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</font></p><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">concl:</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">We estimated the impacts of the EPA regulations on Blacks and Hispanics in the seven states where they are the most heavily concentrated: Arizona, California, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New York, and Texas. In all states (except Georgia), the impacts on Hispanic incomes exceed the impacts on Black incomes, since there are more Hispanics than Blacks residing in these states. Further, the growth rates of the Hispanic population exceed those of Blacks in all of these states. The impacts vary widely among the states. The greatest loss of income and jobs will be experienced by Hispanics in Texas, since this state has a large and growing Hispanic population and is severely affected by the EPA regulations. In all states (except for Georgia), Hispanic job losses exceed Black job losses. The impacts vary widely among the states. While Hispanic jobs losses exceed Black job losses in all of the states except Georgia, in some states job losses for the two groups are about the same – for example, in New York and in Illinois. We estimated the increases in Hispanic and Black energy burdens in the states in 2025 and 2035 resulting from the EPA regulations and found that: • In 2025, increase the energy burden of Blacks by 16 percent and Hispanics by 19 percent • By 2035, increase the energy burden of Blacks by more than one-third and Hispanics by more than 35 percent • The energy burdens for both Blacks and Hispanics increase in each year. • For each group, the increases in energy burdens in 2035 are larger than those in 2025. • For each group, the increases in energy burdens are the largest in Texas, Florida, Georgia, and Arizona. • In Georgia, the increased energy burden is larger for Blacks than for Hispanics. • In the other six states the increased energy burden is larger for Hispanics than for Blacks. 106 </font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 10px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SERVICES, INC. Management Information Services, Inc. is an economic and energy research firm with expertise on a wide range of complex issues, including energy, electricity, and the environment. The MISI staff offers specializations in economics, information technology, engineering, and finance, and includes former senior officials from private industry, the federal government, and academia. Over the past three decades MISI has conducted extensive proprietary research, and since 1985 has assisted hundreds of clients, including Fortune 500 companies, nonprofit organizations and foundations, the UN, academic and research institutions, and state and federal government agencies including the White House, the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the U.S. Department of Defense, the U.S. Marine Corps, the U.S. Air Force, NASA, NHTSA, the National Energy Technology Laboratory, the U.S. General Services Administration, and the National Academies of Science. For more information, please visit the MISI web site at www.misi-net.com.</font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</div><div><span style="color: rgb(153, 153, 153); font-family: "Gotham A", "Gotham B", verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; text-transform: uppercase; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">JUNE 12, 2015, </span></div><div>
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</div><div><b>an op-ed in yesterday’s Investor’s Business Daily uses a new study to make unsubstantiated claims about the economic impacts of the proposed<span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"> Clean Power Plan on vulnerable communities</span></b>. Since the op-ed didn’t provide a link to the actual analysis, we hunted it down and took a look behind the headlines. And when we did, we found that the foundations of this new “analysis” are shaky indeed.</div><div>
</div><div>A house built on sand</div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The new study, conducted by Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI) on behalf of the National Black Chamber of Commerce (NBCC</span>), purports to look at a range of EPA regulations, but focuses on the Clean Power Plan (CPP).</div><div>energy-clean-power-plan-black-chamber-of-commerce-study-cover-not-science</div><div>
</div><div><b>But here’s the first of the study’s fatal flaws: it depends, as it explicitly says (p. 21), on the findings of seven other studies, which it lists. But those seven include:</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Three studies that came out before the EPA published the draft CPP, meaning they don’t actually study the CPP as proposed—even though that’s the supposed focus of the NBCC/MISI analysis</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One that was just (self-described) “preliminary analysis” from the United Mine Workers of America, a group you’d be hard-pressed to characterize as an unbiased voice in this debate</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Three other studies funded by other fossil fuel interests who oppose the Clean Power Plan</b></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Two of those studies were the focus of a recent UCS webinar showing how such studies use bad assumptions and get used to sow confusion and spread disinformation about the CPP.</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One of those, done by<b> IHS on behalf of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce,</b> is the report most cited in this new work, even though it was one of those that came out before the draft CPP, and even though there was, as the Chamber itself admitted, “a big difference” between what they’d modeled and what EPA put forth (which the new study doesn’t acknowledge).</span></div><div><b>
</b></div><div><b>The flaws in the study by Energy Ventures Analysis (EVA) for Peabody Energy (the largest U.S. coal company) are also clear.</b> The Center for Climate and Energy Solutions has pointed out that, unlike other studies, EVA’s didn’t even show a business-as-usual case, meaning that any CPP results were floating in a vacuum, without reference to a base case of shifting energy costs and other economic factors.</div><div>
</div><div>Ignoring the bedrock</div><div>
</div><div><b>Equally telling are the studies that didn’t make NBCC/MISI’s literature review:</b></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">The EPA’s own cost-benefit analysis, which showed investments in energy efficiency under the Clean Power Plan will ultimately generate savings on electricity bills nationally</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">
</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Studies from academic sources, which show the CPP delivering widespread health co-benefits by reducing harmful air pollution from power plants</span></div><div>
</div><div><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">One by the NAACP that has documented the costly and disproportionate impacts of power plant pollution on “low-income communities and communities of color”</span></div><div>
</div><div><b>Another recent analysis by researchers at the University of Maryland suggesting the CPP will lead to a net increase in jobs</b>.</div><div>
</div><div>But you wouldn’t glean any of that from the new NBCC/MISI report. No, it follows in the footsteps of previous misleading studies by exaggerating the costs and ignoring the benefits of climate action.</div><div>
</div><div>The elephant in the neighborhood</div><div>
</div><div>And that brings up another of the study’s fatal flaws: it forgets about climate change. In the op-ed, the only mention of “mitigation” is about avoiding the supposed impacts of the regulation. And even in the study itself, nary a word.</div><div>
</div><div>If you ignore the benefits side of the cost-benefit equation, it's hard to come up with anything but bad news. But when you take a solid look at both sides of the equation, you see a pretty impressive net-positive.</div><div>
</div><div>Hard to believe, I realize. But somehow the author makes it through the entire study without mentioning global warming. This, a purported study of a regulation, but it doesn’t even acknowledge the incredible amount of science behind the need for just such a regulation. All it’s got is one mention of “warmer climates” and the importance of air-conditioning… which, it turns out, we’ll need more of as the climate warms.</div><div>
</div><div>And who is going to be disproportionately affected by that warming climate and other impacts? In many cases, the same vulnerable populations that the new study is supposedly defending.</div><div>
</div><div>On the other hand, that grievous omission isn’t entirely surprising, since the author of the study has claimed—despite the wealth of information very much to the contrary—that more carbon dioxide is actually a good thing. Not so much.</div><div>
</div><div>Poor science, bad policy</div><div>It all adds up to a study that Juan Declet-Barreto of the Natural Resources Defense Council calls:</div><div>
</div><div>“…a cynical attempt at co-opting the Latino and African American communities into rejecting the most significant controls to power sector air pollutants and toxics affecting their health and communities.”</div><div>
</div><div>The Clean Power Plan is about the fundamental need to address climate change, including on behalf of those who are least equipped to deal with its impacts. A study of the CPP that forgets that isn’t worth the electrons it’s printed on.</div><div>
</div><div>Poor science may make for good headlines, but it definitely makes for bad policy.</div><div>
</div><div>JOHN ROGERS is a senior energy analyst with expertise in renewable energy and energy efficiency technologies and policies. SEE JOHN'S FULL BIO.</div></div><div>
</div><div>---</div><div>lnx</div><div><ul style="margin: 0px 0px 10px 20px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 40px; color: rgb(76, 76, 76); font-family: "Mercury Text G1 A", "Mercury Text G1 B", Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 8px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">The <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180628175608/http://www.ucsusa.org/global-warming/reduce-emissions/how-much-will-clean-power-plan-cost#bf-toc-2" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 122, 165); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;">EPA’s own cost-benefit analysis</a>, which showed investments in energy efficiency under the Clean Power Plan will ultimately generate <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">savings on electricity bills</strong> nationally</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 8px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Studies from academic sources, which show the CPP <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180628175608/http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/press-releases/clean-power-plan-health-benefits-hinge-on-policy-decisions/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 122, 165); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;">delivering <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">widespread health co-benefits</strong></a> by reducing harmful air pollution from power plants</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 8px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">One by the NAACP that has documented the <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180628175608/http://e360.yale.edu/feature/naacp_jacqueline_patterson_coal_pollution_and_fight_for_environmental_justice/2664/" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 122, 165); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">costly and disproportionate impacts</strong> of power plant pollution</a> on “low-income communities and communities of color”</li><li style="margin: 0px 0px 5px 8px; padding: 0px; font-size: 20px; line-height: 30px;">Another <a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20180628175608/http://www.inforum.umd.edu/papers/otherstudies/2015/iec_inforum_report_041415.pdf" target="blank" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(0, 122, 165); text-decoration-line: none; outline: 0px;">recent analysis by researchers at the University of Maryland</a> suggesting the CPP will lead to a <strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">net increase in jobs</strong>.</li></ul></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div></div><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">=</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">testified for peabody (WFA?)</font></p><h1 style="line-height: 1.2em; margin-top: 0.75em; margin-bottom: 0.75em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Bezdek</font></h1><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Credentials</font></h2><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Ph.D in Economics, University of Illinois (Urbana). <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s1" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></font></li></ul><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Background </font></strong></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Roger Bezdek is an economist by training and the president and founder of the Virginia-based consulting firm <a href="http://www.misi-net.com/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Management Information Services, Inc.</a> (<span class="caps" style="">MIS</span>).</b> According to the <span class="caps" style="">MIS</span> website, Bezdek's company specializes in “economic research and management consulting with expertise in economic forecasting, litigation support and expert witness testimony.” </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">According to his official bio, Bezdek has “40 years experience in consulting and management in the energy, utility, environmental, and regulatory areas.” Bezdek has served in various roles within the <span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> government, including the <span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span>Department of Commerce and the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury. </font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bezdek is the author of three books that deal mainly with energy policy issues. <b>He is <a href="http://www.cfact.org/author/roger-bezdek/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">a contributing writer</a> on the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/committee-constructive-tomorrow" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (<span class="caps" style="">CFACT</span>)</a></b> website, normally co-authoring his work with <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/paul-driessen" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Paul Dreissen</a>. </span><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s2" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></font></p><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Stance on Climate Change</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In recent years, Bezdek has been very vocal in his opposition to new <span class="caps" style="">U.S.