leigh [fleigh@att.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 2:56 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Cc: Frey Leigh Subject: Regulating emissions from existing power plants

I strongly support the regulation of carbon dioxide and other pollutants from existing power

p lants. The time has come to do all we possibly can to slow global warming and climate change. The energy sector has flourished while everyday Americans have struggled. Its well past time for the energy industries to do their part in protecting the health of our planet and all its people. A global economy needs to take responsibility for its global effects.
Connect the dots. Thank you for your attention, Frey Leigh,

San Jose CA97 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Martha Bonvillain [martha@bonv.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:27 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 19, 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. Martha Bonvillain
7681 Athenia Dr Cincinnati, OH 45244-2957 (513) 231-355298 From: Kate Buckley [katebuckley620@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:19 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input



### I am writing to comment on the EPA's proposed new regulations to reduce carbon emissions from
p ower 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 r esponsibility 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.

Grace and Peace,

Kate Buckley99 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Kate King [katherinek42 @gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 8:57 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 19, 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. Kate King
3640 Stillwell Rd Dresden, OH 43821-9712 (740) 624-3375100 From: Kristen Kaneb [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 7:10 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, Kristen Kaneb Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 34 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.101 From: Justin Eichenberger [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 6:29 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, Justin Eichenberger Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 33 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.102 From: Maddy Surette [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 5:30 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, Maddy Surette Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 32 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.103 From: Olivia Lantz [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 1:56 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, Olivia Lantz Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 31 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.104 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Marketa Anderson [nolenz@aol.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:56 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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. Marketa Anderson
1548 W Pekin Rd Lebanon, OH 45036-9786 (937) 416-1970105 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Stacy Grossman [stacygandadamg@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2013 12:56 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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,

Mrs. Stacy Grossman 2745 Allegheny Ave Bexley, OH 43209-1013106 From: Dene Hager [jodene.hager@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:11 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Clean Air Act Regulations



### Hello EPA -

Th is is in regards to the Clean Air Act regulations. As a citizen concerned about carbon pollution and other pollution from power plants, I strongly urge you to tighten your regulations upon power plants in the US and instill high fines for violations. It is time to ask the producers of pollution to pay for the damage they are doing
to the environment.

If the polluters break your regulations, there should be stiff penalties that are newsworthy not negligible. Make the penalties really sting for the offenders. Please make this regulation strong and effective. Set the standard right this time.

Thank you for listening.

- Jodene Hager107 From: Joy Joyce [joyljoyce@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 9:48 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Taking protective action now



### We need to implement strategies that will safe-guard our planet's future by ending the polluting techniques and

r esources and replacing them with ones that will not build up greenhouse gases. Recently, I heard about the impact of rising water temperatures on trout. What will be next if we don't act?

Joy Joyce 1416 Wendover Lane Wheaton, IL 60187108 From: Maddie Pomeroy [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 8:47 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, Maddie Pomeroy Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 30 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.109 From: cynthia Kegel [kegcynt@att.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 5:59 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: carbon pollution



## The world cannot bear the high rate of pollution of the United
States. please stop big polluters and introduce low pollution cars. Cynthia Kegel110 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Beulah White [bswhite@att.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 3:25 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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. Beulah White
2605 El Camino Dr Middletown, OH 45044-7127111 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Michael White [mdwhite2 @att.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 3:25 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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,

Mr. Michael White
2605 El Camino Dr Middletown, OH 45044-7127112 From: Lora Hein [heinsight@earthlink.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:56 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Curtail carbon extraction and pollution immediately

Dear EPA,

We cannot delay any longer. We may have already passed the tipping point beyond which getting the planetary atmospheric condition back to one that will sustain life as we know it may take more Herculean efforts than we would have needed had we heeded the warning signs earlier. Please exert all efforts possible to minimizing, eliminating and curtailing carbon pollution from all sources as soon as possible.

As an individual, I am doing what I can to m aintain the Honda insight I purchased in 2003 and to drive it as little as possible. We have insulated our home, converted to on-demand solar pre-heated water and a 2 kW photovoltaic system on our <1200 square foot house next to a bus
line in a "walkable" community. I am growing what greens I can on our 6600 square foot lot to augment our diet and reduce transport emissions. I shop locally, avoid plastic packaging as much as I can and keep looking for more ways to reduce my use of petrochemicals. I wear used natural fiber clothing, only buying synthetics if they are previously used items. My list goes on and on, from carrying my re-usable bags with me EVERYWHERE to keeping my garden worm bin worms alive through the winter and composting all I can, reducing our household garbage to under 5 gallons a week (and most of that is cat litter, which I am working at finding an alternative to).

I am not extreme, at least not for fellow citizens if this area. However, when I travel, I see that much of America is living on a different planet than I am when it comes to reducing the waste from fossil extraction. The EPA is in a position to launch a major crisis campaign akin to someone yelling "ICEBERG AHEAD" on the Titanic. We need to go full reverse and do it soon. Or, a s my father was fond of saying "You need to get that done by yesterday". His other favorite saying, which I forgot had come from my childhood lips until my mother reminded me of the source, "Elbow Grease Does Not Pollute".

It's time for Americans to be willing to get their hands dirty again and make this country the great land it once was once, again. Are you ready to lead the way? Sign me up to help.

Sincerely,
Lora Hein
4725 108th Ave. NE Kirkland, WA 98033113 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Beulah White [bswhite@att.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:55 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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. Beulah White
2605 El Camino Dr Middletown, OH 45044-7127114 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Beulah White [bswhite@att.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:25 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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. Beulah White
2605 El Camino Dr Middletown, OH 45044-7127115 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Caveman Etris [caveman01 @cincic.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:25 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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,

Mr. Caveman Etris
3060 Picwood Dr Cincinnati, OH 45248-5028116 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Michael White [mdwhite2 @att.net] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:25 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 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,

Mr. Michael White
2605 El Camino Dr Middletown, OH 45044-7127117 From: Molly Crehan [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 1:16 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, Molly Crehan Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 29 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.118 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Virginia Snodgrass Rangel [redjetta82@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 12:57 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/18/2013 - 12:56
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Virginia Snodgrass Rangel
Email: redjetta82@gmail.com Comments: I look forward to stricter regulations for existing power plants. I live in Houston, an area where we pay the price for lax regulations and for Texas's decision to not comply with federal standards. Air pollution here is awful, comparable only to when I lived in Santiago, Chile, and local and state leaders have been clear they have no intention of doing anything to limit emissions. I hope the standards will include consequences for states and plants that do not comply.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards119 From: Brian Bansenauer [bansenauer@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 12:18 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: We need action now



### T yphoon Haiyan should be a wake-up call about the tragic potential of a world ravaged by climate change.

We need speedy action to strongly regulate carbon emissions from new and existing power plants.

The world can't wait, please redouble your efforts.

-- Brian120 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Carolyn Nikkal Ed.D. [ni2k_c@fastmail.us] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 11:47 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:46
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Carolyn Nikkal Ed.D.
Email: ni2k_c@fastmail.us
Comments: I am writing due to my alarm at the latest scientific reports on catastrophic climate change.
The science makes it clear that business as usual will devastate us all and that carbon emissions must be drastically reduced as soon as possible to avoid creating a climate unfit for human survival. Even immediate action will not spare us from the devastation that we are seeing today with ferocious storms, intractable drouths, severe ocean acidification, sea level rise and the dramatic increase of methane release from the Arctic Circle permafrost regions and the under water stores of methane being released due to the increased Arctic ice melting.

We can however reduce the damage by moving quickly to fossil free electric power generation. Studies show that such a shift to carbon free power is economically feasible and desirable. To not make the shift is the largest possible crime against humanity and nature, especially since the cost of doing so is a mere fraction of the damage from inaction.

Any rules that you formulate must be grounded in this irrefutable truth. No economic hardship to special interests can begin to out weigh the damage to life itself.

Any rules must give science based goals of:eliminating carbon emissions from all power plants as rapidly as possible. A clear goal of no new carbon emitting power plants by 2020 and a clear goal of shutting existing p;ants by 2025 would facilitate the needed shift to 100% renewable wind, solar, geothermal, hydroelectric and wave energy. Nothing short of such a shift will give the planet the breathing space to begin to heal from the damage that we have already done.

We did not intend to create the kind of global destruction and degradation that is now underway. As a boomer, I was all to much a part of the cheap energy train that is now out of hand. We did not understand what we were doing or the magnitude of the damage. BUT NOW WE KNOW! Damage caused by ignorance is bad enough. To add an even greater burden to the planet when we know better is unforgivable and epitomizes the core of evil.

You can make a big difference in reversing our destruction of the planet by taking bold, scientifically sound actions and formulation a clear, bold carbon reduction plan that will send clear economic signals to reduce carbon and to encourage the swift development of truly
sustainable sources of energy: solar, wind, geothermal, hydroelectric, and wave energy. Our country has pulled together in mass industrialization during WW11. We can pull together to stop climate change with a pivot to a carbon free future. The alternatives are too grim.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards121 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Ed Outlaw [outlaw@mindspring.com] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 11:33 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/18/2013 - 11:32
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Ed Outlaw
Email: outlaw@mindspring.com Comments: Reducing carbon from power plants is extremely important to our future. Climate change is a real problem and this is a significant way to have an impact. While those with economic interests in Coal Plants, like the EMC's and Georgia Power in my State of Georgia, deny that reducing carbon from coal plants can be done in a way that does not hurt us economically, they are incorrect. Through energy efficiency and renewables, we can have a positive impact, create jobs, and keep the cost of power reasonably low, even with a carbon
tax. Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards122 From: Lauren Coogan [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 2:34 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, Lauren Coogan Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 28 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.123 From: Livia Jackson [livijac@comcast.net] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 11:46 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: stop carbon pollution from existing power plants!

Greetings I'm Livia Jackson, and spoke at your hearings week before last...

A s you know, the existing coal plants in the US emit one/third of all greenhouse gases. We are reaching a tipping point. Our window to lower global warming is closing. It's time to phase out all fossil fuel plants. Germany just reported closing 2/3rds of their ff plants this year because solar is growing so fast there. Citizens own 50% of their renewable power sources. We have more sun, we can do this too.

We are waking up and realizing what these dirty fuels have done to our NW and our planet. Globally 2-4 million people a year are dying from air pollution. 50-100,000 here in the US alone, Stanford reports. We see it now: how we have been paying the costs for all the floods, fires, droughts, loss of ocean and terrestrial ecosystems. Paying for the growing tragic crises in public health which has benefitted the profits of fossil fuel companies. We even give them 4 billion a year in subsidies. Even China is waking up- pollution is shutting down whole cities. Only now are we measuring particulate matter 1 micron or smaller. This is 90% of coal air pollution and now we know that it can cross the lung/bloodstream barrier and cause cardiovascular failure. Before only 2.5 microns was measured.

Public health catastrophes are reaching us here- the insect and pest disease vectors are not dying off in a warm winter and so keep moving north. Already the pine bark beetle is destroying our forests, West Nile and Lyme disease are in Wa.; Now Dengue fever is here Yellow fever has reached Calif. Malaria is moving up from the south. Asthma and respiratory diseases are epidemic.

Our fishing industries and oceans are in peril-Oceans are warming faster than in the last 10,000 years. The plankton will die off with a 1 degree rise in ocean temperature. They are the basis of our food chain. Although only 1% of the biomass on earth, they create 50% of

our oxygen.

I hope for a carbon tax and dividend bill as Citizen Climate Lobby works for, but with broken govt. I urge you to reduce emissions to the fullest extent. Stanford's Energy and Atmosphere Program in Engineering has a brilliant transition plan to clean energy. We would save enormous money, create jobs and prevent massive suffering to build out solar and wind.

Please act now to preserve and protect our country and our Planet Earth. Thank you,
Livia Jackson124 From: Nextgalaxy@aol.com Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 10:57 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon pollution standards for existing power plants

Dear EPA:

Please enact the strongest possible standards for reducing CO2 emissions from all power plants, existing and future. Please apply them equitably to all forms of energy generation, looking at life cycle emissions of power plants, from construction and operation through end-of-life disposal. A sensible metric to limit would be pounds of CO2 emitted per kilowatt hour generated (electric + useful heat), averaged over the power system's lifetime. If these standards are ramped up over a period of years, the power industry can deal with them without disruptive power outages or price spikes. Gradually tightening the standards will give the energy market time to transition away from fossil fuels and toward whatever mix of renewables and nuclear power makes the most economic sense.

For years I had been meaning to tell somebody in government the following story, and now the time is right. When I first saw a mountain of coal sitting next to a coal-fired power plant, way back in the late 1950's, I was flabbergasted. I worried that burning mountains of coal like that would eventually ruin the atmosphere, until I was reassured by my parents that an up-and-coming alternative called nuclear power would soon displace coal burning as our main source of electricity. They gave me the book, "Our Friend the Atom", after which I was able to grow up without fearing for the future of life on Earth.

Fifty years later, it's obvious that my worst childhood fears were not misplaced. In fact, things are even worse than I had feared, because CO2 emissions are ruining the oceans as well as the atmosphere. Why are we still burning coal? What kid growing up today would NOT fear for the future of life on Earth?



### Michael Pelizzari

n extgalaxy@aol.com "Remember: only YOU can prevent global warming."125 From: Elizabeth Glidden [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 10:53 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, Elizabeth Glidden Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 26 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.126 From: Judy Black [jwbblooms@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 10:38 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Reducing CO2 emissions



### Dear EPA,
O ur CO2 emissions are dangerously high and our coal powered plants are contributing to much of this pollution. We have limited time to protect our world and prevent the disastrous consequences of climate change. We must limit the warming to less than 2 degrees Centigrade. We depend on the EPA to make decisions which will protect us. It is vital to make changes in our energy production and work toward renewable energy sources.

