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9.03.2010

Renewable Energy Certificates

Western Climate Initiative Releases Comprehensive Program Design

The Western Climate Initiative (WCI) released a comprehensive program design, which includes recommendations regarding voluntary purchases and the role of renewable energy certificates (RECs). WCI includes 11 partner states and provinces and has a goal to reduce 2005 greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 15 percent by 2020.

Similar to the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) model rule, the WCI program design includes an optional mechanism that sets aside allowances to be retired in recognition of voluntary renewable energy purchases. It will be up to each WCI Partner jurisdiction to decide whether to adopt this provision.

The WCI program design also recommends that RECs have no compliance role in the WCI cap-and-trade program. In this way, RECs and GHG allowances would be separate markets, and complications from the overlap of the two regulatory regimes would be avoided. If renewable energy from outside the WCI region is imported into the region, WCI would not attribute a greenhouse gas emissions value to it, regardless of whether the associated environmental attributes had already been sold into the voluntary market or for state RPS compliance.

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Top 50 Green Power Purchashers

EPA Releases Top 50 Green Power Purchasers

The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Green Power Partnership has released its latest list of top green power purchasers. Retaining their places at the top of the list were Intel Corporation, Kohl's Department Stores, Whole Foods Market, City of Houston, and Dell Inc.

There were a number of newcomers to the Top 50 list including: Washington, D.C. (No. 14), TD Bank, N.A. (No. 15), the state of Illinois (No. 23), Pearson, Inc. (No. 27), Chicago Public Schools (No. 35), and Harris N.A. (No. 42). BD (No. 19) and the Port of Portland (No. 49) both rose in the rankings by nearly doubling their green power purchases.

Collectively, the top 50 largest purchases amount to more than 12 billion kWh annually, or approximately 70 percent of the green power commitments made by all EPA Green Power Partners.

EPA's Green Power Partnership works with more than 1,200 partner organizations that voluntarily purchase green power to reduce the environmental impacts of conventional electricity use. Overall, the partners buy more than 17 billion kWh of green power annually.

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9.02.2010

Re: Who does clean air belong to?

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:48 PM, Dave Boundy, Repower America <info@repoweramerica.org> wrote:

Dear Scotts,

If one law helped shrink the hole in the ozone layer, most people would think it was good.

If the same law helped save our forests from acid rain, removed toxic lead from our gasoline and lowered the number of our children developing asthma, most people would consider it great.

And if that same exact law saved our country nearly $22 trillion over 20 years, most people would call it a landmark piece of legislation and a model of American leadership.

That law exists -- it's called the Clean Air Act. But right now, lobbyists from the fossil fuel industry are trying to gut this crucial law and roll back decades of progress for our economy, our health and our environment. Tell big polluters that clean air belongs to us -- and it isn't for sale.

Join Alec Baldwin, Kris Kristofferson and Gloria Reuben by adding your picture or video to Repower America's Clean Air Act video today.

The Clean Air Act has received overwhelming bipartisan support over the years. In fact, one of the biggest updates to the law was signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.

Yet the fossil fuel industry is targeting one of the provisions that makes this law so successful -- the section that empowers the EPA to limit greenhouse gas pollution threatening our public health and welfare. They're trying to weaken the law that's given us cleaner cars, lower rates of cancer and a huge increase in air quality.

Add your voice to the new video and take a stand for clean air by midnight on Friday, September 10:

www.RepowerAmerica.org/MyCleanAir

We'll select the best submissions to be in our final video.

The Clean Air Act is our last, best line of defense against the fossil fuel industry. Supporters like us need to take action today and save this vitally important law.

Thanks for getting involved at this critical moment,

Dave Boundy
Campaign Manager
The Climate Protection Action Fund's Repower America campaign

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Re: What Will $514 Million Buy?

On Thu, Sep 2, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Sam Parry, Environmental Defense Action Fund <takeaction@edf.org> wrote:

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Dear Scotts Contracting,

Big polluters and K St lobbyists spent a staggering $514 million over the last 18 months to defeat climate legislation.

These same forces are now taking aim on EPA's power to curb climate emissions under the Clean Air Act—and we urgently need your help to defend it.

Tell your Senators to let EPA do its job.

According to a recent report in Newsweek, over the last year and a half, the oil and gas industry has spent a staggering $514 million on direct lobbying, disinformation campaigns, sleazy advertising, and other pressure tactics, all designed with one goal in mind – to paralyze climate action.

Having won the battle in the Senate to defeat comprehensive legislation, those same extravagantly funded forces have turned their sights on the EPA.

Don't let them get away with it. Tell the Senate to let the EPA do its job.

Last year, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would begin reducing global warming pollution from automobiles and large power plants under the Clean Air Act.

While these steps do not diminish the need for a national climate law, EPA action will keep us on track to hit our critical short-term emissions targets—and buy us more time to keep fighting for national climate and energy legislation.

But now, under unrelenting lobbying pressure from the big polluters and their lobbyists, Senators from both sides of the aisle have proposed legislation that would strip EPA of its authority to regulate climate pollution.

Tell the Senate hands off the EPA – please take action now.

The climate crisis ultimately comes down to science, not politics. And while the politics of global warming are uncertain, the science is not: 2010 is on pace to become the hottest year ever recorded, following the hottest decade on record. Glacial and polar ice continues to melt at astonishing rates. Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent.

We need your continued activism to defend EPA's efforts to protect Americans from the catastrophic threat of runaway global warming.

Thank you for refusing to give up. In the end, that will make all the difference.

Thanks for all you do!

Sam Parry
Director, Online Membership and Activism

Environmental Defense Action Fund
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