</span> regulations on greenhouse gas emissions and argues that excessive amounts of <span class="caps" style="">C02</span> are good for the planet and that the scientfic consensus on climate change is a “manufactured myth.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>On June 1, 2015, Bezdek <a href="http://desmogblog.com/2015/08/25/peabody-energy-climate-change-sow-doubt-bezdek-spencer" style="text-decoration-line: none;">testified on behalf of the coal company Peabody Energy</a></b> at a Minnesota Public Utilities Commission hearing, where he went on the record stating that:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span><span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> is not harmful and is actually good for the planet…”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The federal <span class="caps" style="">SCC</span> [social costs of carbon] estimates do not adequately consider the<b> benefits 27 of fossil fuels andCO2 emission.” </b></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>In reality, the 'scientific consensus' is a manufactured myth</b>…”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">“… there is no convincing evidence that anthropogenic global warming (<span class="caps" style="">AGW</span>) will produce catastrophic climate changes.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="line-height: 1.1em;">Writing in </span><a href="https://www.advancedenergyforlife.com/article/roger-bezdek-carbon-dioxide-profoundly-earth-friendly" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 1.1em;">an undated article</a><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"> appearing on Peabody Energy's </span><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2014/11/11/peabody-energy-goes-offense-new-pr-campaign-designed-sell-same-old-dirty-coal" style="text-decoration-line: none; line-height: 1.1em;">“Advanced Energy for Life” </a><span class="caps" style="">PR</span> <span style="line-height: 1.1em;">campaign website, Bezdek claims that, “[i]n a thinly disguised assault on coal and hydrocarbons, the Obama Administration would have us believe that carbon dioxide (<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span>) is a threat to life itself.”</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In a December, 2014<em> Washington Post</em> opinion piece, columnist Dana Milbank describes the <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-new-climate-denialism-carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-you/2014/12/15/beaafc72-8499-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">“new climate denialism”</a> and uses a presentation by Roger Bezdek as his main source. Milbank writes:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span><span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> is basically plant food, and the more <span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> in the environment the better plants do,” proclaimed Roger Bezdek, a consultant to energy companies, at an event hosted Monday by the United States Energy Association, an industry trade group.</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Milbank also points out that while Bezdek is making scientific claims, he is not a scientist:</font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“And though Bezdek is an economist, not a scientist, he played one on Monday — showing a PowerPoint presentation that documented a tree growing faster when exposed to more carbon dioxide. <span style="line-height: 1.1em;">'<span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> increases over the past several decades have increased global greening by about 11 percent,' the consultant said.”</span><span style="line-height: 1.1em;"> </span></font></p></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Quotes</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 1, 2015</font></strong></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span><span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> is not harmful and is actually good for the planet…”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s4" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></font></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 1, 2015</font></strong></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>The federal <span class="caps" style="">SCC</span> [social costs of carbon] estimates do not adequately consider the benefits 27 of fossil fuels andCO2 emission.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s5" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></font></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 1, 2015</font></span></strong></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="dquo" style="margin-left: 0px;">“</span>In reality, the 'scientific consensus' is a manufactured myth…”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s6" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></font></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 1, 2015</font></strong></span></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“… there is no convincing evidence that anthropogenic global warming (<span class="caps" style="">AGW</span>) will produce catastrophic climate changes.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s7" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></font></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 21, 2007</font></span></strong></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“global warming is currently a major concern.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s8" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></font></span></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 21, 2007</font></span></strong></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><span style="line-height: 17.6px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“climate change and peak oil are probably the two most long term, intractable energy and environmental problems the world faces.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s9" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></font></span></p></blockquote><h2 style="line-height: 2em; margin-top: 1em; margin-bottom: 1em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Key Deeds</font></h2><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">March 23, 2017</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170407025745/http://climateconference.heartland.org/Speakers/roger-bezdek/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Bezdek spoke</a> at the <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/heartland-institute" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Heartland Institute</a>'s 12th International Conference on Climate Change (<span class="caps" style="">ICCC12</span></span>) on a panel titled “Fossil Fuels and Human Prosperity.” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s15" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">[vid]</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Roger Bezdek was one of several witnesses sponsored by <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/07/peabodys-outlier-gang-couldnt-shoot-straight" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy, fighting a legal case on M<b>innesota's Social Cost of Carbon (<span class="caps" style="">SCC</span>)</b></a><b>. </b>Peabody Energy's list of skeptical scientists included the following: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s10" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></font></p><ul style="margin: 1.5em 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px;"><li><a href="http://desmogblog.com/william-happer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Will Happer</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Richard Lindzen</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roy-spencer" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roy Spencer</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/robert-mendelsohn" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Robert Mendelsohn</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roger Bezdek</font></a></li><li><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-tol" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Richard <span class="caps" style="">S.J.</span> Tol</font></a></li></ul><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/06/07/peabodys-outlier-gang-couldnt-shoot-straight" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"><em>DeSmog</em> reviewed the case findings</a>, and reported how the arguments presented by Peabody were rejected by the Administrative Law Judge (<span class="caps" style="">ALJ</span>). Some of Peabody's central “scientific” arguments, as <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Findings.ALJ.20164-120135-01.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">commented on by The <span class="caps" style="">ALJ</span> in findings documents</a>, were as follows: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s11" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>p.18</strong><a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/Findings.ALJ.20164-120135-01.pdf" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> </a>“Peabody asserted that significant climate change is not occurring or, to the extent climate change is occurring, it is not due to anthropogenic causes. Furthermore, Peabody insisted that any current warming and increased <span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> in the Earth’s atmosphere are beneficial. Based on its position on climate change, Peabody maintained that the externality value of <span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> would most accurately be set at or below zero.…”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><strong>p.31</strong> “The Administrative Law Judge concludes that Peabody Energy has failed to demonstrate, by a preponderance of the evidence, that climate change is not occurring or, to the extent climate change is occurring, the warming and increased <span class="caps" style="">CO2</span> in the Earth’s atmosphere are beneficial.” </font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The Judge ruled unambiguously against Peabody, as <a href="http://www.bna.com/alj-minnesota-federal-n57982070025/" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reported <em>Bloomberg <span class="caps" style="">BNA</span></em></a>. <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s12" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a> <em>The Guardian </em>also suggested a number of reasons that <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/may/11/coal-made-its-best-case-against-climate-change-and-lost" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Peabody Energy lost the case</a>, including <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/richard-lindzen" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">Richard Lindzen</a>'s own admission that the case hinged on ignoring the <span class="caps" style="">IPCC</span> expert consensus, and instead listening to contrarian science:<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [13]</a></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“All of this [opposition] testimony is flawed to the extent it simply relies on … predictions by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change […] today the best evidence indicates that … a much lower climate sensitivity value of 1°C or 1.5°C is correct […]” <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s13" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“Peabody’s scientists made errors that were easy to identify and point out to the Judge. Furthermore, the Judge was smart, quickly able to see through nonsense non-science,” <em>The Guardian </em>reports. “For those of you that read the report, you’ll notice that the Peabody side made claims about the natural variability of Earth’s climate, about Earth temperature changes, and about extreme weather events.”<a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> [14]</a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Some notable judicial conclusions were as follows, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/may/02/peabody-coals-contrarian-scientist-witnesses-lose-their-court-case" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">reports <em>The Guardian</em></a>: <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/roger-bezdek#s14" style="text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></font></p><blockquote style="margin: 1.5em 30px;"><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“22. The Administrative Law Judge concludes that Peabody failed to demonstrate that an equilibrium climate sensitivity of 1 or 1.5°C is correct.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“23. The Administrative Law Judge concludes that the climate sensitivity is reasonably considered to be in the 2-4.5°C range.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">“47. The Administrative Law Judge concludes that Peabody failed to demonstrate that the relied upon process is neither peer-reviewed nor transparent.”</font></p></blockquote><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">June 21, 2007 - Formerly Stated Climate Change an 'Intractable Problem'</font></strong></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">While Bezdek claims today that <span class="caps" style="">C02</span> is not harmful, that has not always been the case. <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13_9LNNBDo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;"> </a></font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x13_9LNNBDo" target="blank" style="text-decoration-line: none;">In a presentation</a> in Sydney, Australia at the Smart 2007 Conference, Bezdek stated that, “climate change and peak oil are probably the two most long term, intractable energy and environmental problems the world faces</span>.” In his <a href="https://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/SMART-2007-Slides.pdf" style="text-decoration-line: none;">slides [<span class="caps" style="">PDF</span>]</a> from the presentation, Bezdek states on slide 2 that “global warming is currently a major concern.”</font></p><p style="margin: 1em 0px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Here's Bezdek speaking at the Smart 2007 Conference in Sydney, Australia:...</font></p><p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">==</font>