Sincerely, Judy Black127 From: Cameron Holley [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 10:02 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, Cameron Holley Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 26 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.128 From: Abbey Martin [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:35 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, Abbey Martin Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 25 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.129 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Kory Davis [kdavis346@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 9:03 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sun, 11/17/2013 - 21:02
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Kory Davis
Email: kdavis346@gmail.com Comments: The U.S. needs to strive to meet the Kyoto Protocol goals. Enacting strict carbon caps on existing and new power plants needs to happen immediately.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards130 From: Catherine C [cv_carter@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 7:59 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: please choose courageously



### EPA must regulate e xisting stationary sources — in the case of CO2, primarily power plants — under Section 111(d)

.

It will take courage to stand up to short-sighted profit- motivated souls who tout the loss of jobs or suffering of the poor under higher costs.

Please do stand up to them on behalf of your grandchildren, or those of your friends.

thanks, Catherine131 From: Robert von Tobel [rvon_tobel@hotmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2013 12:15 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: My Input re: Carbon Pollution



### The USA, and the rest of the world too, have many major problems today.

If we solve all of them except GLOBAL WARMING we will have accomplished absolutely NOTHING!!! Mankind will still go extinct on this planet.

This is a scientific fact – unquestionable! Deniers of this are ignorant fools.

Robert von Tobel132 From: Kathleen Thompson [katalinat@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 11:47 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Please implement strong regulations limiting CO2 emissions

Dear EPA,

I t is critical that CO2 emissions be reduced as soon and as much as possible, and one of the most effective ways to do so is for government to ensure that polluters pay for the emissions they do not clean up. Please implement strong regulations on emissions from coal fired power plants, as a first and important step toward leveling the playing field so that clean renewable sources of energy can compete fairly.

Respectfully, Kathleen Thompson Menlo Park, CA 94025133 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Dr. Mona Mehdy [mcmehdy@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 5:39 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sat, 11/16/2013 - 17:39
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Dr. Mona Mehdy
Email: mcmehdy@gmail.com Comments: As a professional biologist, I am well aware of the destabilization of the planet's cycles, ocean acidity, and ecosystems, agriculture and human societies by climate change. I urge immediate and urgent action to sharply curtail carbon dioxide from existing coal plants and also urge further reductions in other pollutants such as mercury, sulfur oxides which have caused cumulative damage here in Texas waterways and lands and nationally.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards134 From: David Perk [davidperk@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 4:03 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Strengthen regulation of existing coal plants



### To Whom It May Concern:

I support strengthening the regulation of emissions, including carbon pollution, from existing power plants.

As you must be aware, the International Panel on Climate Change has acknowledged that we have used the majority of the “carbon budget” available to us if we are going to maintain the climate that our species has evolved in. Only one third of that budget remains available to us, 20% of known carbon reserves. Only by consuming these reserves prudently can we transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy. Our use of the dirtiest, most carbon polluting forms of energy must be ended as quickly as possible. All coal fired power plants in the US should be closed over the next 15 years, 20 at

most.

I am glad to see that the EPA is taking steps to address carbon pollution. I wish those steps had begun sooner and were more dramatic. The transition from carbon polluting forms of energy to renewable energy is going to be disruptive and economically stressful. All branches of governme nt should be working together with this transition as their top priority if we are going to leave future generations a climate that in any way resembles the one we have now.

Sincerely yours,

David Perk

842 NE 67 th 

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S eattle, WA 98115135 From: Elizabeth Ringstad [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 2:11 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, Elizabeth Ringstad Greensburg, Pennsylvania

There are now 23 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.136 From: Michael Ratner [michaeli.ratner@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:38 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comment on carbon emission from power plants



### I write to urge the EPA to develop guidelines, rules, and enforcement mechanisms adequate to address the

t hreat that carbon pollution poses to the health, safety, security, prosperity and quality of life of people all over the world. This threat arguably now exceeds that of all other sources of pollution combined. Since power plants are such a large source, and since the various available technologies have such vastly different carbon footprints, all living people, and even those unborn, should be considered stakeholders in the control of carbon pollution.

As the most energy intensive nation on earth, we have both a moral obligation and a real-politic need to lead in the shift of 21st century civilization away from fossil fuels. If we fail to act to dramatically reduce our production of CO2 and other greenhouse gases, the worldwide costs will be not merely staggering, but unprecedented. The typhoon in the Philippines is just the latest example of a type of disaster that will become more frequent with climate change. The forest fires in the American West cannot be ignored. Likewise the recent floods in South Asia. And year by year, sea level rise due to global warming is eroding coastal farmland, beaches, homes and threatening large parts of major cities, including many of their most historic neighborhoods. Given these threats, as soberly and even conservatively described by the IPCC, even the major financial costs of pollution reduction pale in comparison to the costs of inaction.

Fortunately, the power generation has a variety of options currently available to reduce carbon pollution. Moreover, the increased efficiency of modern electrical devices ensures that higher generation costs will not cripple our future prosperity; to the contrary, good jobs will be created by a switch to renewable energy. I therefore ask that the EPA act to ensure that this switch occurs. I heartily support the idea of forbidding the construction of any new power plants as carbon emitting as existing coal-fire plants. I equally support the phasing out of existing inefficient plants with all deliberate speed.

Sincerely, Michael Ratner, Arlington, Massachusetts137 From: Mark G Weatherhead [mgw@randm.us] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:35 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Contact Us Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Dear Environmental Protection Agency,

On November 7, 2013 I spoke at the Listening Session held in Washington, D.C. Right before it was my turn to speak I d ecided to discard my prepared detailed presentation and instead read from my scribbled notes I wrote on the bus in transit to the hearings from Pennsylvania.

Hello!, I am here from Pennsylvania to add my voice in support The Environmental Protection Agency and President O bama's Climate Action Plan.A step in the right direction.

I'm not new to environmental awareness. For 50 of my 63 years I have immersed myself into it. I can remember the day th e creation of The Environmental Agency was announced. There was a power and message in the name alone,Environmental Protection.Just hearing the full title is an educational experence.

It seems to me the agency would be better off using ir's full title as much as possible rather than just EPA.

EPA sounds menacing and threating, almost like a decease, diminishing the full strenght and potental impact of the

a gency.

I am here to remind the agency to not be afraid to live up to it's name,Environmental Protection and make it a priority to

e nact strong and enforceable national standards to control and reduce carbon emissions, to protect our planet from worsening climate change. This is urgent, we can not delay any longer.

Sooner than later, should be the motto and goal.

For all those who have any doubt of human impact on the ecology of the planet and ultimatly it's climate need only look at th e decades of accumulated scientific evidence. The truth is there, all you have to do is see it.

What ever is decided, we must be firm in our resolve to tackle and end dirty energy as we know it today. The time for

a ction is now.

While sitting here listening I'm reminded of a few quotes I learned as a kid, that seem releavant and worth remembering. T hey have stuck in my mind, helping me stay focused, becoming part of my everyday consiousness.

The first one is from John Muir: "When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world."

Concluding with two attributed to Chief Seattle: "The Earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the Eaeth.", and f inally "We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children."

Thank You, for the opportunity to have a voice in the conversation,as we move forward.

Sincerely,

Ron Raz 525 Church Hill Road, P.O. Box 25138 Ferndale, Pennsylvania 18921

215-806-1179139 From: Margaret Welke [mwelke@tds.net] Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 1:06 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution Reduction



### Thank you for proposing to limit carbon pollution from new power plants. Without these standards in place,

p olluters will continue to dump an unlimited amount of carbon pollution into our air -- pollution which is fueling the destruction of the planet. And this is not hyperbole – this is real and the devastation is happening now. It will only get worse.

It is time, past time, that our government stands up for the people of this country, rather than aiding and abetting business as usual for the fossil fuel companies. Fossil fuel industries have poured millions of dollars into lobbying efforts to undermine your proposed life-saving protections. And their Congressional allies are even trying to roll back EPA authority to control carbon pollution. The whole scenario is unconscionable.

Carbon pollution is acidifying our oceans, upon which all life depends. It is causing sea levels to rise, which will devastate coastlines around the world, where the majority of major cities are located, where the most people live and where most of our cultural treasures are located. Carbon pollution is causing ecosystem changes that are overwhelmingly negative and the mining and transportation of fossil fuels is poisoning our air, water and soil. Carbon pollution is increasing the frequency and intensity of storms and droughts. How much money are we spending year after year in a vain effort to repair the latest damage? Damage that all too often cannot be repaired. How much devastation can the people and other living things on this earth take from the continual battering of which Typhoon Haiyan and Hurricane Sandy are just two of the more recent egregious examples. How do we possibly repair the Kalamazoo River let alone the Gulf of Mexico?

As a member of The Citizens Climate Lobby, 350.org and many other organizations devoted to saving the earth for its inhabitants, I have pledged my life to this endeavor. I hope that the EPA will stand with me and all the people on this precious earth who have the courage to face reality. Help us by demanding that we act immediately and substantively to reverse carbon pollution and engage our most brilliant minds to researching and capitalizing clean, safe renewables.

I urge you to stand strong against the pressure of fossil fuel companies and those in Congress who are too frightened to do what must be done. As Dante wrote: “The darkest places in hell are reserved for those who maintain their neutrality in times of moral crisis.” I don't know where he would send those who actively work to create the crisis, but I do know that we face no greater crisis than this.

Margaret Welke
410 Clemons Avenue Madison, WI 53704

608.246.2159 mwelke@tds.net

T HE EARTH -- PRICELESS!140 From: Beth Funsch [bethfunsch@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 2:33 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: NO to carbon pollution from power plants.



### Dear EPA,
P lease stop allowing pollution from existing power plants to pollute our air and water! thank you,
Beth Funsch
Portland OR
97214141 From: john mikus [mikuslaw@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 2:32 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Stop the Burning of Coal at Aging Power Plants Like the Fayette Power Project of the LCRA



### Please impose the new environmental regulations for new coal fired power plants on all old coal fired power plants like the Fayette Power Project in my home county of Fayette County, Texas.

Irrigated pecan trees and cedar trees and now live oak trees that have survived repeated droughts are dead or dying in Fayette and surrounding counties because, in my opinion, of the acid rain and micro climate change produced by the LCRA's aging coal burning Fayette Power Project. The most severe drought stricken areas of Texas are typically located near a coal fired power plant. In the case of the Fayette Power Project the area east of the plant repeatedly experience rains born by cold fronts diminishing substantially as they approach the Fayette Power Project which minute by minute time elapsed radar graphically depicts to the viewer.

Furthermore, there are indications that private and public water wells are being contaminated with arsenic and heavy metals due to leakage of its coal ash waste pond and that the problem has been ignored despite awareness by state agencies for decades now. Fayette County has one of the highest rates of cancer in the state. It has been reported that 10 out of 12 families living near the boundary of the Fayette Power Project have suffered from cancer.

Farmers and being denied water from the Colorado River to grow our food and maintain our agricultural economy and protect our bays and wetlands in part because the Fayette Power Project wastes huge volumes of water taken from the river.

The external cost of coal simply outweighs any of its alleged internal costs. To add insult to injury the Fayette Power Project is part of the almost 2 billion Texas dollars Texans send out of state each year to politically influential out of state coal companies at great loss to our economy and the green jobs alternative energy would create in Texas.

Your failure to impose environmental regulations on these aging coal fired power plants in effect subsidizes the wealthy and politically well connected at great cost to the average taxpayer and their families - a cost far greater than the illusory internal savings of using coal to boil water to generate electricity especially when natural gas, solar, and wind are internally far more cost effective in the long term.

Please do not make political compromises with the coal industry given the tremendous external costs and suffering such compromises entail for Texas not to mention our planet.

Very truly yours,

John W. Mikus Fayette County landowner and Houston resident 8118 Neff St. Houston, Texas 77036 832-212-1600142 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Ben Taube [bentaube@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 2:24 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 14:23
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Ben Taube
Email: bentaube@gmail.com Comments: Related to the carbon pollution standards, we should exhaust all cost effective energy efficiency measures as part of the solution to controlling plant emissions. Look at the success of other states that have energy efficiency as a generation resource competing directly with traditional generation sources.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards143 From: Ashley Tanski [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 11:10 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, Ashley Tanski Random lake, Wisconsin

There are now 22 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.144 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Fred Penny [fredmpenny@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 11:16 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 15, 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. Fred Penny 2601 Martin Luther King Jr Dr Cleveland, OH 44104-3806 (216) 229-5998145 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Helen Schietinger [h.schietinger@verizon.net] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 10:57 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Fri, 11/15/2013 - 10:56
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Helen Schietinger
Email: h.schietinger@verizon.net
Comments: In regard to developing the carbon pollution standard for existing power plants: The EPA has all the expertise it needs to set an appropriately strong standard. You know, based on scientific evidence, that coal- fired power, from extraction to combustion, has already had a devastating effect on the earth, contributing significantly to air pollution and global warming (aka climate change). Given the context in which you are functioning, though, receiving pressure from climate change nay-sayers as well as people concerned about carbon pollution, I feel a need to state what is obvious: The acronym EPA stands for Environmental Protection Agency: not U.S. Economic Interests Protection Agency, not Coal Company Protection Agency, and not Powerful Political Interests Protection Agency.

