Action.coop & Contacting the EPA

2. Action.coop & Contacting the EPA

3. The EPA Issue – How We Got Here • The President announced his Climate Action Plan • EPA released proposal to limit CO2 emissions from new coal and natural gas plants. - Essentially bans new coal plants. • Now, EPA is working on rules for existing plants. • We are concerned that all coal generation will disappear.

4. June 25th 2013 - Climate Address

5. Sept. 20th, 2013 - The EPA Proposes New Standards

6. Our Message to the EPA • Abandoning the All-of-the-Above Strategy • CCS Technology not Commercially Viable, Estimated to be Prohibitively Expensive • Coal: A Plentiful, Domestic Energy Source • History Repeats: 1970’s Mandate: No Natural Gas … 2013 Mandate: No Coal?

7. Abandons All-of-the-Above Strategy • The Presidents Climate Plan directs the EPA to enforce limits on CO2 emissions from coal plants • Abandoning All of the Above for an All but One plan

8. Technology Gamble • CCS Technology not Commercially Viable • Estimated to be Prohibitively Expensive

9. Limits Access to Affordable Domestic Energy • The United States has 236 years remaining of recoverable coal reserves • Coal is the most used energy source in the United States, accounting for 37 % of all electricity generated

10. History Repeats: All-But-One Doesn’t Work • A 1978 act prohibited burning natural gas to generate electricity – essentially forcing co-ops to invest solely in coal-based generating plants • 9 years later Congress repealed its mistake. There is no reason to repeat the mistakes of the past.

11. What “CAN” You Do Now? SHARE – action.coop with membership SEND – Your message to the EPA at action.coop ASK – Others to send their messages POST– Calls to action on social media

12. Why Now? Environmental community will send in millions of comments. EPA must hear the voice of Co-op Nation!