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<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The group’s opposition to policies seeking to cut pollution and increase renewable energy stretches back to the late 1990s, when the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><b>NBCC fought against the Kyoto protocol.</b></font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In August 1997, the NBCC approved a resolution opposing U.S. participation in any meaningful U.N. climate pact like the one to be negotiated in Kyoto, Japan later that year. The resolution said that “the NBCC dedicates itself to educating its members, constituents, and others that there is no scientific reason for limits on greenhouse gas emissions.” It stated concerns that climate action would disproportionately impact urban areas and black-owned businesses.</font></p>

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<p style="font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 1; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0.4em 0px; border: 0px; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: 1.6em; vertical-align: baseline; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI) <a href="http://www.misi-net.com/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">bills itself</a> as “an internationally recognized, Washington D.C.-based economic research and management consulting firm with expertise in economic forecasting, litigation support and expert witness testimony, analysis of energy, environmental and electric utility issues, and labor markets.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Roger Bezdek, MISI’s president, <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/pub/roger-bezdek/14/883/859" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">has been</a> with the firm for nearly 30 years, and <a href="http://www.nationalbcc.org/component/content/article?id=1084:2010-agenda" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">has spoken</a> at past NBCC conferences. MISI has written <a href="http://www.americaspower.org/sites/default/files/Social_Cost_of_Carbon.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">reports</a> for ACCCE, the “clean coal” industry group, on “the social benefits of carbon” pollution. Bezdek has given <a href="http://marshall.org/climate-change/presentation-by-roger-bezdek-on-social-cost-of-carbon/" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">presentations</a> on the same topic, earning a Washington Post <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/dana-milbank-the-new-climate-denialism-carbon-dioxide-is-good-for-you/2014/12/15/beaafc72-8499-11e4-b9b7-b8632ae73d25_story.html" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">op-ed debunking</a> his climate denier views.</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Bezdek’s firm has a history of working with NBCC. In 2000, MISI did an <a href="http://research.greenpeaceusa.org/?a=download&d=4233" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">analysis</a> (pdf download) about the likely economic impacts of the Kyoto Protocol on minority communities in the United States, sponsored by the NBCC and several other minority business groups. Its conclusion: “by virtually any economic, employment, or social criterion, Blacks and Hispanics will likely be seriously harmed by implementation of the Kyoto Protocol.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MISI recently <a href="https://grist.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/refusing_to_repeat.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">updated that analysis</a> for the same collection of business groups in a report called, “”Refusing to repeat past mistakes: How the Kyoto Climate Change Protocol would disproportionately threaten the economic well-being of Blacks and Hispanics in the United States.”</font>