Coal-fired plants should have been much more closely regulated, if not shut down, long ago. Our country has lost decades of time in the transfer to using renewable energy because powerful energy corporations resisted the process. We can’t afford to lose more time because power companies complain about their bottom line. The EPA knows the right thing to do. So do your job: Draft strong carbon reduction standards. I live in Washington DC. I am a taxpayer, I am an RN, and I am a citizen of this country. I am also a grateful inhabitant of this beautiful earth. I'm counting on you.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards146 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Gabrielle Burton [gcb@fivesistersproductions.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 10:46 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 15, 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. Gabrielle Burton 4361 Liberty Rd Delaware, OH 43015-8616147 From: Ohio Environmental Council [OEC@theOEC.org] on behalf of Staci Savage [savage_staci@yahoo.com] Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 10:16 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's Time to Cut Carbon to Protect Our Health!

N ov 15, 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. Staci Savage 1618 Springhill Ave Dayton, OH 45409-1864148 From: Patricia J Miller Schimpf [patti_mw@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:39 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Patricia J Miller Schimpf
1387 N. Oakwood Rd Oshkosh, WI 54904149 From: donna murphy [donnalee59@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:31 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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,

donna murphy 6130 century avenue middleton, WI 53562150 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Kristen [craft1681@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 22:21
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Kristen
Email: craft1681@gmail.com Comments: As a student, I am frustrated with the lack of regulations on carbon pollution, a
main c ause of global warming. I am very passionate about this topic considering my generation will have to live in this world in the future, and I would like to keep our environment clean for not only me but any later generations. I feel that carbon emissions should be strictly monitored to slow the rate of pollution. Thank you!
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards151 From: litwits98@aol.com Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:48 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: clean up carbon pollution

I strongly support Environmental Protection Agency Standards 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.

Linda Smoucha 25 N. Waterman Ave. Arlington Heights, IL 60004152 From: Gerald Flynn [Admiralsqueaky@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 9:23 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Gerald Flynn 3406 quam dr Stoughton, WI 53589153 From: Joan Hebert [joanheb@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:05 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Cc: Joan Hebert Subject: strong regulations on CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants



### 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,
Joan Hebert154 From: Bobby Righi [bobby.righi@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:23 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Closing Coal-fired Power Plants.



### Dear EPA:

I urge you to close dirty coal-fired power plants. The Union of Concerned Scientists has listed 353 coal-fired power plants ready for retirement and if these were all closed, we would be avoiding 1.3 million tons of sulfur dioxide and 300,000 tons of nitrogen oxide emissions each year as well as significant amounts of mercury, particulates, and other toxic emissions. It would also keep 260 million tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere each year assuming they were replaced entirely with zero-emissions resources like wind and solar.

The cleaner air will benef it children who are the main victims of asthma and developmental problems caused by lead and other toxic substances. It is a moral imperative to move strongly and quickly to close these power plants.

Thank you, Bobby Righi155 From: Bruce Sigmon [bruce.h.sigmon@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 7:01 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution Standards for Existing Power Plants



### I attended the public meeting in Atlanta October 23rd discussing plans to limit CO2 pollution for existing power plants.

I was pleased that the introductory video indicated that these were changes that are coming and not that our input is being requested in order to decide whether to limit or not. If that is indeed the case, I have little to say on how to implement these changes. The economist who spoke probably gave good guidance, but you may be operating with political restraints.

Anyway, I urge you to take a bold stance toward less CO2 emissions. The U.S. used to be a "can do" nation. When I read of how we ramped up to the challenges of WWII or achieved a landing on the moon in 10 years and compare it with our lack of leadership on this effort which is necessary to prevent a new dark age, if not extinction, I wonder if we are the same nation.

Finally, after enduring the countless ads for "clean coal", I am disappointed to see power company officials implying that that was all a lie.

In short, please take bold action now and show the world that the U.S. can still lead on important efforts.

-- "If humanity wishes to preserve a planet similar to that on which civilization developed and to which life on earth is adapted, paleoclimate evidence and ongoing climate change suggest that CO2 will need to be reduced from its current 385 ppm to at most 350 ppm" - http://www.tomdispatch.com/post/174930156 From: Jamie Horneman [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 6:15 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, Jamie Horneman Park Forest, Illinois

There are now 21 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.157 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Aly [Alytharp@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:57 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Thu, 11/14/2013 - 17:56
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Aly
Email: Alytharp@gmail.com Comments: There must be NO "grandfathering" whatsoever in these regulations. If a refinery cannot meet carbon pollution standards, it DESERVES to go out of business and make space for transition to better energy sources. If you start creating loopholes to your standards, you lose, and we all lose.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards158 From: Susan Missett-King [smissettking@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:14 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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,

Susan Missett-King 5106 Regent St. Madison, WI 53705159 From: catrayl dalyan [catrayl@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 5:04 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: No! to carbon pollution

Please, stop the dirty existing power plants in the USA! Help make change to stop the carbon pollution. There are lots of ways this needs to be addressed and few that we can do without your help. Please help reduce then stop carbon pollution. catrayl

Catrayl Atkyn Seattle, WA 98115160 From: Susan Rosenzweig [srosenz@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 3:40 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Limiting CO2 emissions

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 an important action EPA can take to curb climate change...


## Susan Rosenzweig srosenz@comcast.net161 From: Mardel Rick [arick@chibardun.net] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:42 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Mardel Rick
673 Beach ST. Barron, WI 54812162 From: rick gorud [rags47@centuylink.net] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:35 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

rick gorud p,o, box 1 Minong, WI 54859163 From: Janice Doyle [doylejce@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:32 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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 stres s 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 Doyle
3034 Acker Street Cross Plains, WI 53528164 From: Kathy [kpimentel@att.net] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 1:05 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Coal-fired power plants

Dear EPA, Please support strong regulations to limit CO2 emmisions from existing coal-fired power plants. We have already begun to feel the effects of climate change in devasting ways (ask the victims of Katrina, Sandy and Yolanda). We must institute strict measures to control and eventually reverse this trend. Along with the burning of fossil fuel, cola- fired power plants are a major contributor to carbon polution. In order to avoid frying the planet and all the animals and human beings living on it, we are counting on you to have to courage to regulate
CO2 emissions.

Sincerely, Kathleen Pimentel165 From: Environmental Law and Policy Center [elpcinfo@elpc.org] on behalf of Jill Mittelhauser [jmittelhsr@hotmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:44 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's time for strong carbon standards

N ov 14, 2013

U.S. EPA

Dear EPA,

I was pleased when President Obama announced his Climate Action Plan in June, and I hope U.S. EPA follows through with aggressive carbon pollution reduction standards that will make a difference in our fight against climate change.

This is especially important in the Midwest, where we have a large concentration of old, dirty coal power plants that produce a lot of air pollution that contributes to our climate change problems and that affects our health.

Climate change impacts are already starting to hurt people in the Midwest. More days of extreme heat are hard in old cities like Chicago, where lots of folks have asthma and other respiratory issues and where lots of folks don't have access to air conditioning. It's also very hard on Midwestern farmers, who deal with droughts one year and floods the next -- and that, in turn, can affect food prices for everyone.

This is hurting our health and hurting our pocketbooks. And it's only going to get worse unless we do something about it. That's why I hope the U.S. EPA designs STRONG standards to curb carbon pollution.

Sincerely,

Ms. Jill Mittelhauser
1314 Wilder St Evanston, IL 60202-1170166 From: Jill Armentrout [jtroutcar@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 11:37 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear EPA:

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

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

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

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

Sincerely,

Jill Armentrout
706 N. Main St. Lake Mills, WI 53551167 From: Carol Johnson [cgjohnson3919@gmail.com] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:51 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Strong New Source Carbon Pollution Rules

D ear 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,

Carol Johnson
2235 Point Rd spooner, WI 54801168 From: eggleson [eggleson@centurytel.net] Sent: Thursday, November 14, 2013 10:01 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution Standards

I did not attend any of the recent hearings--I live almost 450 miles from the closest one in Chicago, and it seemed hypocritical to drive that far (even in my hybrid car), burning fossil fuels, to voice concern about carbon emissions.

I am nonetheless, extremely concerned, so am writing to urge you to set the strongest possible standards to reduce

c arbon pollution from coal-fired power plants, the largest source of carbon emissions in the country. Strong emissions standards are a critical step in reducing the truly frightening threat of climate change, the impacts of which are already evident in tragedies like last week's typhoon in the Philippines.

I firmly believe that Americans, myself included, need to do much more to reduce our energy consumption levels, and I

a m committed to doing so. In the meantime, however, I hope you will work quickly to finalize strong carbon pollution standards for both new and existing power plants by June 2015.

Thank you for considering my comments.

Shari Eggleson Washburn, WI169 From: Santussika Bhikkhuni [santussika@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 10:18 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: We need tight restrictions on carbon pollution - please do all you can



### Dear friends at the EPA,

P lease set a high standard for low carbon emissions for coal-fired power plants. Our future depends upon a drastic reduction in CO2 pollution. This is your mission. I'm so happy that you are there doing the work you do. I want you to know that when you make tough standards, I'm behind you 100%.

Thank you.

Sincerely,

Laura DeYoung

279 Aviador Ave., Millbrae CA 94030 (650) 556-6427170 From: Lynn Fitz-Hugh [lynn.fitzhugh@earthlink.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 8:11 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Yes stop coal plant carbon pollution

I was not able to go to the hearing you held last Thurs because I was at work but I want to add my voice to those who are begging you to do everything in your power to regulate carbon pollution from existing power plants. As you are well aware if we do not get back down to 350 parts per carbon per million we are facing the next great extinction only 100 years out...I shudder for my unborn and maybe never to be born grandchildren. It is nothing short of insanity for us not to act now and so all we can. My only ask is do it as quickly as you possibly can because every bit of carbon we don’t release determines how severe the problems my child and her peers will face!

Thanks, Lynn Fitz-Hugh171 From: sarah davidson [sarahcdavidson@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 8:06 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comments on carbon pollution standards for existing power plants



### To whom it may concern,

B elow is the testimony I read at the EPA Listening Session on Guidelines for Reducing Carbon Pollution from Existing Power Plants in Philadelphia, PA on November 8, 2013. I thank the EPA for holding these hearings and for providing a forum for public input as it prepares these new standards. My comments are based on my education in the earth sciences and my experience with stakeholder-based natural resources management.

"As you consider how to regulate carbon emissions from existing fossil-fuel fired power plants, I know you are asked, and pressured, to make rules that will be easy for states and industry to comply with, and to minimize the consequences of non-compliance. You will be driven to come to a solution that balances the input of states, industry, environmentalists, and citizens. As you consider the concerns of all these groups, I urge you to remember that while you may come up with a standard that is acceptable to everyone, it won't matter if it doesn't lead to reduced greenhouse gas emissions. We cannot compromise with the sun or the atmosphere—we cannot ask physics or chemistry for more time because it might be expensive to comply with new regulation.

Thus your proposed rules must above all be based on the best available science. This includes the most recent IPCC report and also science that addresses the possibility of non-linear climate feedbacks, such as ice sheet disintegration, that are not included in most global climate models. Your decisions must be based on what is most likely to prevent catastrophic climate change.

If you choose to avoid the available information, and create regulations that meet the short-term interests of companies that have much more than three minutes to talk to you, remember that you cannot later pretend you didn't know what was happening. Changes to the climate are happening today and are being documented, analyzed, and made public. We have waited long enough to act—another 10 or 20 year delay before our emissions start to decrease is not acceptable. If the EPA, if the US, does not lead on this, it is not only our grandchildren's grandchildren who will pay the price. We are going to be answering to our own children. Our own grandchildren.

The good news here is that those who worry primarily about economic consequences of reducing emissions are not only ignoring the economic costs of carbon pollution, they are also profoundly underestimating the creativity of the American people. You give us real incentives to replace outdated methods of powering our economy, and we will do it! We just need to be told, firmly, that it is time to get started.

In closing, I urge the EPA to make strong emissions standards to regulate greenhouse gases from fossil-fuel fired power plants, without loopholes, and with concrete enforcement mechanisms.

Thank you for your attention."

I recognize that the implementation of these new regulations will be more successful if it is recognized that the public supports them. It was clear from the listening session in Philadelphia that the EPA has support from a wide range of constituencies. I see it as my responsibility to help raise awareness about the benefits of regulating carbon emissions within my community—friends, family and neighbors in the Philadelphia area and172 

### across the US. In addition, please do not hesitate to contact me if there are other actions I can take to promote the new carbon pollution regulations.

Best regards,

Sarah C Davidson Swarthmore, PA173 From: Krista Collard [krista.collard@sierraclub.org] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 4:53 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Cc: Michael Medler Subject: Contact Us Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website



### Dr. Michael Medler, EPA Statement, Seattle WA Nov. 7, 2013

W ildfire and Climate Change

My name is Dr. Michael Medler. I would like to limi t my comments to just the relationship between wildfires and carbon in our atmosphere. I worked as a Forest Service fire fighter in the 1980s, I am the current chair of Environmental Studies at Western Washington University, I was founding editor of the peer reviewed scientific journal Fire Ecology, and I served as president of the Association for Fire Ecology. I have also been researching forest fires for 20 years, and I have testified for US congressional committees about the linkages between
climate and wildfire.

When I was fighting fire in the 1980s a 20,000-40,000 acre fire was considered huge and newsworthy. Now we are commonly seeing fires that are more than ten times that size and our total annual acreage burned in the US is more than double what I was seeing most years when I was fighting fire.

There is a now considerable scientific consensus that climate change is effecting wildfires. Fires are getting bigger, hotter, and more expensive, and fire seasons are two months longer than they were just a few decades

ago.

