Resolution Concerning Environmental protection agency Suggested Green house Gas Emission Standards for brand new and Existing Fossil-Fueled Power Plants

Resolution Concerning Environmental protection agency Suggested Green house Gas Emission Standards for brand new and Existing Fossil-Fueled Power Plants

Summary: This resolution establishes a state’s responsibility for creating emission standards and recognizes EPA’s responsibility for creating guidelines which, when done correctly, can result in economical reductions in green house gas emissions without requiring units retirement or perhaps a curtailment of operations.

This resolution is supposed to be considered a template comprised of a number of factual statements (“WHEREAS” clauses) and actions statements (“RESOLVED”) clauses, for every condition to examine then the condition can choose the clauses that best reflect the state’s individual priorities while strongly making the situation for condition primacy when it comes to green house gas standards.

WHEREAS. on June 25, 2013, obama issued a memorandum towards the U.S. Environmental protection agency Administrator directing the Environmental protection agency to propose New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for green house gases (GHG) that establish limits for co2 (CO2) emissions from new fossil fuel fired electric generating units that the Administrator did on September 20, 2013 by exactly the same memorandum directed the Administrator to:

• Issue suggested carbon pollution standards, rules, or guidelines, as appropriate, for modified, reconstructed, and existing power plants by no after June 1, 2014
• Issue final standards, rules, or guidelines, as suitable for modified, reconstructed and existing power plants by no after June 1, 2015
• Use in the rules addressing existing power plants essential that States undergo the U.S. Environmental protection agency the implementation plans needed under Section 111(d) from the Climate Act and it is applying rules by no after June 30, 2016 and

WHEREAS. obama instructed the Environmental protection agency, in the efforts to deal with carbon emissions from modified, reconstructed and existing power plants to interact directly with States, and specifically recognized that States “will play a main role in creating and applying standards for existing power plants” and

WHEREAS. obama instructed the Environmental protection agency to utilize Condition agencies to “promote trustworthy and cost-effective provision of electrical power with the ongoing development and deployment of cleaner technologies by growing energy-efficiency, including through more powerful appliance efficiency standards along with other measures” and

WHEREAS. Environmental protection agency is proposing two standards for brand new fuel-fired utility boilers and IGCC units of just one,100 pounds of CO2 per gross megawatt-hour (lbs CO2/MWh gross) on the 12-operating month period or 1,000-1,050 lbs CO2/MWh gross over an 84-operating month period, each of which will need new coal units to use a minimum of partial carbon capture and storage (CCS) technology and

WHEREAS. Environmental protection agency is proposing two standards for brand new gas-fired stationary combustion units of just one,000 lbs CO2/MWh gross for units more than 850 million British thermal units each hour (mmBtu/hr) and 1,100 lbs CO2/MWh gross for units under or comparable to 850 mmBtu/hr, neither which will need using any CCS technology and

WHEREAS. President Obama’s Interagency Task Pressure on Carbon Capture and Storage August 2010 report figured that CCS technologies “are not prepared for prevalent implementation mainly because they haven’t yet been shown in the scale essential to establish confidence for power plant application” and

WHEREAS. Environmental protection agency has unsuccessful to determine that CCS is the greatest system of emission reduction that’s been adequately shown, as needed through the Climate Act and it is applying rules and

WHEREAS. the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Laboratory finds that the use of presently researched CCS technology to new coal-fired power plants could increase the price of electricity created by such plants by 80 %, which may seriously impact industrial, commercial and particularly residential consumers and

WHEREAS. the best coal-fired power plants, for example individuals which use the commercially accessible ultra-supercritical and supercritical technologies represent the very best system of emission reduction that’s been adequately shown, but alone could be inadequate to attain EPA’s suggested performance standard and

WHEREAS. strongly supports a diversified energy add an “all-of- the-above” energy strategy and never an “all-but-one” approach that restricts the long run utilization of coal to create affordable electricity and

WHEREAS. the brand new proposal doesn’t correct too little the factors initially suggested by U.S. Environmental protection agency in April 2012 and

WHEREAS. this year CO2 emissions from U.S. coal-based electric generation were 23 percent below 2005 levels based on the U.S. Environmental protection agency Climate Markets Acidity Rain Program database and

WHEREAS. presently a lot of electricity within the U . s . States is created by coal base load power plants and CO2 emissions from electric generation are ongoing to lower because of retirements of units which are uneconomic to retrofit to conform along with other Environmental protection agency rules and operate because of market conditions and

WHEREAS. total CO2 emissions for that U.S. happen to be decreasing and therefore are on the right track to satisfy the administration’s non-binding target of 17 % below 2005 levels by 2020 and

WHEREAS. EPA’s suggested needs don’t sufficiently notice that accumulation of green house gases within the atmosphere is really a global issue and global action is needed to deal with it and

WHEREAS. Section 111(d) and it is applying rules define roles, authority and discretion for Environmental protection agency and also the States, and Environmental protection agency is needed to determine a process to ensure that States can make use of their full authority and discretion to build up performance standards and implementation plans for existing plants according to all versatility mechanisms available underneath the Climate Act and it is applying rules and