<font size="4" face="Times New Roman">In June, MISI authored a <a href="http://nbccnow.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/Minority-Impacts-Report-June-2015-Final.pdf" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">report</a> just for the NBCC about the impact EPA’s proposed carbon rule would have on minority communities. It concluded, once again, that “these regulations would have serious economic, employment, and energy impacts at the national level and for all states, and the impacts on low-income groups, Blacks, and Hispanics would be especially severe.” This report relied on <a href="http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/208073-fact-checkers-blast-chambers-289-billion-price-tag-for-epa-rule" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">thoroughly debunked</a> studies from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and NERA Economic Consulting about the alleged costs of EPA’s proposed rule.</font>

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<h1 class="title"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jackson and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Innis</span> Are Back With Another Energy Front Group</font></h1>

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<div class="submitted"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span>Submitted by</span> Kyle Mantyla on Monday, 4/19/<b>2010</b> 1:38 pm</font></div>

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<p><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Back in the summer of 2008, we produced a <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/2008/07/astroturf_group.html">series</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/dubious-%E2%80%98grassroots%E2%80%99-drilling-campaign">of</a> <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/hatch-joins-phony-stop-war-poor-effort">posts</a> about an effort called "Stop the War on the Poor" that was led by Harry Jackson and Niger Innis, claiming to be a campaign to claim that "extreme environmentalists" who oppose increased domestic oil drilling are enemies of the poor.</font></span>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In essence, the group's message was that high energy prices disproportionately impact the poor and that domestic oil drilling was solution to keeping energy prices low. Not surprisingly, the effort was heavily supported by pro-drilling and other energy business interests. </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Now Jackson and Innis are back with a similar message, but with a<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"> new group called the <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affordablepoweralliance.org/AboutUs.aspx">Affordable Power Alliance</a>:</span></font></p>

<p><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The mission of the Alliance is heart a humanitarian one. Thousands of Americans become sick and die each year because high energy costs that prevent them from adequately heating or cooling their homes; buying the medicines they need; and practicing better health prevention measures. Millions more lose opportunities to better themselves and their families because rising energy costs eat away at a large portion of their disposable income.</font></span>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">That is why we consider public policies that raise energy costs to be <b>dangerous and immoral </b>-– especially given that higher energy prices hit middle-income families the working poor the hardest.</font></span></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Last week, Jackson and Innis <a target="_blank" href="http://townhall.com/columnists/HarryRJacksonJr/2010/04/19/a_tea_party_diary">took their pro-drilling energy front-group message to a <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Tea Party in Colorado</span></a><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">:</span></font></p>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Last Wednesday on “tax day,” I had the privilege of attending my first Tea Party event. Standing on the steps of the Colorado State Capitol building in Denver, I addressed several thousand people concerning the impact of wrong-headed energy policies on all Americans – especially the minority community ... Scores of people thanked Mr. Innis and I for both the information we shared and our presence at the rally.</font>

<span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">They recognized that the findings of a new report on the economic and employment impact of current CO2 restrictions endorsed by the EPA will be detrimental to all Americans. The study I am referencing estimates that the <b>US GDP will be reduced by at least $500 billion over the next two decades </b>by this one factor alone. This translates into the loss millions of jobs over the next 10 years. Third, there will also be a significant reduction in the average household income but it will regressively affect poor and lower middle class families the most.</font></span></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 102);">Jackson's "findings" come out of <a target="_blank" href="http://www.affordablepoweralliance.org/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=yXQwPRYFUF8%3d&tabid=40">this study</a> prepared for his Affordable Energy Alliance by an organization called<b> Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI</b>) </span><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">which "provides economic, financial, energy, and environmental research services and litigation support to clients in private industry."</span></font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">And who might some of those <a target="_blank" href="http://misi-net.com/private.html">private industry clients</a> be, you ask:</font></p>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style=""><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);"><b>American Electric Power</b> Company</span>
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Bruce Power, LP</span>