The responses to this situation can no longer be poli tically driven, and it is no longer just scientists that are concerned. For example, Lloyds of London has put out several reports over the last few years recommending that the insurance industry start planning for considerable losses as climate change results in increased in
wildfire losses in the wildland urban interface.

Climate and wildfire are complex processes and fire i s an integral and natural part of most terrestrial ecosystems. However, as we build more and more communities into burnable landscapes we are setting ourselves for increasing numbers of large property destroying fires. If we continue to perturb our global climate systems we should expect these problems to increase dramatically.174 

### Fires larger than three hundred acres account for more than 95 percent of the area burned in the United States, and these fires are almost always associated with extreme weather. In fact, these large fires tend to happen in very narrow ranges of weather conditions that may only occur a few days a year in most places. The classic examples are the fires associated with the Santa Ana wind in California, or the large drought driven mega fires in the Rockies and Cascades that tend to explode on the hottest, driest, and windiest days of the year. For example, the Yarnell Hill fire that killed 19 fire fighters in Arizona last summer occurred while temperature records were being set nearby in Phoenix, and the huge fires that killed over 170 people in Australia in 2009 occurred while temperature records were being shattered by several degrees.

Many large fires are directly linked directly to ext reme weather events. Unfortunately, subtle sounding changes in climate can cause profound changes in how often these conditions occur. A few degrees higher annual

a verage temperatures doesn’t just mean you will have a few days with higher temps. It means the temps you used to see only one or two days a year could now occur dozens of times, and the temps that used to happen every few decades can now happen every few years.

Right now, it is very rare to have the combination o f temperatures, wind, humidity, and ignitions that cause large destructive fires. However, as we start increasing the numbers of days with these weather combinations, while increasing the number of people living in burnable landscapes, we should expect to see continued growth in the number and intensity of very large fires that are directly impacting our communities.

For example, a recent study looked at how these chan ges are likely to effect the greater Yellowstone area. The result was that we could expect the entire region to be burned over in about a 30 year periods rather than the 300-500 years we see in the history of the area. Changes like these could have profound effects on ecosystem and our towns and communities throughout the US.

Here in Washington we have some large west-side fore sts that have historically burned as infrequently as every 500-1000 years. It would take very little change in our summer tem peratures, or the lengths of our summer droughts, for these forests to start burning every few decades.

-- Krista Collard Northwest Regional Press Secretary175 

### Beyond Coal- Sierra Club {o} 415.977.5619 {c} 614.622.9109176 From: David Hohmann [fact.chair@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:37 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: supporting permanent shift away from carbon pollution



### I'm strongly in favor of any actions that can be taken now to reduce our nation's carbon footprint. We are

a lready past the tipping point of 350 ppm CO2. I've been a daily bike and transit commuter for the past 6 years in efforts to reduce my own personal carbon footprint. I buy carbon credits. I also buy 100 percent green renewable wind energy now through my local grid power utility. I'm tired of people saying sustainable energy steps are either impractical, or unworkable, or unaffordable. It's clear to me that such measures are reasonable and required. Fear of change is the biggest impediment to sustainable behavior change. Like it or not, climate is changing drastically now due to human inputs. It's past time we got our energy sources shifted away from unsustainable fossil fuels. Starting with old inefficient coal fired power plants. I live in a state (Ohio) that is full of coal fired power, and should know. I doubt you will come up with something that is strong enough to address the problem fully, but please don't fail to try with everything the US EPA can bring to bear on this

matter.

-- JD Hohmann
Ohio177 From: eileen menteer [ementeer@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 2:18 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: breath and temperature



### If you have children, and you care about their future, then you will take action now to

cu rb the looming warmth. An added benefit will be cleaner air for all of us to breathe.

Please set standards to limit carbon pollution.

Eileen Menteer178 From: Herbert Fitzell [h_fitzell@hotmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:59 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support for Carbon Emissions Standards

Hello,

I fully support the EPA and your attempts to limit carbon emissions. The crisis in the Phillipines underscores the urgent need for action. I have spoken with my congressional representatives, and they are truly frightened to say the science is legitimate. Rep. Randy Forbes would not admit that the science is valid. I asked state Senator Donald McEachin why so many elected officials in Washington are afraid to admit the validity of the science. He looked at my cell phone and asked if it was a recording device. Wow! Even stricter limits are needed than the ones currently proposed. Our elected officials are too afraid to take responsible action. That is why the EPA must take even stronger measures to prevent carbon pollution. Who will lead if the EPA does not?

I know the EPA does brilliant work, and I thank each and every employee for all you do. But you must do even more. Please move well beyond the normal comfort zone and force the issue. The people will support you and follow. The EPA is certainly one of the world's greatest institutions and our best hope for leadership on this issue.

I know you work long and hard. Thanks for all you do!!

Herbert Fitzell
14504 Rivermont Road Chester, VA 23836 (804)530-3114179 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Kurt Anderson [anderson.kurt@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:54 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 12:53
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Kurt Anderson
Email: anderson.kurt@sbcglobal.net Comments: I am very supportive of the EPA's efforts to reduce carbon pollution from existing power plants.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards180 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Michelle Knox [michelle@windsolarusa.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:26 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 12:26
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Michelle Knox
Email: michelle@windsolarusa.com Comments: Renewable technologies offer an opportunity to produce clean energy and reduce harmful carbon reduction. By imposing and enforcing tough standards on "dirty" power plants, we stand to reduce the emissions they elicit. This coupled with advocacy, funding and development of clean energy alternatives will help to ensure a safer future for ourselves and future generations. We must be firm and not give in to the lobbying efforts and money thrown at those efforts by the utility industry. They have the ability to make decisions to invest in clean energy- we just need to make it an economic no-brainer for them to go this route versus continuing the status quo. Thank you!
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards181 From: Lawrence Lindley [lmlindley@att.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 12:21 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Written Comments



### My name is Dr. Lawrence Lindley, with the Indianapolis Area Sierra Club. I’m a retired minister in New Palestine, Indiana. I am concerned for my grandchildren – what kind of world will they grow up in? We know that the atmosphere is well past the 350 ppm of Carbon dioxide that is safe for the Earth. Last summer we had an unprecedented drought in Indiana. Recently a devastating typhoon hit India and more recently a record breaking one caused extreme damage in the Philippines. Coal is one of the most significant contributors to co 2 

### in the atmosphere, a driver in these changes in our climate. The Earth is unraveling before our eyes and everything we can do to slow the process must be done, including strong regulations on carbon emissions for existing coal-fired power plants. It’s for the sake of all our grandchildren.182 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Lisa Albrecht [albrecht.lisa@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:43 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Wed, 11/13/2013 - 11:43
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Lisa Albrecht
Email: albrecht.lisa@gmail.com
Comments: Provided in Chicago on 11/8 Listening: Thank you for the opportunity to speak today. My name is Lisa Albrecht and I am a Renewable Energy Specialist at Solar Service, a local solar installer that has been building solar energy here in Chicago since 1977. I serve on the Board of Directors for the Illinois Solar Energy Association, an organization dedicated to the education and proliferation of solar energy in our state.

I am here today in support of strong emissions and pollution control standards for new power plants, particularly those using toxic, limited and dangerous fossil fuels. The role of government is complex. However I feel that a major responsibility of our local, state and federal entities, and therefore the EPA, is to safeguard our future, not just for tomorrow but for generations to come. Our planet is in peril and we are already witnessing the impacts of dirty energy.

The risks threaten our health, food, water, weather and even political stability. I myself have asthma after living in Asia and being exposed for years to toxic coal emissions and many
of those i know and love suffer from environmental illnesses. These new standards will ensu re a healthier future.

Fossil fuels have had their place in history. They have developed the worlds economies and gotten us to where we are today as a civilization. But they are yesterday's technologies built on yesterday's understanding of the risks and environmental costs of the emissions spewing constant pollution into our atmosphere.

It is time to embrace a new tomorrow. The new standards will offer a transition to a new energy era and an emerging economy, the clean energy economy.

Renewable energies offer a sustainable, economic and affordable energy solution. They are clean, efficient, stable, safe and offer solutions to the many challenges we face as a planet today. They are available everywhere, offering energy independence with abundant and free
fuel source.

The truth is that the more we invest in fossil fuels, the more expensive they become. We have mined the easiest fuels out of the ground and are now investing billions in extracting harder sources of energy in more vulnerable areas, threatening our very existence and vital resources we need for survival such as drinking water and farmland.

But what is missed by many is that the more we invest in clean energy the less expensive and more efficient it becomes! Solar energy for example has delivered more power to the grid in the past two years than the prior 40. And that capacity will double in the next two years. Wind is already proving affordable energy to millions of us citizens. The opportunities for renewable energy are endless and logical. These are mulit-billion dollar industries and the combination of these with energy efficiency and new technologies we have yet to discover will employ those working today in displaced and aging industries.183 I urge the EPA to stay strong in their mission to deliver a better future.

I encourage president obama to continue to develop clean, renewable technologies and ask ALL public officials to not take the easy road of status quo but to stand for our future by enforcing standards that will ensure our survival. Thank you for you leadership and courage.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards184 From: Karen Burtness Prak [operanut13@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 11:33 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Reducing Carbon Pollution from Existing Power Plants Crucial Component of Global Warming Battle!



### Dear EPA,

I t's crucial to our battle against global warming for the EPA to implement strong regulations which limit CO2 emissions from existing coal-fired plants to levels which should limit global warming to a maximum of two degrees centigrade.

We need to attack the major sources of CO2 emissions first, and forcefully, and it's well-known that these power plants are a major culprit in CO2 emissions and thus a major contributor to global warming and associated climate change. Since climate change, with its worldwide impact, jeopardizes the health, security and prosperity of not just Americans but people everywhere, no single industry, anywhere, should be given the freedom to impact it without penalty. We need to marginalize polluting industries and concentrate on moving to cleaner sources of energy which will protect and enhance our health as well as contributing to our prosperity by creating more jobs in research, development and industry.

Combating large-scale CO2 emissions such as these is, it strikes me, the single most important action the EPA can take right now to combat climate change!

Sincerely,
Karen Karen L. Burtness Prak 651 College Ave. Menlo Park, CA 94025-6201 (650) 329-1374185 From: Paula Stecker [paula.stecker@live.com] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:43 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Disaster preparedness versus addressing root causes



### Dear EPA,

I understand that you are listening to those of us who have seen climate change progressing and wonder at how slowly we are responding as a nation.

While aiding with the relief and recovery following the January 2010 earthquake in Haiti, I was able to work with several mountain communities as well as those along the shore. One tool in the disaster/development toolkit at this point is disaster preparedness. Millions go into helping places in the tropics “prepare” for the continued assault of flood, typhoon, hurricane, drought, etc. Like putting a bandaid on an acid burn as one continues to pour acid on the exposed member, why are we willing to pay for these programs, but not willing to address the causes?

Power plants continue to freely alter the atmosphere and we Profits are still made on industries that rely on nonrenewable resources. Industries continue to affect the climate at the expense of those on islands, and of animals whose ecologies are disappearing. The mountain forests of Haiti used to be full of birds and orchids, sheltered under the forest canopy. No more.

I wish I had the money and thus power of the lobbyists that keep the government from doing its job, but I don’t. I only have one voice. I have seen the destruction we are doing to this planet and I believe that our government should be doing everything it can to reverse the damage. Our comfort has been at too high a price. Stop rewarding the destroyers
with tax breaks. Reward those who find cleaner solutions to our needs.

Peace, Paula Stecker

Rev. Paula M. Stecker

717-542-1270186 From: Isabella Mohr [izzy@wt.net] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2013 9:16 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: please listen

To Whom It May Concern: I am writing not only for myself, but for my friend who died from an asthma attack; for a son of a friend who had a fatal asthma attack; and for a child I know who was recently diagnosed with asthma. It is up to you to protec t us from the air, water and earth polluters. Where were you for these people? You now have an opportunity to do something about it. I hope your conscience will guide you to do the correct thing and make the regulations stricter for coal and power plants and then enforce them. Thank you for listening,
Isabella Mohr187 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of JOANNE GROSS [grossj5715@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:49 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 11/12/2013 - 22:49
S ubmitted values are:

Name: JOANNE GROSS Email: grossj5715@gmail.com
Comments: Dear EPA Council, Please consider that your agency IS the ENVIRONMENTAL prot ection agency and we are facing the biggest environmental challenge ever with Climate Change and greenhouse gas pollution. Yesterday more than 2000 Filipinos died as a result of the biggest typhoon ever. The misery of those people will happen to 1000s of others because of the increasing energy and heat in the atmosphere. The average temperature will be hotter than any time during recorded history (hotter than it has been for 10000 years). You are compelled to act to decrease greenhouse gases in every way you can. You must. Thank you, Joanne Gross Web Area: Carbon Pollution
Standards188 From: K Y [cenonox@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 10:10 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Regulate CO2 emissions from coal-fired power plants!