WHEREAS. Section 111(d) and EPA’s current applying rules specifically authorize States to take into consideration factors because the &#8220unreasonable price of control caused by plant age, location, or fundamental process design&#8221, &#8220physical impracticality of installing necessary control equipment&#8221 and &#8220any additional factors specific towards the facility (or type of facilities) which make use of a less stringent standard or final compliance time considerably more sensible&#8221 when creating determinations on the use of the right standard of performance to particular existing source and

WHEREAS. States curently have the authority conferred through the Climate Act and it is applying rules to determine and also to demonstrate the use of less stringent emission standards or longer compliance schedules than individuals provided in relevant rules or emission guidelines and

WHEREAS. america depend on Environmental protection agency to issue a &#8220procedure&#8221 under Section 111(d) and it is applying rules that reflects the very best system or systems of direct emission reductions at affected facilities that’s been adequately shown, considering the price of achieving such reduction and then any non-quality of air health insurance and ecological impact and needs, that’s been adequately shown and

WHEREAS. States have jurisdiction over integrated resource planning along with other resource adequacy decisions, processes which ultimately determine the mixes of fuels in Condition generation portfolios, which vary from Condition to Condition and

WHEREAS. States have different mixes of fuels and sources within their existing generation portfolios and

WHEREAS. Coal provides affordable and reliable electricity to 48 States, such as the 29 Claims that depend on coal to supply greater than 25% of the electric generation and also the 15 Claims that depend on coal to supply greater than 50 % of the electricity generation and

WHEREAS. States have achieved different amounts of CO2 reductions up to now, and also have diverse economies, energy needs and face different economic conditions, including States with energy intensive manufacturing industries that offer goods for the whole nation

WHEREAS. Section 111(d) and it is applying rules provide discretion for States to keep the whole process of coal-based electricity generating plants with the finish of the helpful lives that meet ecological performance needs for conventional and hazardous air pollutants and

NOW, THEREFORE Whether It Is RESOLVED. that urges the Administration and Congress with input from federal agencies to determine a nationwide energy policy that encourages use of and elimination of impediments to any or all available domestic causes of energy that it is affordable and reliable

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. when the Ecological Protection Agency establishes guidelines to deal with green house gas emissions from new fossil-fuel electric generating units, condition > urges Environmental protection agency to determine separate guidelines for coal-fueled electric generating units that derive from highly efficient units for example ultrasupercritical and supercritical technologies without CCS that will optimize the economical and equitable utilization of all of domestic fuel sources – recognizing the truth that more hours is required for carbon capture and storage to get a correctly shown best system of emissions reduction

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. that urges the U.S. Ecological Protection Agency, U.S. United states doe, and also the Congress to aid industry efforts to analyze and develop CCS technologies

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. that in case the Environmental protection agency develops emissions guidelines for controlling carbon emissions from existing power plants, Environmental protection agency must respect the primacy of States, and also the guidelines mustn’t infringe upon States’ authority already supplied by the Climate Act and it is applying rules to depend on Condition legislators, Condition energy officials and Condition utility and Condition ecological regulators to operate together and lead in the introduction of, CO2 performance standards and implementation plans that reflect the policies, energy needs, resource mix, energy-efficiency (both grid-side and customer measures) and economic conditions of every Condition and region based on Condition legislators which regulators which exist now and later on

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. the guidelines shouldn’t infringe upon States’ authority already supplied by the Climate Act and it is applying rules that enables States individually or regionally to take into consideration the various makeup of existing power generation and resource add each Condition and region and taking advantage of current rules that offer for States so that you can demonstrate less stringent emission standards and longer compliance schedules for affected facilities

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. that EPA’s emission guidelines should be according to emissions reduction measures that may be cost-effectively achieved at affected power plants and that don’t require units to retire or curtail operation

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. the guidelines ought to provide that when States adopt performance standards according to cost-effective, achievable emission reductions at affected power plants, States maintain authority and discretion already supplied by the Climate Act and it is applying rules to apply flexible compliance mechanisms, individual and regional, (for example market-based programs) that offer consumer advantages to lessen the costs of one’s, and therefore the price of applying the machine of emissions reduction that every Condition adopts through its duly constituted legislatures and utility, energy and ecological agencies

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. the guidelines should recognize Condition and regional variations within the provisions of affordable and reliable electricity to ensure that each Condition can minimize compliance costs to ratepayers and keep reliability

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. the guidelines recognize and credit States’ emissions reduction achievements up to now, and shall not intrude around the States’ jurisdiction over integrated resource planning or else mandate modifications towards the mixture of fuels in existing and future Condition generation portfolios

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. that will give you comments to Environmental protection agency that reflect the findings and resolved provisions of the resolution and urges other states/organizations to complete likewise

Whether It Is FURTHER RESOLVED. that copies of the resolution should be transmitted towards the President from the U . s . States, the U.S. Ecological Protection Agency, the U.S. United states doe, the nation’s Governor’s Association, the nation’s Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, National Association of Condition Energy Officials, the Ecological Council from the States, the Association of Consumer Counsel National Association of Attorney Generals along with other relevant organizations, all governors, all condition utility regulatory commissions, condition energy officials, all condition ecological commissioners, all attorney generals and all sorts of states’ legislative leadership and legislative employees are forwarded to advocate for that provisions within this resolution, inform america around the status from the resolved actions, and collaborate using the aforementioned parties to teach and get the goals within this resolution.

Authorized by the ALEC Board of Company directors The month of january 9, 2014.