<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Chesapeake Energy</b>
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Commonwealth Edison</span>
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Energy Corporation of America</span>
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Energy Resources International, Inc.</span>

<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ExxonMobil</b>
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Ontario Power Generation, Inc.</span>

<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">Peabody Energy

The Southern Company</b>
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Washington Gas Company</span>

<b style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 51);">World Oil Magazine</b></font></p>

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<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">So MISI produced a report on behalf of the Affordable Energy Alliance finding that carbon dioxide restrictions and other environmental regulations would be detrimental to the nation's poor. </font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Presumably, the fact that MISI also just so happens to provide research and litigation services to several energy companies is purely coincidental.</font></p>

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<h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Filed Under</font></h3>

<h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Organizations:</font></h3>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/affordable-energy-alliance">Affordable Energy Alliance</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/organizations/townhall">Townhall</a></font></div>

<h3><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">People:</font></h3>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/harry-jackson">Harry Jackson</a>, <a href="http://www.rightwingwatch.org/category/people/niger-innis">Niger Innis</a></font></div>

<p><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==

cv looks sorta legit

Dr. Bezdek has over 30 years experience in the energy, utility, environmental, and regulatory areas, serving in private industry, academia, and the Federal government, and is the founder and president of MISI – a Washington, D.C.-based economic, energy, and environmental research firm. His background includes energy R&D, technology, and markets; oil, coal, natural gas, renewable, and nuclear energy analyses.

Dr. Bezdek has served as Corporate Director, Corporate President and CEO, University Professor, Research Director in ERDA/DOE, Research Director in the U.S. Treasury Department, Senior Advisor in the Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. energy and environmental delegate to the European Community and to NATO, and as a participant in the U.S. State Department AMPART program. He has served as a consultant to the White House, the Office of Al Gore, Federal and state government agencies, and various corporations and research organizations, including NSF, NASA, DOE, DOD, EPA, NHSTA, Lockheed Martin, IBM, Goldman Sachs, Raytheon, Peabody Energy, J.P. Morgan Chase, Greenpeace, Ontario Power Generation, British Aerospace, American Solar Energy Society, the Rockefeller Foundation, UN Environmental Program, Pew Charitable Trusts, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Electric Power Research Institute, Eastman Kodak, Edison Electric Institute, Georgetown Climate Center, and Nuclear Energy Institute. During 2003/04, he served on the select Federal Task Force charged with rebuilding the economy of Iraq. He is active with the U.S. National Academies of Science, and has served on numerous NAS committees, including, most recently, the joint NAS/Chinese Academy of Sciences Committee on U.S.-Chinese Energy Cooperation and the NAS Committee on Fuel Economy of Medium and Heavy Duty Vehicles. <b>During 2008, he presented energy briefings to the staffs of Senators Barack Obama, John McCain, and Hillary Clinton.</b>

He is the author of 6 books and over 300 published articles.---

http://www.<b>washingtoncoalclub</b>.org/docs/Bio_DrBezdek.pdf</font></p><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">

The Washington Coal Club (WCC) is a District of Columbia non-profit corporation, that meets monthly with knowledgeable speakers to discuss coal and industry related topics. The Club's membership consists of over 300 individuals with diverse interests in coal, ranging from coal producers and transporters, legislators - both Federal and State, associations focused on coal's role in the American economy, academics involved in coal-related research, and policy makers from both the executive and legislative branches of government. Visitors are welcome to participate in our programs. Email Anne Jacob <a href="mailto:ajacob@nma.org">ajacob@nma.org</a> to be added to the membership list.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">

</font><h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Annual Achievement Award</font></h2>

 </font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2013</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Honorable Joe Manchin III, U.S. Senate</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2012</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Honorable Ed Whitfield, U.S. House of Representatives</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2011</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Honorable David McKinley, U.S. House of Representatives

The Honorable Hal Rogers, U.S. House of Representatives</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2010</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Jason Altmire, U.S. House of Representatives

The Honorable Shelley Moore Capito, U.S. House of Representatives</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2009</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Franz Wuerfmannsdobler, Senate Energy & Water Appropriations Subcommittee</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2008</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable <b>Byron L. Dorgan, U.S. Senate</b></font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2007</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Carl Bauer, Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2006</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Chcuk Hagel, U.S. Senate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2005</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Pete V. <b>Domenici,</b> U.S. Senate

The Honorable <b>Joe Barton</b>, U.S. House of Representatives</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2004</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Jack N. Gerard, President and Chief Executive Officer, National Mining Association

The Honorable James M. <b>Inhofe,</b> U.S. Senate</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2003</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Robert G. Card, Under Secretary for Energy, Science and Environment, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2002</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Loretta Beaumont and Peter Kiefhaber, House and Senate Congressional Staffers</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2001</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Rita Bajura – Director, National Energy Technology Laboratory, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2000</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No Awardee</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1999</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">George Rudins – Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of Coal & Power Systems, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1998</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Alan Mollohan, West Virginia</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1997</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Girard Anderson, President, Teco Energy, Inc.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1996</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Barbara Wainman, Assistant to Congressman Ralph Regula</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1995</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">C. Lowell Miller, Director, Office of Coal & Power Systems, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1994 </font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sun Chun and Tom Bechtel, Pittsburgh Energy Technology Center/Morgantown Energy Technology Center, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1993</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Ben Yamagata, Executive Director, Clean Coal Coalition</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1992</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Jack Murtha, Pennsylvania</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1991</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Kurt Yeager, Senior Vice President, Electric Power Research Institute</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1990</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert Kripowicz and Charles Estes, Appropriation Staffers</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1989</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard Lawson, President, National Mining Association</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1988</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Ralph Regula, Ohio</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1987</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"> Alan Wampler, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1986</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">William Marx, President, Council of Industrial Boiler Owners</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1985</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Robert Byrd, West Virginia</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1984</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Richard Trumka, President, United Mine Workers</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1983</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Carl Bagge, President, National Coal Association</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1982</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sam Esleeck, General Manager, Babcock & Wilcox</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

<h2><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Senator Jennings Randolph Award</font></h2>

</td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2013</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Michael B. Enzi, U.S. Senate

Richard A. Bajura, Director, National Research Center for Coal and Energy, West Virginia University</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2012</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Tim Holden, U.S. House of Representatives

Mr. Victor Der, Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2011</font></td><td>

<p><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Dr. Janos Beer, Professor Chemical & Fuel Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

The Honorable Kent Conrad, U.S. Senate</font></p>

</td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2010</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Christopher "Kit" Bond, U.S. Senate

The Honorable Jim Bunning, U.S. Senate </font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2009</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable George V. Voinovich, U.S. Senate

James F. Roberts, Alpha Natural Resources </font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2008</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Donald L. Bauer, DL Bauer Consulting LLC

Lowell Miller, Office of Sequestration, Hydrogen and Clean Coal Fuels, Office of Clean Coal, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2007</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Susan Carver, National Mining Association

George Rudins, U.S. DOE Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy (Ret.) </font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2006</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Frank Burke, Senior Science Advisor, CONSOL Energy Inc.