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.189 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Dave Bolding Sr [dboldingsr@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:36 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 11/12/2013 - 21:36
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Dave Bolding Sr
Email: dboldingsr@yahoo.com
Comments: EPA Panel-

Climate Change is happening "weather" or not we want to accept the fact or not. Hurricanes Sandy and Hurricane Katrina are some prime examples of this on going fact. Then look at the damage from the Typhoon that has destroyed parts of the Philippines and Vietnam. We have a moral obligation to protect this land that has been afforded us. We can think by being in a house, work facility and vehicle that Climate Change wont affect us but we are naïve if we think in that manner. Just take a look at how many citizens are becoming exposed to cancer, asthma and other life threatening illnesses. Just think Your Panel has the Power to change history for generations to come. Just think of how many Elders, Kids, Individuals with weak immune systems. They are depending on Your Panel to Protect Their Health and The Environment. Your Agency has been provided a Power to Save Lives so from one Life to another if you don't mind please start saving "Lives"! It could be very well someone in your own family and or friend life in which you may save by "Protecting Humanity" and Not Caving To Industry Business as Usual! I hope you have a wonderful evening. Sincerely, Mr. Bolding Sr.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards190 From: dvdpttmn@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:35 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: EPA Listening Testimony

I was unable to attend in person the November 8,Chicago Illinois listening session but want to submit written testimony.

my name is David Pittman. I am a resident of West Peoria, Illinois. My home and family live within five miles of the E D Edwards coal powered energy plant, one of the oldest and most polluting coal power plants in Illinois. this plant has limited emissions stack scrubbers and a new owner, Dynegy, who has expressed a complete lack of interest in improving air quality emissions of this 50 year old facility. The air quality in my area will continue to be harmed indefinitely unless there is intervention by government agencies such as EPA.

There are bronchial dilator medical devices in my house, like the houses of nearly 40% of Americans. As a registered nurse and as a concerned husband I understand that the sudden onset of airway distress in my wife Teresa can be triggered by many things, including air pollution. Although there are many air polluters in my part of the world, the Toxic Release Inventory data for my area consistently ranks the coal powered energy plants as the biggest contributors to sulfur dioxide and carbon monoxide emissions. Sulfur dioxide emissions from sulfates that may precipitate as sufuric acid. My community's air quality is so bad that opacity violations are commonplace. It is a question of people's worsening health at eh expense of power company refusal to clean up their air emissions.

Water Pollution is also a problem for central Illinois coal power plants. The E D Edwards plant, for example, has a huge 90 acre coal ash pond on site that contains practically all of the coal ash generated in the past 50 years of operations. The same pond is used as a cooling water area with mil lions of gallons pumped into the nearby Illinois river every day. Carbon pollution standards should include the entire fuel cycle of carbon including safety requirements for coal ash and its eventual safe disposal. Current Illinois standards are neither enforced or measured for violations. There are no temperature measurements done, for example, to assess the efficacy of cooling water standards at the E D Edwards plant. Excess thermal discharge and heavy metals accumulating in the river silt should be evaluated but the Illinois Environmental Protection Agency has failed to obtain that data. Instead the Illlinois Pollution Control Board has historically always granted air quality variances allowing the power plant to continue witht he same old process, th e same high levels of pollution with the same complete lack of data to justify its decision. Surely the promises of the power plant operator that they will operate at required safety levels is insufficient proof.

Thank you for the opportunity to testify. David Pittman 2422 West Moss Avenue West Peoria, Illinois 61604. email dvdpttmn@ol.com

.191 From: Brittany Joshua [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:11 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, Brittany Joshua Chicago, Illinois

There are now 20 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.192 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Mike Stoolmiller [mike.stoolmiller@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:50 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 11/12/2013 - 20:49
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Mike Stoolmiller
Email: mike.stoolmiller@yahoo.com Comments: The confusion and disinformation campaign being waged by the fossil fuel industry, the Republican party and many other right wing groups is very sad. The scientific consensus is clear, humans are causing global warming, which will lead to more extreme weather and death and destruction that could have been avoided. I don't know how to design a program to reduce carbon pollution but I do know that we badly need a program that makes real changes. The rest of the world will follow if we have the courage and conviction to lead.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards193 From: Caitlin Will [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 8:30 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, Caitlin Will Poughkeepsie, New York

There are now 19 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.194 From: Karen Graf [grafks@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 7:43 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: My input



### I attended the listening session in Lenexa, KS, but did not speak.

B ut I would like to add my support to all those that spoke FOR strong controls on pollution. I agree with the voices I heard that are asking our government to keep fossil fuels in the ground - oil, gas, coal and encourage the knowledge capital of our country to seek alternative fuels, create new cleaner businesses.

If we can put a man on the moon, we can solve these problems. Now is the time to start reversing our use of
fossil fuels.

Karen Graf Overland Park, KS 66210195 From: Bigbillcutler@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 7:23 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Limits on powerplant emissions of greenhouse gases

The most stringent feasible limits on greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from stationary powerplants are necessary to forestall the worst of climate disruption due to human activity. Global consensus holds 2 deg C as the upper limit of tolerable global warming. At current rates of consuming fossil fuels, enough GHG will be emitted in about a decade and a half to drive global warming beyond that value. Therefore, immediate action to reduce GHG emissions is necessary in order to avoid the catastrophic effects that we would otherwise be forced to bear.

William H. Cutler 4114 Park Blvd. Palo Alto, CA 94306
650-493-8715 bigbillcutler@aol.com196 From: TimMary747@aol.com Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:02 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution Standards for existing power plants - comment

EPA:

I have very good reasons for asking you to please establish the strongest possible guidelines limiting carbon pollution. I am an asthmatic, and I have children. I know what air pollution does to me, and the trouble I have breathing here in the Chicago area. I am concerned about the long term effects on my children. And finally, I worry about how climate change will affect all of us. Please act!

Sincerely, Mary Mathews197 From: Dave Bordenkircher [dabordenkircher@mindspring.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 5:01 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: comments to carbon dioxide regulations.



### Dear EPA:

These are my comments to public hearing on carbon from coal power plants:

Require anything, especially power plants, that burn coal to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and other chemicals that increase global warming by trapping heat in the atmosphere. Take into consideration testimony from scientist like chemists, physicists and meteorologists.

Sincerely,
David Bordenkircher 500 Paragon Mills Rd.

G-6 Nashville, TN 37211

615.333.3377198 From: Sylvia De Rooy [oftheforest@att.net] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:35 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: stop the emissions

Power plants, particularly coal power plants, are rushing us into climate change at a
f rightening speed. Please do the job that you are supposed to do and put a stop to the dirty burning of coal among other things. Thank you, Sylvia De Rooy Eureka, CA199 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Caitlin Lundquist [clundqui@gmu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 4:06 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 11/12/2013 - 16:05
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Caitlin Lundquist
Email: clundqui@gmu.edu
Comments: For too long, the coal industry has been getting away with murder. They are blowing up mountains and destroying streams, causing our water to run dirty and making our air toxic, all without any regulation from the government. Thus far, the coal industry has been allowed to destroy Americans' homes and lives without penalties. We the people trust the government to ensure our land is safe to live in. By allowing carbon emissions to continue unregulated, fossil fue l industries threaten our living spaces while we bear the cost. Regulating emissions on carbon is a great first step, however, the proposed regulation is not stringent enough. Instead of the 100lb proposed limits on Natural Gas stations, the limit should be reduced by at least half to ensure the safety of the interested communities.

Thank you for your consideration, Caitlin Lundquist
GMU Student
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards200 From: Daniel Swid [da.swid@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 3:25 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I support strong CO2 regulations

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. Thank you!!

Sincerely,
Daniel Swid201 From: Jenny Kuan [jwkuan@stanford.edu] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:34 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Comment on carbon pollution and coal-fired power plants

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. --Jenny Kuan202 From: Cherie Walkowiak [cheriedj@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:06 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: limiting carbon emissions from existing power plant



### Dear EPA,

As you consider limiting carbon emissions from existing power plants, I urge you to set stringent regulations. It is time to transition to green energy.

As carbon emissions continue to increase to dangerous levels in the atmosphere, our planet is heating up. This is causing longer dry seasons, leading to increased draught and wildfire. It's also leading to the melting of arctic ice, weird weather patterns, super storms, and sea level rise.

We live with our two small children in Mountain View, CA, which is situated at the southernmost tip of the San Francisco Bay. Most of our city will be under water if the sea level rises even a few feet, as the climate scientists predict will happen with a 2 degree rise in global temperatures. Let's limit carbon emissions so that the global temperature never reaches that 2 degree rise.

This is an SOS. Our children's future lie in your hands. You have the power to change the course of history. Thank you for being bold and doing what it takes to make sure our planet continues to be habitable into the future. Please enact legislation that will put us on a path to limiting global warming to well below 2 degrees centigrade.

Thank you for all you do!!

Cherie Walkowiak of Mountain View, CA203 From: Nicole Kemeny [nicole.kemeny@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:14 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Coal-fired plant emissions



## D ear EPA, The single greatest contribution the EPA can make to the livability of our planet is to limit CO2 emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. These power plants are one of the major sources of CO2 emissions responsible for climate change. Climate change endageres the health, security and economic prosperity of all 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. I urge you to take action on behalf of my children, and all people.

Sincerely, Nicole Kemeny204 From: Terry Gamel [nsuterry@yahoo.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:07 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Public input on carbon emissions from power plants



### Hello,

Rather than simply signing a declaration of support, I thought I would add my personal thoughts about the reduced carbon emission requirements for power plants.

If the issue was put before a vote of the people, I would gladly vote in favor of the new requirements from the EPA.

However, I do not believe these requirements go remotely far enough. 17% will help, but it'll be a drop in the bucket. Let's shoot for 85%!

Thank you, Terry Gamel205 From: Mark Garcia [mbglife@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 1:00 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution Standards: Existing Power Plants

Dear EPA Representative:

I urge the EPA to immediately implement strong regulations limiting CO2 emissions from existing coal-fired power plants to levels limit global warming to no more than two degrees centigrade or less, as even 2 degrees will be devastating and destructive.

The coal industry pollutes for free. This madness must to stop. It impacts people's health and is destroying the ecological balance of the earth's climate system.

We already have cleaner sources of energy and the technology is improving exponentially. We need to transition to these immediately. Doing so will also protect our health, create economic growth and generate more jobs than there currently are in the entire coal industry.

Please make it a priority to quickly implement these regulations as time is running out to effectively address climate change.

Thank you,
Mark B. Garcia
20 Willow Rd. #25 Menlo Park, CA 94025206 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Emilia Jones [mj.emilia@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 12:40 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Tue, 11/12/2013 - 12:39
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Emilia Jones
Email: mj.emilia@gmail.com Comments: I stand with many of my fellow citizens in encouraging the EPA to act quickly to set strong limits on carbon pollution from existing power plants. A program that decreases the allowable amount of carbon pollution over several years will encourage power companies to either quickly decrease carbon emissions from existing power plants or phase out existing fossil fuel-fired power plants and transition towards clean energy.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards207 From: Lauren Zullo [lauren.zullo@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:33 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Contact Us Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website



### Dear EPA,

T hank you for all of the hard work you have done ove r the past several decades to keep our air and water clean. However, there is much work still to be done. As a young person and soon to be mother, I am gravely concerned about climate change. Increasing weather variability, stronger storms, and deeper droughts continue to threaten our planet’s future. And on a more personal level, pollution threatens the health of our nation’s children. The time for drastic action is now. Every year we delay, power plants spew more deadly pollution and emissions into the atmosphere and create an exponentially larger mess for our children to inherit. The U.S. must be a leader in curbing emissions, and I am hopeful that EPA will use every resource at its disposal to do so – starting with limiting carbon pollution from power plants.

T hank you.

La uren Zullo New York, NY

-- Lauren Zullo (703) 609-1800208 From: Casey Cameron [alt.caseyc@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:30 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Regulate and Limit CO2 emissions

To the EPA:

T he single most important action EPA can take to curb climate change is to regulate CO2 emissions from existing coal-fired power plants. Please take this important step to protect
our health!

Climate change threatens everyone. Personally threatening to me, my daughter and many of my friends live in geographical areas where climate change threatens to swamp the land with rising sea levels.

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.

Thank you for taking this important step!

Catherine Cameron San Jose, CA 95125209 From: Environmental Law and Policy Center [elpcinfo@elpc.org] on behalf of Cindi Martineau [cindimartineau@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:37 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's time for strong carbon standards

N ov 12, 2013

U.S. EPA

Dear EPA,

Thank you for conducting "listening sessions" across the country to allow citizens like myself to share our thoughts on the upcoming carbon pollution standards. I was pleased when President Obama announced his Climate Action Plan in June, and I hope U.S. EPA follows through with aggressive carbon pollution reduction standards that will make a difference in our fight against climate change.

We need strong standards for carbon pollution. Some might argue that we need to keep the economy going in a positive direction and stricter standards may not help that goal. To that I say that if we do not do all we can to block carbon from the atmosphere, there may not be an economy within several decades.

The most powerful motivator for me is my own children. I am appalled at the state of the earth they are inheriting. They will encounter severe challenges and I believe it is the moral duty of those serving now to stand up and do all they can to mitigate future disaster.

Sincerely,

Ms. Cindi Martineau 1125 Pennway Dr Lansing, MI 48910-4781210 From: Apar Patel [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 2:32 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, Apar Patel Manhattan Beach, California

There are now 18 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.211 From: Dick Guldi [rlguldi@tx.rr.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 10:28 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: I support stronger guidelines on coal fired power plants

I support stronger guidelines on coal fired power plants.

I was just backpacking in Big Bend National Park last weekend. After a rain, I saw the most wonderful blue sky imaginable. Then I recalled that the smog which obscures Big Bend has been traced largely to obsolete, coal-fired power plants in East Texas that should have been shut down years ago.

Texas has the worst five polluting coal plants in the entire USA, and each one produces far more pollution than the next worst polluter.

The State of Texas is so deeply controlled by fossil fuel interests that it won't shut down anything.

Only strong regulations from the EPA will make Texas cleaner and healthier.

