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Standards of Performance for Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Existing Sources: Electric Utility Generating Units

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League of Women Voters filed 4 comments on this docket between Jul 25, 2014 and Jan 2, 2015. 842 other organizations filed here. The comment window closed 4239d ago.

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Jan 2, 2015· Comment submitted by Marcia Weaver, President, League of Women Voters (LWV)· EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602-29694

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Dec 15, 2014· Comment submitted by Charlotte King, President, League of Women Voters of Delaware· EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602-25459

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS OF DELAWARE 2400 W. 17th Street, Clash Wing, Room 1 Lower Level Wilmington, DE 19806-1311, Phone/Fax: (302)571-8948 Email: lwvde@comcast.net COMMENTS TO THE EPA ON THE CLEAN POWER PLAN FOR REDUCING CARBON EMISSIONS FROM EXISTING POWER PLANTS 11/5/14 Docket ID: EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602 The League of Women Voters of Delaware (LWVDE) appreciates the opportunity to make comments on EPAs Clean Power Plan for reducing carbon emissions from existing power plants. We, in Delaware, are particularly concerned about the effects of sea level rise because of our exceptionally low average elevation and the threat of more powerful coastal storms. The League of Women Voters of the United States (LWVUS) has held positions on encouraging the use of renewable energy resources; policies to reduce energy demand and minimize the need for new generating capacity through techniques such as marginal cost or peak-load pricing or demand-management programs; mandatory energy-conservation measures, including thermal standards for building efficiency, new appliance standards and stricter standards for new automobiles; and recently in June of 2014 voted at its national convention to support putting a price on carbon emissions. Also, for several years, the LWVUS has called for a moratorium on the building of new coal-fired power plants. The LWVDE was pleased that EPAs draft Clean Power Plan incorporates many of our position items such as: Supporting reducing GHG emissions from power plants by 30% and soot and smog by 20%. This is a good starting point, but it is far short of what the United States needs to do in order to bring emissions down to the recommended levels by 2050; Supporting using more renewable energy and improving energy efficiency; Supporting consistent federal funding and tax credits for renewable resources; Supporting carbon pricing in one form or another; Protecting public health and saving billions. We understand the need for a flexible plan for each state. It is hoped that the flexibility will encourage each state to meet its designated goal of carbon emission reduction. The League supports: A consistent national frameworkwhere all states will encourage renewable energy and/or energy efficiency programs; Renewable portfolio standards or goals; Demand-side energy efficiency programs; Market-based GHG reduction programs; Regional or state plans like the northeast RGGI; State-specific goals to lower carbon pollution from power plants; Requiring dates for submitting states plans with the flexibility suggested. The following are concerns about the Clean Power Plan: 1.The League is concerned about enforcement of each states plan. What is the federal government going to do when states do not submit plans or meet goals? How is each state going to be held responsible? Will the federal government provide incentives and what might these incentives be? What types of penalties for not submitting plans or meeting goals will be issued? Examples might be: reductions of federal funding for highway maintenance, beach replenishment or subsidies for fossil fuel energy development . 2.Will EPA offer assistance to help states set up RGGI plans? 3.This plan deals only with power plants reducing their combined GHG emissions by 30%. However, methane is a very powerful greenhouse gas and the extraction, processing and transmission of natural gas create many possibilities for leakage into the atmosphere of methane. EPA needs to move ahead with strong and effective controls of methane emissions. 4.We are also concerned that the proposed rules favor the construction and use of new gas-fired power plants. We urge that the new regulations favor the use of conservation and renewables over natural gas. Conservation and renewables can play a much greater role in reducing greenhouse gases than they do in the current proposal. They should be emphasized over technologies where extractions threatens the environment, as natural gas does in hydraulic f…

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Dec 6, 2014· Comment submitted by Anne S. Borg and Marilyn Peterson, Co-Presidents, League of Women Voters of Massachusetts (LWVMA)· EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602-23301

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Jul 25, 2014· Mass Comment Campaign sponsored by League of Women Voters (LWV) (email)· EPA-HQ-OAR-2013-0602-5789

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Abstract

This action will amend the electric generating units (EGUs) New Source Performance Standard and add a section 111(d) greenhouse gas (GHG) standard for States to apply to existing sources electric generating units existing sources.

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