Connie Holmes, Senior Economist and Director of International Policy, National Mining Association </font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2005</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No Awardee</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2004</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Glen A. Barton, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer (retired), Caterpillar Inc.</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2003</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No Awardee</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2002</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">James Markowsky, American Electric Power (retired)</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2001</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No Awardee</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">2000</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Ralph Regula, Ohio

General Richard Lawson, National Mining Association</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1999</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">No Awardee</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1998</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Honorable Robert Byrd, West Virginia</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1996</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Robert Jimeson, Consultant</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1995</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sam Esleeck, General Manager, Babcock & Wilcox</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1989</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">George Fumich, Assistant Secretary for Fossil Energy, Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy</font></td></tr><tr><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">1987</font></td><td><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Senator Jennings Randolph, West Virginia</font></td></tr></tbody></table>

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<div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">http://www.misi-net.com/trade.html</font></div>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI) provides economic, financial, energy, and environmental research services and litigation support to trade and professional associations. Associations served include:

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<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Affordable Power Alliance</span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>American Chemical Society</b></span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>American Coalition for Clean Coal Energy</b></span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>American Nuclear Energy Congress</b></span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">American Nuclear Society</span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">American <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Solar Energy Society</span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Americans for Balanced Energy Choices</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Associated Builders and Contractors</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Biotechnology Industry Organization</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The Business Roundtable</b></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The Conference Board</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Eagle Alliance</span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Edison Electric Institute</b></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Interstate Renewable Energy Council</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4" style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">National Black Chamber of Commerce</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>National Coal Council</b></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">National Energy Management Institute</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">National Institute for Latino Development</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">National Institute of Building Sciences</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Natural Resources Defense Council</span></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>NextGen </b>Energy Council</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nuclear Energy Institute</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Sustainable Industries Building Council</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Texas Association of Mexican American Chambers of Commerce</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>U.S. Chamber of Commerce</b></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Western<b> Business Roundtable</b></font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Window and Door Manufacturers Association</font></li>

<li style=""><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Wisconsin Manufacturers and Commerce</font></li>

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<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="699"><tbody><tr><td class="content" valign="top" width="400" style=""><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="/eeb03b9a-f019-579a-ba02-4a8f90bd9b7a.gif"/> <b>Private Industry</b>

Management Information Services, Inc. (MISI) provides economic, financial, energy, and environmental research services and litigation support to clients in private industry. Industry clients served include:

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<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">A.D. Little, Inc.</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>American Electric Power Company</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Autochem, North America</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>BAE Systems</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Battelle Corporation</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Bruce Power, LP</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Chesapeake Energy</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Commonwealth Edison</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Davies Associates, LLC</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">DeMatteo Monness</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Eastman Kodak Company</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Elliott Management </span>Corporation</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Energy Corporation of America</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Energy Resources International, Inc.</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Fennemore Craig, P.C.</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Goldman Sachs</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Gowling Lafleur Henderson, LLP</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Grant Thornton, International</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Hunton & Williams, </span>LLP</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">IBM Corporation</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">ITOCHU Corporation</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">J.D. Power & Associates</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>J.P. Morgan Chase</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Lewis and Greer, LLC</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Lockheed Martin</b> Corporation</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">MACTEC, Inc.</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Management Analysis Company</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Marstel-Day, LLC</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Moye White, LLP</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Nissequogue COGEN Partners</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Ontario Power Generation, Inc.</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Opinion Research Corporation/MACRO, International</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><b>Peabody Energy</b></span></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Private Fuel Storage, LLC</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The RAND Corporation</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Raytheon</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Shaw Pittman, LLC</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Sidley Austin, LLP</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>The <span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Southern</span> Company</b></font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Stone and Webster</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Telecommunications Technology Corporation</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Textron</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Washington Gas Company</font></li>

<li><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">World Oil Magazine</font></li>

</ul>

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<div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">==

https://www.uschamber.com/sites/default/files/legacy/issues/environment/files/Ex%2013_Declaration%20of%20Roger%20Bezdek.pdf

CoC testimony?

...

Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois (Urbana)