Thank you, Richard Guldi,
7228 La Sobrina Dr Dallas, TX 75248212 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Lisa Marcus [lisa@emarcus.org] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 9:43 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 21:43
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Lisa Marcus
Email: lisa@emarcus.org
Comments: Thank you for holding these listening sessions, and reading our comments to find out how we feel about the issue. I am a health care provider, a mother, an outdoor enthusiast, and an activist working to avert the climate catastrophe toward which almost every climate scientist agrees we're rapidly heading. I am deeply concerned about the impacts of climate change and ocean acidification, as well as local impacts from pollutants on human health, our food chain, the environment, our ecosystems, and future generations.

Because CO2 in the atmosphere, ocean acidification, and global average temperature increase for decades, and remain for hundreds to thousands of years after we reduce emissions, we need to take note of what is already happening, and understand that we have to change course long before we see the full scope of the damage we have already caused. Each new study confirms and shows more effects than were predicted. This is because of feedback loops and previously unknown or unstudied sources (like methane being released from the ocean depths). Climate scientists predict that we are fast approaching a terrifying tipping point where mass extinction and the collapse of life as we know it will be inevitable. Please act quickly and decisively to assure that we don't reach it.

I urge you to do your part to address the climate and ocean acidification emergencies along with local health issues by placing the strongest possible restrictions on carbon and other green house gas emissions from existing coal plants (and all other sources like the new dangerous fracked gas, Tar Sands Oil, and Baken Shale Oil) and phasing them out of operation over the next few years. Please also include in your guidelines a strict moratorium on Nuclear Power generation, which not only produces greenhouse gas, but has proven to be extremely dangerous with long term implications we can't even begin to foresee. Existing power plants produce about a third of the greenhouse gas pollution in the US, so restricting and then virtually eliminating their emissions is vitally important. King county currently gets 30% of our electricity from coal. We get 20% from Colstrip, one of the dirtiest plants in the US. Coal causes all kinds of health problems from mine, through transport, to power plant. We simply cannot afford to ignore the impacts or the hidden price of these pollutants any longe r. Time has run out to make a slow transition off of these dangerous fuels. The cost to people not making a living off of the industry is by far greater every day it is in operation than the cost is to those who will have to find a new livelihood. Retraining and aid to those effected should be part of the guidelines, but we must not wait. The cost to all of us, to our children and grandchildren, and to all living things on earth, is far too high.

I urge you to make the strongest possible guidelines on emissions reductions from existing fossil fuel power plants (with a plan to shut them down completely by 2020), both coal and other fossil fuels including oil and natural gas' and substantial taxes on carbon pollution to pay for hidden costs that the public currently covers through our taxes, and suffers through degradation. On the demand side, please include guidelines with incentives for clean sustainable solutions like wind and solar; incentives for green building and appliances, and incentives and infrastructure for transportation alternatives including public, high efficiency, electric, and bike; large scale tree planting and stopping non-sustainable213 cutting of trees; and encouragement of local economies including local food growing and resource sharing in public spaces. IF we adopt them right away, strong restrictions on existing power plant emissions will reduce local health issues and costs, limit greenhouse gases, and accelerate the speed of transition to clean and sustainable sources of energy like solar, wind, tidal, and wave, making possible a livable and diversity filled planet for us, our kids, and future generations.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards214 From: susan_jack@juno.com Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:29 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: EPA Carbon Pollution Opinion



### Th e American Lung Association maintains that Texas ranks first in the US for contributing to global warming emissions, and first for power plant carbon and poisonous mercury emissions.

The air in the Dallas area does not meet the standards of the Clean Air Act. Indeed, a filthy shroud of air hangs low over our entire area, causing orange days and red days, especially in the summer. And Fort Worth has even experienced a Purple Day in recent years.

Even worse, a large cluster of these proposed plants are dangerously close to the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex. It will be impossible to live in our cities; many of us will have to move, simply in order to breathe. Some of us who were born in this area have never taken in a breath of fresh, clean air.

Even with strict regulations and new technology, coal fired power plants are filthy and pollute the air dangerously.

It might be argued that the plants will use “clean coal technology.” No one can convince me that there is such a thing as “clean coal technology.”

The most important consideration of all is that coal fired power plants will contribute to global warming . Global warming is bringing our Earth dangerously and precipitously close to the point of irreparable and irreversible damage. (Please see the movie, The Inconvenient Truth .)

I urge you to stop this process before it goes any farther and instead consider solar and wind power as viable sources of alternative energy.

Jack Cooper

1116 Greencove Lane

Richardson TX 75081-3715215 

### (972) 238-8653

s.t.cooper@juno.com216 From: susan_jack@juno.com Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:24 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: EPA Listening Session -- Written Comment



## I HAVE BRONCHIECTASIS AND GET FREQUENT BRONCHITIS, WITH FREQUENT S HORTNESS OF BREATH. I AM CONVINCED THAT AIR POLLUTION AND GLOBAL WARMING ARE EXACERBATING MY RESPIRATORY AFFLICTION.

COAL IS AMONG THE DIRTIEST OF FUELS, AND ITS PRODUCTION IS A S MOKESTACK INDUSTRY THAT BELCHES POLLUTION CARRYING TOXIC CHEMICALS FAR BEYOND ITS IMMEDIATE AREA INTO FAR- FLUNG COUNTIES AND CARRIED BY THE WINDS INTO NEIGHBORING STATES.

WE LIVE IN TEXAS WITH THE WEAKEST POLLUTION CONTROLS IN THE UNITED S TATES AND A HIGH CONCENTRATION OF SUB-STANDARD COAL PLANTS.

THE COAL INDUSTRY IS NOTORIOUS FOR OPERATING FOR PROFIT WITHOUT T HE LEAST CONSIDERATION FOR HUMAN WELFARE.

THEY ARE SO CALLOUS ABOUT POISONING OUR PRECIOUS RESOURCES.

HUMAN HEALTH SHOULD BE CONSIDERED THE FOREMOST PRIORITY.

THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS STATES: NO SINGLE SOLUTION CAN MEET OUR SOCIETY'S FUTURE ENERGY NEEDS. THE ANSWER LIES INSTEAD IN A FAMILY OF DIVERSE ENERGY TECHNOLOGIES THAT SHARE A COMMON THREAD: THEY DO NOT DEPLETE OUR NATURAL RESOURCES OR DESTROY OUR ENVIRONMENT.

THEN WHAT DO WE WANT?217

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## ENERGY DERIVED FROM CLEAN AND RENEWABLE SOURCES – SOLAR POWER AND WIND POWER.

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## HOMES AND COMMERCIAL BUILDINGS TO BE BUILT OR AFFORDABLY RETROFITTED TO USE SOLAR AND WIND POWER.

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## CLEAN AIR AND BLUE SKIES.

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## WE WANT TO CURB GLOBAL WARMING BEFORE WE REACH THE POINT OF IRREPARABILITY. NOW – THIS YEAR!

I IMPLORE YOU TO UPHOLD THE HIGHEST STANDARDS FOR ALL COAL-FIRED POWER PLANTS AND TO ENFORCE LARGE AND MEANINGFUL PENALTIES FOR INFRACTIONS.

EXISTING POWER PLANTS SHOULD BE HELD TO THE SAME HIGH STANDARDS. IF THEY CANNOT OR WILL NOT COMPLY, THEY SHOULD BE CLOSED.

ACTUALLY, THERE IS NO SUCH THING AS CLEAN COAL. SO I STRONGLY PREFER THAT COAL BE PHASED OUT QUICKLY AS A SOURCE OF ENERGY AND THAT SOLAR, WIND AND HYDROELECTRIC SOURCES OF ENERGY TO BE PHASED IN WITHIN THE NEXT YEAR OR SO AS CLEAN, RENEWABLE ENERGY SOURCES.

OUR CREATOR GAVE US THIS PLANET EARTH, OUR ONLY HOME. WE ARE OBLIGATED TO NURTURE IT AND CARE FOR IT.

THE NAME OF YOUR DEPARTMENT, ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY, COMMITS YOU TO PROTECT OUR ENVIRONMENT FROM THOSE WHO WOULD DESTROY IT.218 

## WE ARE COUNTING ON YOU. YOU ARE OUR LAST HOPE!

THANK YOU.

Susan Turitz Cooper

1116 Greencove Lane

Richardson TX 75081-3715

972 238-8653

susan_jack@juno.com219 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Paul Atelsek [paul.atelsek@verizon.net] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 7:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 19:21
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Paul Atelsek
Email: paul.atelsek@verizon.net Comments: EPA should use the power that the US Supreme Court found that it had, and section 111 of the Clean Air Act, to regulate carbon emissions. Public servants, it's your moral responsibility to your kids and mine to do what you know is the right thing for future generations. I know how this works, but don't let political considerations hinder you any more than absolutely necessary. Your job is to act based on science, not politics.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards220 From: Edward Laurson [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 4:51 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, Edward Laurson Denver, Colorado

There are now 17 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.221 From: Andrew Clarke [aclarke5@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 3:48 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution Citizen Comments

Hello,

I have some comments on the issue of carbon pollution standards for existing (and new) power plants.

I am an unpaid volunteer with the Sierra Club, but I am also speaking for myself here.

I have a Ph.D. in Materials Science and have been following the issue of climate change for nearly 25 years. Back in the 1980s and even into the 1990s, it was hard to tell if climate change was really as dire as many people made it out to be. But over the past 10- 15 years, it has become obvious to any rational person that not only is climate change real, but that the scientists actually got it wrong. It is happening much faster than they predicted, and it is accelerating. This year we reached 400 parts per million of CO2 in the atmosphere. We are increasing CO2 in the atmosphere at a rate of about 2 PPM, and that could increase at some point. Within 25 years we will reach 450 PPM, and within 50 years we will be over 500 PPM.

Scientists agree that at some point the climate could go unstable. We could be less than 50 years from that point. My 13 year old nephew will be 63. What kind of a world will he face? Will the United States become a dustbowl? Will we have any winter at all? Will forest fires and violent storms and insect outbreaks be the norm in 50 years? Will we be able to grow enough food to feed our own country? It is frightening to even think of such things, but the fact is these are becoming more and likely every day we waste by not addressing carbon pollution.

I urge the EPA to take the lead on this issue. Please design, implement, and enforce tough rules on carbon pollution. You cannot solve the problem with one ruling, but you can set the tone for the future. And while coal is the most obvious problem right now, natural gas and oil are also major sources. These will have to be included soon, even if not right now.

Thank you for listening.

Andrew Clarke Chicago, IL 60601222 From: Neil McQueen [svtranquilo@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:59 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Support Carbon Regulation



### I'm not able to make the listening session in Dallas this week, so would like to submit some short comments:

I strongly support the EPA's efforts to establish a new regulation for carbon generated by coal-fired power

p lants. With all respect to Texas Railroad Commissioner Craddick's forum piece in today's Corpus Christi Caller Times ( http://www.caller.com/news/2013/nov/07/forum-epa-coal -policy-needs-texans-input/ ) I am very concerned about climate change and believe that now is the time to act. As a Gulf Coast resident, I think about the impact of sea level rise and consider what my boys will have to deal with in the next 50 - 75 years.

In addition to the carbon issue, there are the issues of mercury pollution, particulate matter and coal ash. More than 10 Texas waterways are listed as impaired under the Clean Water Act due to unacceptable mercury levels. This is inexcusable in a state with so many fishermen. Last month, the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) issued a report stating that particulate matter is a leading environmental cause of cancer deaths ( www.iarc.fr/en/media-centre/iarcnews/pdf/pr221_E.pdf ). The 13 coal fired power plants in Texas put out thousands of tons of soot each year. Lastly, spills of coal ash like that which happened in Tennessee can pollute waters and wreak havoc on the lives of people living near power plants.

Texas already leads the nation in wind energy and, if state politicians would support it, could be a major

g enerator of solar photovoltaic electricity. We need to move beyond dirty fossil fuels for electrical power generation.

Neil McQueen 4213 Estate Dr. Corpus Christi, TX 78412223 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Mary Lehmann [mary.lehmann1@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:33 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 14:33
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Mary Lehmann
Email: mary.lehmann1@gmail.com Comments: You have already been advised by climate scientists to set a goal of maximum limit of 350 ppm concentration of CO2. If you can't clean up coal- fired power plants to reach this
maximum allo wable, you will have to start fining them out of existence for noncompliance over time. However it is my understanding that the political will is not there, since the government is subsidizing the fossil fuel industry, which the public will see as making a farce out of the search for commentaries about cleaning coal-fired power plants, especially as no way has been found to clean them.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards224 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Shelly Leitheiser [shelly.leit@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:32 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 14:32
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Shelly Leitheiser
Email: shelly.leit@gmail.com Comments: Who chooses the locations for the coal listening sessions? I live in Minnesota and there are no listening sessions near me, yet I live near a HORRIBLE COAL fired power plant that pollutes our air and water on a daily basis. Who is going to listen to us? We have lots of bad quality air days because of this plant, which is in Becker. It's adding to global warming. It's filthy and no one from the EPA even cares? Come on. We expect more from our government. The plant is called SHERCO. Can we have a listening session in Central Minnesota for this polluter??? http://www.startribune.com/business/228667541.html
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards225 From: Sam Koufman [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 2:23 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, Sam Koufman Manchester, Massachusetts

There are now 16 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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Internet.226 From: annie@nwpassage.com on behalf of Annie Aggens [annie@polarexplorers.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:45 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: To the North Pole in support of strict EPA carbon regulations



### Dear EPA,

A s you can see from my signature below I have a very unique profession- I organize and guide expeditions to the North Pole and South Poles. From my home base in Wilmette, IL I organize an annual migration of explorers to the top and bottom of the world to participate in ski and dogsled expeditions. Since our first expedition to the North Pole in 1993 we have seen a dramatic change in sea ice conditions. Our first expeditions in 1993 and 1995 (which were approximately 18 days each) ocrrurred entirely in the month of May. Now we need to be completely off the ice by April 22 or no pilots will come pick us up! This is a big change in a very short amount of time. We are not scientists but we don't need advanced degrees in science or policy to observe, with our own eyes, the sudden and irrevocable changes taking place in the Arctic.