</font><div data-canvas-width="28.000000000000004" style="left: 120px; top: 946.28px; transform: scaleX(1.0084);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">3.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="448.24" style="left: 180px; top: 946.28px; transform: scaleX(1.0042);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">I prepared this Declaration and the attached study.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="728.6" style="left: 180px; top: 992.28px; transform: scaleX(0.961066);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">As demonstrated in the attached study, in recent months, EPA has taken four</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.8" style="left: 120px; top: 1015.28px; transform: scaleX(0.949138);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">related actions that, taken together, trigger PSD applicability for GHG sources on and</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.4" style="left: 120px; top: 1038.28px; transform: scaleX(0.944012);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">after January 2, 2011. These actions, the Endangerment Finding, the Johnson Memo</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="786.5999999999997" style="left: 120px; top: 1061.28px; transform: scaleX(1.02178);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Reconsideration, the <b>Tailpipe Rule</b>, and the Tailoring Rule, will affect numerous entities</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="785.7999999999997" style="left: 120px; top: 1084.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00296);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">and lead to the most comprehensive, restrictive, and intrusive environmental regulations</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="790.7999999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 1107.28px; transform: scaleX(0.994508);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">in U.S. history. A major impact of such regulations would be restrictions on the</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="786.9999999999997" style="left: 120px; top: 1130.28px; transform: scaleX(1.02932);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">availability and increases in the prices of fossil fuels. The economic impacts would be</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.3999999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 1153.28px; transform: scaleX(0.946072);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">serious, and this report analyzes the likely economic, employment, and energy market</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="467.51999999999987" style="left: 120px; top: 118.28px; transform: scaleX(1.02209);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>impacts of EPA GHG control regulations on low</b></font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="324.85499999999996" style="left: 587.4px; top: 118.28px; transform: scaleX(1.02338);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>-income groups, the elderly, and</b></font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="91.32" style="left: 120px; top: 141.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00205);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>minorities.</b></font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="403.4399999999999" style="left: 180px; top: 187.28px; transform: scaleX(1.03841);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The study’s major finding is that the CO</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="315.3966666666666" style="left: 590.8px; top: 187.28px; transform: scaleX(1.0223);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">restrictions implied in the EPA</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.5999999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 210.28px; transform: scaleX(0.952646);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">regulations would have serious economic, employment, and energy market impacts at</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="414.71999999999997" style="left: 120px; top: 233.28px; transform: scaleX(0.935388);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">the national level and that the impacts on low</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="372.85499999999985" style="left: 534.6px; top: 233.28px; transform: scaleX(0.948781);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-income groups, the elderly, Blacks, and</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="789.3999999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 256.28px; transform: scaleX(0.973566);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Hispanics </b>would be especially severe. The EPA regulations will impact low income</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="489.03999999999985" style="left: 120px; top: 279.28px; transform: scaleX(0.990394);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">groups, the elderly, and minorities disproportionately,</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="296.8966666666666" style="left: 609px; top: 279.28px; transform: scaleX(0.95768);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">both because they have lower</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="788.6" style="left: 120px; top: 302.28px; transform: scaleX(0.957756);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">incomes to begin with, but also because they have to spend proportionately more of</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="738.2399999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 325.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00248);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">their incomes on energy, and rising energy costs inflict great harm on these groups.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="727.3999999999997" style="left: 180px; top: 371.28px; transform: scaleX(0.943205);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>Senior citizens</b> are particularly vulnerable to energy price increases due to their</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="785.5999999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 394.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00125);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">relatively low incomes, and older consumers with the lowest incomes will experience the</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="786.1999999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 417.28px; transform: scaleX(1.01262);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">greatest cost burdens from the EPA regulations. Large percentages of the elderly have</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="786.5999999999996" style="left: 120px; top: 440.28px; transform: scaleX(1.01545);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">high energy burdens, and low income senior citizens dependent primarily on retirement</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="791.8" style="left: 120px; top: 463.28px; transform: scaleX(1.01074);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">income have especially high energy burdens. Thus, the greatest burdens of the</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.5999999999996" style="left: 120px; top: 486.28px; transform: scaleX(0.948002);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">increased energy costs resulting from EPA GHG regulations will fall on households of</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="329.55999999999995" style="left: 120px; top: 509.28px; transform: scaleX(0.991854);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">elderly Social Security recipients –</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="404.1599999999999" style="left: 454.4px; top: 509.28px; transform: scaleX(0.988368);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">more than 20 percent of all households --</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="789.9999999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 532.28px; transform: scaleX(0.9833);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">depend mainly on fixed incomes, with limited opportunity to increase earnings from</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="120.15999999999997" style="left: 120px; top: 555.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00119);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">employment.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="510.3949999999998" style="left: 255.4px; top: 601.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00061);"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-income elderly are particularly susceptible to weather</font></span></div>

<div data-canvas-width="145.45499999999998" style="left: 765.6px; top: 601.28px; transform: scaleX(0.999119);"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-related illness </font></span></div>

<div data-canvas-width="170.48" style="left: 120px; top: 624.28px; transform: scaleX(0.970935);"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">such as potentially</font></span></div>

<div data-canvas-width="610.1149999999999" style="left: 290.2px; top: 624.28px; transform: scaleX(0.958195);"><span style=" background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-fatal hypothermia, and a high energy burden can represent a life-</font></span></div>