What does this have to do with limiting carbon pollution in Illinois and elsewhere in the USA? Everything. The Arctic is changing not because of industry in the Arctic. It is changing because of high levels of carbon pollution generated in cities, states and regions in the rest of the world. I love my profession and I love the Arctic. On behalf of all explorers the world over, and all future generations of explorers who deserve a healthy planet which they can discover, I charge you to impost strict regulations limiting the carbon pollution from power plants in Illinois and elsewhere in the nation.

Thank you, and may God bless America (and the Arctic) and may YOU help him!

-- Annie Aggens PolarExplorers Phone: +1-847-256-4409
Fax: +1-847-256-4476 www.polarexplorers.com annie@polarexplorers.com www.facebook.com/polarexplorers Twitter: @polarexplorers Skype: polarexplorers

Celebrating 21 Years of Polar Expeditions

" One of the top 100 Outfitters on Earth" - National Geographic "50 Tours of a Lifetime" - National Geographic "Rough Guide recommended" "Best Skiing Blog" -Tripbase travel blog awards227 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Robert C. Stephens [robert_stephens45@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:32 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 12:32
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Robert C. Stephens
Email: robert_stephens45@hotmail.com
Comments: Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495 I am submitting these comments in support of the EPA issuing strong regulations limiting carbon emissions from existing power plants. Robert Stephens, Chicago IL 60657

CARBON EMISSIONS ARE DESTROYING MUCH OF OUR OCEAN LIFE (Source: Chicago Tribune, October 21 and November 4, 2013 reprinted from the Seattle Times)

Carbon emissions from existing power plants and other sources are killing many life forms in our oceans. This die off will only increase in the future until we greatly reduce our carbon emissions through stronger emission controls on carbon energy sources and increase the use of clean energy sources such as wind, solar, hydroelectric, and geothermal. As highlighted in several articles from the Seattle Times reprinted recently in the Chicago Tribune, the increased carbon dioxide in our atmosphere from power plants using carbon based fuels, especially coal, and from vehicles and other sources n ot only is changing our atmosphere. It is changing our oceans. One fourth of the carbon dioxide is dissolving in our oceans, making ocean water much more acidic. The Seattle Times interviewed 150 experts and people most likely to be affected by the loss of sea life and found that ocean chemistry is changing faster than at any time in human history due to dissolved CO2 in the oceans waters Billions of oysters along the Washington State coast and nearby hatcheries have died due to the acidic water resulting from carbon dioxide pollution dissolving in the ocean’s water. Experts have found that one reason for the die off of sea life is that when carbon dioxide mixes with the sea water, it takes on a corrosive power that erodes some animals’
shells or skeleto ns. It also robs the water of ingredients animals use to grow shells in the first place. In an experiment conducted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, baby Alaskan King Crabs were exposed to CO2 levels expected by mid-century. The young crabs died at twice the rate that the same type crabs did that were raised in normal sea water. The carbon dioxide lowers the water’s pH level and alters the availability of carbonate ions which the crabs rely on to grow their shell and exoskeletons. Other experiments have shown that high levels of carbon dioxide in sea water alter ability to smell in some fish, an important sense that helps those fish avoid predators. In a precursor of what could be coming, experts have observed devastated coral reefs near
carbon dioxide vents on the sea floor. The loss of the coral kills off small fish that feed on the coral, which in turn kills off large fish that feed on the small fish. This endangers the supply of fish for human consumption. Fish are the source for one-sixth of the animal protein that humans consume. Climate change driven by carbon emissions is not only changing our atmosphere and weather. It is also changing our oceans by warming its temperatures and228 through increased acidity caused by increased carbon dioxide dissolving in the ocean. We can’t let a vital resource like the ocean be degraded and must take strong action to reduce carbon emissions from existing power plants and other sources. Thank you.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards229 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Kathy Seal [Kathyseal@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 12:19 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Mon, 11/11/2013 - 12:19
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Kathy Seal
Email: Kathyseal@gmail.com
Comments: We have an obligation to protect our children and future generations from the effects of climate change by addressing its causes and impacts -- including carbon pollution from power plants.

In the U.S., power plants account for 40% of the carbon pollution that causes climate change. While we currently protect public health with limits on arsenic, lead, mercury, soot and other pollution from power plants, there are no existing national limits on carbon pollution. That must change.

Please propose a strong carbon pollution standard for existing power plants, to protect public health and oppose climate change, because we have a moral obligation to our children and future generations to do so.

Thank you for all you do to protect our health and our planet.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards230 From: Chad Boomgaarden [boomgaarden@boomarch.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 11:18 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Limit Carbon Pollution



### The EPA h osted listening sessions in Chicago last Friday to g auge support for taking action to limit carbon pollution from power plants. Those of us who were at the hearing got to hear dozen s and dozens of pro-coal advocates advising the EPA NOT to pass stricter regulations. I disagree, and would like stricter regulations to be PASSED. Please take this under consideration when you vote. Regards,

Chad Boomgaarden, AIA

P rincipal

Boomgaarden Architects
1315 Central Avenue Wilmette, Illinois 60091
847.226.3230 tel
847.256.3837 fax

www.boomarch.com231 From: Sarah Hidder [sarah.hidder@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 11:03 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Limit carbon pollution from power plants



### I was unable to attend the listening session last Friday, but I would like to voice my feelings that the EPA

s hould take action to limit carbon pollution from power plants throughout the nation. Global climate change is the single biggest threat facing the health and longevity of the human race, and carbon emissions are one of the greatest contributors to climate change that we know of. We have the knowledge and the power to limit climate emissions from power plants, and I say that we must put this power into action.

-- Sarah Hidder (847) 924-8064232 From: Shirley Young [shirleywyoung@yahoo.com] Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 10:26 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: EPA hearings in Chicago

Dear EPA:
M y name is Shirley Weese Young. Your name is Environmental Protection Agency. I am one person. You are many. Your job is to protect me and ensure that I have clean air to breathe and clean water to
drink. I understand the democratic process, including transparency, for these hearings. At the same time I think it is insane that I have to ask you to protect the two things that support life. The fossil fuel industry should never trump life on earth. Please do your job and remember who it is you are protecting. Thank you.233 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of shari [shariwilkinson@att.net] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 9:54 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sun, 11/10/2013 - 21:53
S ubmitted values are:

Name: shari
Email: shariwilkinson@att.net Comments: stop carbon pollution
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards234 From: Mary and Brad [stellabl@pacbell.net] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 9:04 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Contact Us Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website



### Dear EPA:

I ask you to finalize strong carbon standards that r e duce carbon pollution from new and existing power plants. Carbon pollution standards are a significant next step in tackling climate change and protecting our air, health, and economy.

Please also consider the critical role that renewable energy can play in moving from fossil fuel- based energy to a low-carbon energy future. A natural gas-dominated electricity system poses significant climate, economic, and public health risks.

In 1974, when the EPA was young and Nixon was president, I visited Congress, where the bill on the floor

con cerned strengthening requirements for seatbelts in new cars, to include 3-point front seatbelts. The auto industry objected on the grounds of higher costs to consumers. Now, nearly 40 years later, we all take seatbelts for granted in new cars, and seatbelts are estimated to save over 10,000 lives a year in the US. I hope in another 40 years we will take for granted that power plants operate in an environmentally friendly fashion, and you at the EPA will be able to look back with pride at your decision to make that possible.

Just FYI, I attended your public input session in San Fra ncisco on November 5 th 

### , but was not able to stay long

e nough to give my comments in person.

Thank you for your work!

Mary Linton235 From: Kris Billmaier [krisbillmaier@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 9:01 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Stop burning coal

We need strong protection from carbon pollution. Stop burning coal now. Plant trees, conserve energy, and invest in clean energy instead. To protect life as we know it, demand the strongest plan to end burning all fossil fuels by 2035 at the very latest.

Kris Billmaier236 From: mcniff.erin@gmail.com Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 8:23 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Stop burning coal

We need strong protection from carbon pollution. Stop burning coal now. Plant trees, conserve energy, and invest in clean energy instead. To protect life as we know it, demand the strongest plan to end burning all fossil fuels by 2035 at the very latest.237 From: Brad Griffith [braddgriffith@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 8:12 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: EPA Protection

We need strong protection from carbon pollution. Stop burning coal now. Plant trees, conserve energy, and invest in clean energy instead. To protect life as we know it, demand the strongest plan to end burning all fossil fuels by 2035 at the very latest.

Thanks,

Brad238 From: Environmental Law and Policy Center [elpcinfo@elpc.org] on behalf of Nichole Benincase [nmb0701@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 8:02 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's time for strong carbon standards

N ov 10, 2013

U.S. EPA

Dear EPA,

Thank you for conducting "listening sessions" across the country to allow citizens like myself to share our thoughts on the upcoming carbon pollution standards. I was pleased when President Obama announced his Climate Action Plan in June, and I hope U.S. EPA follows through with aggressive carbon pollution reduction standards that will make a difference in our fight against climate change.

This is especially important in the Midwest, where we have a large concentration of old, dirty coal power plants that produce a lot of air pollution that contributes to our climate change problems and that affects our health.

Climate change impacts are already starting to hurt people in the Midwest. More days of extreme heat are hard in old cities like Chicago, where lots of folks have asthma and other respiratory issues and where lots of folks don't have access to air conditioning. It's also very hard on Midwestern farmers, who deal with droughts one year and floods the next -- and that, in turn, can affect food prices for everyone.

This is hurting our health and hurting our pocketbooks. And it's only going to get worse unless we do something about it. That's why I hope the U.S. EPA designs STRONG standards to curb carbon pollution.

Sincerely,

Miss Nichole Benincase 740 Morningstar Dr Ellwood City, PA 16117-3019239 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Jennifer Byer [jen.byer@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 7:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sun, 11/10/2013 - 19:21
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Jennifer Byer
Email: jen.byer@gmail.com
Comments: What is the deadline date for submission of comments? End of November?
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards240 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Kathy Clarke [kathysadr@yahoo.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 5:48 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sun, 11/10/2013 - 17:48
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Kathy Clarke
Email: kathysadr@yahoo.com Comments: PLEASE design and implement a plan to reduce use of fossil fuels in power plants, to reduce emissions by private and commercial vehicles, and to reduce emissions by ships and trains as well as in industrial sources. Only by using a multifaceted approach can we create meaningful change to avoid the catastrophic effects of climate change. Do not allow corporate power through corruption to be a barrier to rapid, decisive and far- reaching action needed to protect our future interests. We are far behind the rest of the developed world in creating and implementing an action plan, which should focus on developing widesprea d use of renewable resources such as wind and solar power.
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards241 From: Tom Wallace [tomwallace1@sbcglobal.net] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 4:43 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Polution



### It is SO essential that we drastically reduce the man made carbon pollution we are dumping the environment. Tons upon tons.

How can any rationally mature person ignore the present as well as the overwhelming costs of this needless destruction of this planet upon which we all live.

I want for this to have an immediate stop, so I urge you to come from your heart in addressing the multitude of ways we can accomplish this turn around in carbon pollution.

Coal has NO business in this equasion and MUST be eliminated.

Sincerely,

Tom Wallace242 From: James Mulcare [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 4:16 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, James Mulcare Clarkston, Washington

There are now 15 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

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auto matic download of this picture from the
Internet.243 From: Britt Billmaier [britt.billmaier@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 4:04 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution



### We need strong protection from carbon pollution. Stop burning coal now. Plant trees, conserve

e nergy, and invest in clean energy instead. To protect life as we know it, demand the strongest plan to end burning all fossil fuels by 2035 at the very latest.

Thank you, Britt Billmaier244 From: Mike Arney [iammike2350@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 3:38 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Please pass strong carbon pollution standards!



### Hello EPA,

M y wife was at the EPA listening session on reducing carbon from power plants. She testified, but I had to work. Here are my thoughts:

We need to cut our carbon pollution really fast and really soon. According to climate scientist Kevin Anderson of England's Tyndall Center, rich nations like ours need to be reducing our carbon emissions by 10% per year within a few years, just to hit the internationally agreed target of 2 degrees warming.

The Clean Air Act was not designed to mitigate global warming. I'd rather see a really strong and rising carbon tax than EPA regulations.

But regulations are what we have, indeed what the Supreme Court has said the EPA is required to promulgate. So promulgate away! Power plants are around a long time -- make regulations that will still make sense 20 years from now. That means, make regulations that prevent new coal power without CSS, that account fully for the methane leakage as well as carbon emissions from natural gas, and that appropriately penalize any power source that creates carbon pollution.

I appreciate the clamor to maintain the status quo that you need to deal with. But please stick to your guns and hear the clamor from the future, from the children being born in Bangladesh who will be flooded out from rising seas, from the incredulous voices of future people who will look at what we are doing now and ask, "What were they thinking?"

Thank you for standing strong for a livable planet.

Michael Arney
1447 Saint Charles St Wauwatosa, WI 53213245 From: claire gomez [mail@changemail.org] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 3:18 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, claire gomez westchester, Illinois

There are now 14 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-emissio ns-from-existing-powerplants/responses/new?response=1e2ea64ba3d0

Right-click here to download pictures. To help protect your privacy, Outlo ok prevented
auto matic download of this picture from the
Internet.246 From: Terri Siddons [terrisiddons@earthlink.net] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 2:45 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495 & RE: EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0009

Air and Radiation Docket and Information Center, Environmental Protection Agency, Mail Code: 2822T, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW, Washington, DC, 20460

carbonpollutioninput@epa.gov

Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0495 & RE: EPA-R09-OAR-2013-0009

Dear EPA,

My name is Terri Siddons. I have lived in Arizona since 1953, and I am concerned about the EPA’s proposed rules regarding carbon regulations in areas surrounding the Navajo Generating Station in northern Arizona, and other coal fired power plants in Arizona.

The Clean Air Act gives both EPA and states a role in reducing air pollution from power plants that are already in operation. The law directs EPA to establish guidelines, which states use to design their own programs to reduce emissions.

We object to the Carbon regulation proposed for existing coal fired power plant that does not take into account the costs involved in different geographies.

AZ has no oil wells to pump CO2 into which makes it unfeasible in the state.

AZ has no natural gas supplies and new carbon regulations that force the replacement of coal with Natural Gas plants only work in states that have Natural Gas. AZ has no such option.

The States implementation plan is the best solution for long term transition to less carbon, and the 10 th Amendment

r equires the EPA to use the State Plan in these regulations.

We are opposed to the stacking of regulations on power plants that force them to close, switch to Natural Gas or join a Carbon CAP and TAX marketplace like the one in California or REGI.

Because the EPA's proposed rules are unworkable on several levels at NGS, we urge the EPA to adopt the TWG BART Proposal as the final rule for NGS. We also urge the EPA to give exclusions to the rules that damage tribal and state economies. We have no Gas no Oil no choice in AZ.

Sincerely,

Terri Siddons

Taxpayer from AZ247 From: james billmaier [james@cityguru.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 2:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Carbon Pollution from Existing Power Plants

We need strong protection from carbon pollution. Stop burning coal NOW. Plant trees, conserve energy, and invest in clean energy instead. To protect life as we know it, demand the strongest plan to end burning all fossil fuels by 2035 at the very latest.

James Billmaier248 From: Beth Drucker [bstolley@aol.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 2:22 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Pro regulation comments



### I strongly urge the EPA to impose stricter regulations on carbon pollution.

M y father railed against ever increasing EPA clean water standards while his company, Hammermill Paper Company, continued to pollute Lake Erie in the 1970's . At the age of 80, he admitted that the paper industry would NEVER have cleaned up its act without the EPA regulations. The EPA serves a critical role in the fight against carbon pollution today. Please help protect the environment for future generations.

This is the quote you should might want to use to justify your actions:



# You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by

e vading it today.

Abraham Lincoln

Thanks to all of you at the EPA for working on behalf of all Americans under very challenging circumstances.



### Beth Drucker
President
Go Green Wilmette249 From: michelle billmaier [michellebillmaier@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 2:07 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Please put a stop to Carbon Pollution from Power plants

Please limit or, even better, eliminate carbon emissions from existing power plant in the USA. We need to clean up our polluted world...let's start here! Global warming is the biggest problem of our day. At 400 parts per million and rising, we need to reverse this catastrophic trend we're on...for our lives and those of our children.

Stop dirty power plants in the USA! Thank you, Michelle Billmaier250 From: C E [crystal.elinski@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:59 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Re: deadline was Friday, but maybe they'll take more over the weekend...

I had RSVP'd for the Seattle listening sessions but was unable to make it. Could you consider my comments for the Friday deadline?

I am very interested in following the EPA development on carbon guidelines-- if you could add me to an email list, I will also give input on the proposal later.

For now, I just want to commend the EPA on the relatively tight reign they've considered when it comes to Mercury pollution and I'd like to see the same sorts of standards applied to Carbon. I realise there has been a backlash by industry, but the public is definitely behind it. Also "cost-effective" should include the damage to the environment and public health, as if (as they should) the polluters paid insurance and fees on the whole impact of their industry. Most small businesses have to take into consideration the Large and Long view. "Cost-effective" should in no way disregard ethics.

Crystal Elinski
POB8973PDX97207OR



### O n Sun, Nov 10, 2013 at 10:32 AM, April Burris < peacefulpresence@gmail.com > wrote:

http://www2.epa.gov/carbon-pollution-standards/public -listening-sessions



# Carbon Pollution Standards

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### Contact Us



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# Public Listening Sessions

Listening Sessions Postponed

Because of the government shutdown, EPA has postponed two public listening sessions on its carbon pollution

s tandards that were scheduled for October 15 in Boston, MA, and October 18 in Philadelphia, PA. We will reschedule these sessions when the government reopens; please check this page then for updates.

EPA will hold 11 public listening sessions across the country to solicit ideas and input from the public and stakeholders about the best Clean Air Act approaches to reducing carbon pollution from existing power plants.

The Clean Air Act gives both EPA and states a role in reducing air pollution from power plants that are already in operation. The law directs EPA to establish guidelines, which states use to design their own programs to reduce emissions. Before proposing guidelines, EPA must consider how power plants with a variety of different configurations would be able to reduce carbon pollution in a cost-effective way.251 

### The feedback from these 11 public listening sessions will play an important role in helping EPA develop smart, cost-effective guidelines that reflect the latest and best information available. The agency will seek additional public input during the notice and comment period once it issues a proposal by June 2014.

Below please find a list of listening sessions offered around the country and a point of contact for each if you have any questions. You may sign up for one or more sessions. Registration is highly encouraged due to large expected turn outs. If you are unable to attend one of these listening sessions, EPA is accepting input through
the Contact Us page or at carbonpollutioninput@epa.gov until November 8, 2013.

- - april burris

peacefulpresence@gmail.com
503-231-0601

-- Crystal Elinski
POB 8973 Portland, OR 97207
503/821.7473

"We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding creates love, love creates patience, and patience creates unity."
— Malcolm X252 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Brian Anderson [co2.350@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 1:33 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sun, 11/10/2013 - 13:32
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Brian Anderson
Email: co2.350@gmail.com
Comments: I am a member of a group called Coal Free Bainbridge. The many people who support us want you to find a way to convince or force Puget Sound Energy to phase out the use of coal for the electricity they generate.

The only coal plant in Washington State, the one in Centralia, is scheduled to begin closing in 2020. Closing down this coal plant is real progress but we need to deal with the other major source of coal fired power for our state, Puget Sound Energy's coal plant in Montana. PSE provides electricity to over 1 million customers in WA State and 30% of that power comes from coal. This plant is the second largest emitter of co2 in the western US.

You may think that it will cost a lot of money to replace the 30% of PSE' power that comes from coal but by PSE's own estimate the power generated by the Colstrip plant can be replaced with only a 5 percent increase in electricity rates.

And the only reason that PSE can charge less for their coal fired power is that they are not playing the true cost of burning coal. They don't pay the cost to clean up the ground water they pollute. They don't pay the cost to remove the mercury from the fish we eat. They don't pay the medical bills of the people who get sick from arsenic, soot, and other pollutants, some of whom even die. And they pay no price for the millions of tons of carbon that their plant spew's into the atmosphere every year that contributes to global warming.

PSE just submitted their plan for generating electricity for the next 20 years. Unfortunately their plan assumes that they will continue to generate electricity from this dirty old coal plant for the next 20 years. It is clear that PSE is not going to change its coal burning ways without public pressure and action from government agencies like the EPA. It’s clear to many of us that PSE needs to stop using coal to generate electricity and switch to alternative forms of energy. Please find a way to do this. Please set the pollution limits for exiting coal plants high enough that they will need to be pha sed out over time. Its our best hope of staving off catastrophic global warming. This is a moral issue. You must act and take effective, decisive action.

Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards253 From: Environmental Law and Policy Center [elpcinfo@elpc.org] on behalf of Alisa Megit [nabu1998 @aol.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 9:31 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: It's time for strong carbon standards

N ov 10, 2013

U.S. EPA

Dear EPA,

Thank you for conducting "listening sessions" across the country to allow citizens like myself to share our thoughts on the upcoming carbon pollution standards. I was pleased when President Obama announced his Climate Action Plan in June, and I hope U.S. EPA follows through with aggressive carbon pollution reduction standards that will make a difference in our fight against climate change.

This is especially important in the Midwest, where we have a large concentration of old, dirty coal power plants that produce a lot of air pollution that contributes to our climate change problems and that affects our health.

Climate change impacts are already starting to hurt people in the Midwest. More days of extreme heat are hard in old cities like Chicago, where lots of folks have asthma and other respiratory issues and where lots of folks don't have access to air conditioning. It's also very hard on Midwestern farmers, who deal with droughts one year and floods the next -- and that, in turn, can affect food prices for everyone.

This is hurting our health and hurting our pocketbooks. And it's only going to get worse unless we do something about it. That's why I hope the U.S. EPA designs STRONG standards to curb carbon pollution.

Sincerely,

Ms. Alisa Megit Newport Iowa city, IA 52240254 From: drupal_admin@epa.gov on behalf of Steve Drake [steve.drake@yandex.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 7:22 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Webform Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Submitted on Sun, 11/10/2013 - 07:21
S ubmitted values are:

Name: Steve Drake
Email: steve.drake@yandex.com
Comments: Hello, I believe that the US EPA should take responsible action toward curbing carbon pollution by putting tighter regulations on existing power plants. If coal plants cannot meet those new standards, they will have to find ways to adapt. There is simply no excuse for delaying this action any longer. Thank you,
Steve Drake
Web Area: Carbon Pollution Standards255 From: Hig [hig314@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 3:52 AM To: Carbon Pollution Input Cc: Erin Mckittrick; Andrew Mattox Subject: Bring climate impact into permitting processes



### My hope is that classifying CO2 as a pollutant will help bring climate impacts into the permitting process.

I live in Alaska, and fossil fuel development is a big part of our economy. The benefits of this development are central to our political reality. Those benefits are real. High paying fossil fuel jobs help many in Alaska live happy lives, taxes from those jobs run our government, and natural gas provides much of our electricity.

However, the climate impact of fossil fuel extraction has been nearly absent from the public conversation. State bureaucracies responsible for ensuring beneficial industrial development usually completely neglect climate impacts as part of their analysis.

I think it is critical that we confront the climate consequences when making decisions about fossil fuel development in Alaska. These consequences are likely to include the displacement of many villages in the north and west of the state, and dramatic declines in salmon and other key commercial, subsistence, and sport fisheries. Further fossil fuel development in Alaska exacerbates these looming crises.

Because the new EPA regulations apply only to power plants, they will not directly address many areas where the consequences of fossil fuel development could be better illuminated. However, I hope it will bring the conversation more out into the open - so we can begin to consider climate impact more broadly in decisions about industrial development.

Sincerely,

Hig (Bretwood Higman, PhD) hig314@gmail.com Ground Truth Trekking ( www.groundtruthtrekking.org )256 From: Fran Ludwig [fludwig12@yahoo.com] Sent: Saturday, November 09, 2013 10:12 PM To: Carbon Pollution Input Subject: Contact Us Comment: Carbon Pollution Standards Website

Nov. 4, 2013

Remarks from Lexington Global Warming Action Coalition in regard to EPA's plan to issue rules on carbon pollution from existing power plants.

I represent the citizen led Lexington MA Global Warming Action Coalition. Our organization educates and raises awareness about climate change and its impacts. We promote actions that reduce greenhouse gas emissions and safeguard the health of our planet.

And that is why we are here today, to ask the EPA to fulfill its legal obligation to issue rules that will rapidly reduce carbon dioxide emissions from existing power plants.

We are experiencing the effects of climate change today – right here in Massachusetts, in the form of extreme storms – five once in a 100 year storms in the last 3 years. We’ve been affected by extreme flooding for two weeks in the spring of 2010, Hurricane Irene which devastated the region, closely followed by the Snow October storm that knocked out electric power for 700,000 Massachusetts homes and cancelled Halloween, Hurricane Sandy and finally, Nemo or the Blizzard of 2013.

And we know from the most recent IPCC report that humans are the main cause of global warming, with 95% certainty.

According to the US EIA (Energy Information Administration), existing power plants produce 39% of total US energy related CO 2 emissions – more CO 2 emissions than from any other source.

But we know we have viable options for a cleaner future. Our state’s largest utilities recently signed long-term contracts to purchase 565 Megawatts of wind power at prices below the cost of power from coal and nuclear plants, lowering our utility bills.In addition, the success of the RGGI program in ourregion provides evidence of the economic benefits of a transition to cleaner power sources. These actions in combination with successful energy efficiency programs have driven significant carbon dioxide reductions.

The EPA has a mandate to provide safeguards to limit carbon pollution.

In 2007, the Supreme Court established in Massachusetts vs. EPA that CO 2 qualifies as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. In 2009, the EPA issued an endangerment finding declaring that CO 2 emissions are a threat to public health. Those two actions established EPA’s legal obligation to issue rules limiting CO 2 emissions. We stand here today, 4 years later, asking the EPA to fulfill your legal obligation to protect the public health from the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions –existing power plants as quickly as possible.

We do not have time to waste. We are fast approaching a tipping point. The health and welfare of our own and future generations and in fact all life on Earth depend on action NOW to establish limits on carbon pollution from power plants and other sources.

Fran Ludwig257