<div data-canvas-width="566.66" style="left: 120px; top: 647.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00176);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">threatening challenge. Given their susceptibility to temperature-</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="219" style="left: 686.6px; top: 647.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00023);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">related illnesses, elderly</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="794.7999999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 670.28px; transform: scaleX(0.962674);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">households require more energy to keep their homes at a reasonable comfort level.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="470.7599999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 693.28px; transform: scaleX(0.965794);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Implementation of the EPA GHG regulations would</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="314.79999999999995" style="left: 593.2px; top: 693.28px; transform: scaleX(0.953795);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">place many elderly households at</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="786.9999999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 716.28px; transform: scaleX(1.03085);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">serious risk by forcing them to heat and cool their homes at levels that are inadequate</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="231.44" style="left: 120px; top: 739.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00125);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">for maintenance of health.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="725.5999999999999" style="left: 180px; top: 785.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00145);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Over the past decade, home heating costs have been increasing as a result of an</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="789" style="left: 120px; top: 808.28px; transform: scaleX(0.964744);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">overall rise in energy costs, and energy costs have increased more rapidly than the</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="216.11999999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 831.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00233);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">purchasing power of low</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="569.655" style="left: 336px; top: 831.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00321);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">-income consumers. As a result, winter heating costs present a</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="268.35999999999996" style="left: 120px; top: 854.28px; transform: scaleX(0.981685);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">special burden for seniors –</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="517.1999999999997" style="left: 392.6px; top: 854.28px; transform: scaleX(0.977755);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">especially low income seniors, and this burden will be</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="473.8399999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 877.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00404);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">exacerbated by the impending EPA GHG regulations.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="732" style="left: 180px; top: 923.28px; transform: scaleX(1.01766);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Black and Hispanics will be adversely affected threefold by the EPA GHG</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="789.1999999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 946.28px; transform: scaleX(0.966288);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">regulations: Their incomes will be less than they would without the regulation, their</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="590.7599999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 969.28px; transform: scaleX(1.02887);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">rates of unemployment will increase substantially, and it will take</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="194.59999999999997" style="left: 712.4px; top: 969.28px; transform: scaleX(1.04241);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">those who are out of</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="790.8" style="left: 120px; top: 992.28px; transform: scaleX(0.993946);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">work longer to find another job. These impacts on earnings and employment will</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.6000000000001" style="left: 120px; top: 1015.28px; transform: scaleX(0.938848);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">increase the rates of poverty among Blacks and Hispanics, and one of the impacts of</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="472.6399999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 1038.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00384);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">implementing the EPA regulations will be to, by 2025:</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="606.2" style="left: 240px; top: 1085.68px; transform: scaleX(1.0121);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Increase the poverty rate for Hispanics from 23 percent to about 28</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="606.8" style="left: 240px; top: 1108.48px; transform: scaleX(1.02445);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">percent. This represents an increase in Hispanic poverty of nearly</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="100.24" style="left: 240px; top: 1131.48px; transform: scaleX(1.00223);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">22 percent.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="608.6" style="left: 240px; top: 119.68px; transform: scaleX(0.954292);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Increase the poverty rate for Blacks from 24 percent to about 30</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="605.56" style="left: 240px; top: 142.68px; transform: scaleX(1.03024);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">percent. This represents an increase in Black poverty of 20</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="72.44" style="left: 240px; top: 165.68px; transform: scaleX(1.00286);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">percent.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="727.3999999999995" style="left: 180px; top: 211.68px; transform: scaleX(0.935643);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The added costs that will result from the EPA regulations will reduce Black and</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="559.2399999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 234.68px; transform: scaleX(1.00037);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hispanic household incomes by increasing amounts each year:</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="606.3999999999999" style="left: 240px; top: 282.08px; transform: scaleX(1.01416);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2015, Black median household income will decrease about $550</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="611.2" style="left: 240px; top: 304.88px; transform: scaleX(1.00441);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">compared to the reference case (which assumes that the EPA</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="607.1999999999998" style="left: 240px; top: 327.88px; transform: scaleX(1.02308);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">regulations are not implemented), and Hispanic median household</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="529.4399999999998" style="left: 240px; top: 350.88px; transform: scaleX(1.00083);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">income will decrease $630 compared to the reference case.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="607.7999999999997" style="left: 240px; top: 375.28px; transform: scaleX(0.943008);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2025, Black median household income will be nearly $600 less</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="610.1999999999998" style="left: 240px; top: 398.28px; transform: scaleX(0.987592);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">than under the reference case, and Hispanic median household</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="550.8399999999999" style="left: 240px; top: 421.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00131);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">income will be about $660 less than under the reference case.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="609.1999999999998" style="left: 240px; top: 445.68px; transform: scaleX(0.968573);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2035, Black median household income will be $700 less than</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="607" style="left: 240px; top: 468.68px; transform: scaleX(1.02278);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">under the reference case, and Hispanic median household income</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="346.3599999999999" style="left: 240px; top: 516.08px; transform: scaleX(0.971012);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The cumulative loss in Black median</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="259.19999999999993" style="left: 589.8px; top: 516.08px; transform: scaleX(0.967826);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">household income over the</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="111.20000000000002" style="left: 240px; top: 539.08px; transform: scaleX(1.00045);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">period 2012</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="248.92000000000004" style="left: 351.4px; top: 539.08px; transform: scaleX(0.961267);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">– 2035 will exceed $13,000.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="605.7999999999998" style="left: 240px; top: 563.48px; transform: scaleX(1.0057);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The<b> cumulative loss in Hispanic median household income over the</b></font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="111.20000000000002" style="left: 240px; top: 586.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00045);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>period 2012</b></font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="248.92000000000004" style="left: 351.4px; top: 586.28px; transform: scaleX(0.961267);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><b>– 2035 will exceed $15,000.</b></font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="725.56" style="left: 180px; top: 632.28px; transform: scaleX(1.01591);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Implementation of the EPA regulations would result in the loss of an increasingly</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="363.8399999999999" style="left: 120px; top: 655.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00116);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">large number of Black and Hispanic jobs:</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="611" style="left: 240px; top: 702.68px; transform: scaleX(0.997904);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2015, 180,000 Black jobs would be lost and nearly 250,000</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="247.03999999999996" style="left: 240px; top: 725.68px; transform: scaleX(1.00124);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hispanic jobs would be lost.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="608.7999999999997" style="left: 240px; top: 750.08px; transform: scaleX(0.957835);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2025, more than 300,000 Black jobs would be lost and nearly</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="325.0400000000001" style="left: 240px; top: 773.08px; transform: scaleX(1.00156);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">400,000 Hispanic jobs would be lost.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="612.7999999999997" style="left: 240px; top: 797.48px; transform: scaleX(1.03078);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In 2030, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">nearly 390,000 Black jobs would be lost and nearly</span></font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="325.0400000000001" style="left: 240px; top: 820.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00156);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">500,000 Hispanic jobs would be lost</span>.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="731.7999999999996" style="left: 180px; top: 866.28px; transform: scaleX(1.01524);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The EPA regulation will likely have a doubly negative impact on the living</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="311.63999999999993" style="left: 120px; top: 889.28px; transform: scaleX(1.00152);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">standards of Blacks and Hispanics:</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="563.8399999999999" style="left: 240px; top: 936.68px; transform: scaleX(1.00069);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">First, the regulations will decrease Black and Hispanic incomes.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="606.3999999999999" style="left: 240px; top: 961.08px; transform: scaleX(1.01614);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Second, they will increase the costs of the basic goods upon which</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="507.03999999999985" style="left: 240px; top: 984.08px; transform: scaleX(1.00054);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Blacks and Hispanics must spend their reduced incomes.</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="540.0599999999998" style="left: 180px; top: 1030.08px; transform: scaleX(0.936493);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In the face of reduced incomes and rising prices, the trade-</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="179.8" style="left: 720px; top: 1030.08px; transform: scaleX(0.942595);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">offs that Blacks and</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.7999999999997" style="left: 120px; top: 1053.08px; transform: scaleX(0.956668);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Hispanics will face involve reallocating spending between food, clothing, housing, and</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="787.9999999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 1076.08px; transform: scaleX(0.95104);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">heat. Implementing the EPA regulations will force Blacks and Hispanics to spend an</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="475.56000000000006" style="left: 120px; top: 1099.08px; transform: scaleX(1.01165);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">even more disproportionate share of their incomes --</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="309.99999999999994" style="left: 596.2px; top: 1099.08px; transform: scaleX(1.01423);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">which will have been reduced due</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="222.39999999999998" style="left: 120px; top: 1122.08px; transform: scaleX(0.95478);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">to the effects of the CO</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="92.49000000000001" style="left: 349.8px; top: 1122.08px; transform: scaleX(0.945867);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">restriction</font></div>

<div data-canvas-width="457.2766666666666" style="left: 445.4px; top: 1122.08px; transform: scaleX(0.949002);"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">s -- on basic necessities. Finally, the cumulative</font></div>

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