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Randy Eminger serves as the executive director of the Energy Policy Network. As the former Regional Vice President for the <b>American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity,</b> Randy Eminger oversaw government relations activities in 11 southern states.<div class="vc_empty_space" style="background: transparent; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; height: 28px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span class="vc_empty_space_inner" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; background: transparent;" /></font></div><div class="wpb_text_column wpb_content_element wpb_animate_when_almost_visible wpb_bottom-to-top bottom-to-top wpb_start_animation animated" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; opacity: 1; animation: 1s ease 0s 1 normal none running wpb_btt;"><div class="wpb_wrapper" style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><p style="background: transparent; margin: 0px 0px 1.75em; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">His responsibilities included developing policy positions, forming coalitions, activating grassroots initiatives, and conducting outreach to state, regional, and national policy organizations. Prior to working at ACCCE, Randy was the Director of State Affairs at<b> Southwestern Public Service Co.</b></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">Over the past decade, Randy served as an officer and on the boards of numerous regional and state energy associations, including the Southern States Energy Board, <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Center for Legislative Energy and Environmental Research, </span>Balanced Energy Arkansas, and the <b>Clean Carbon Technology Foundation of Texas.</b></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">----</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">widgets no grafs</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">
</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">FEDERAL REGULATORY ACTIONS</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">Energy Policy Network > Federal Regulatory Actions</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">In recent years, the U.S. has seen a major increase in federal regulations, with the imposition of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">229 major regulations since 2009 at a cost of $108 billion annually.</span></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">229</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">major regulations since 2009</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">108</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">billion dollars annually</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The U.S. energy sector faces an increasing amount of u<b>ncertainty from these intrusive and disruptive federal regulatory initiatives, </b><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">which threaten to destabilize the electricity market, impose a heavy burden on ratepayers and negatively affect the economy.</span> <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">These regulations are being proposed despite the fact that energy-related CO2 emissions for the first six months of 2016 were at their lowest since 1991.</span></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">
</span></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">[cites legit src: </span><a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=28312">https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=28312</a></font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">but mild weather and cut in coal and nat gas use [b/c of regs?]</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">57</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">FIPs under Obama Administration</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">5</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">FIPs under prior three Presidents</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">
</font></p><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><p style="background-image: initial; background-position: initial; background-size: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><font face="Times New Roman" size="4">The <b>Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) accounted for nine of the 43 new major rules in 2015, increasing annual regulatory costs by $11.1 billion</b>. The EPA has also dramatically increased the number of <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Federal Implementation Plans (FIP)</span> it has issued to states since the Obama Administration took office. Over the three prior Presidents, there were a total of five FIPs issued. Under the Obama administration, 57 FIPs were issued.</font></p></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">=</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">vs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">
</font></div><div><span class="date" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; line-height: 18px; text-transform: uppercase; float: left;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">APR 14, 2022</font></span><h1 style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 16px 0px 6px; border-width: 0px 0px 1px; border-top-style: initial; border-right-style: initial; border-bottom-style: solid; border-left-style: initial; border-top-color: initial; border-right-color: initial; border-bottom-color: rgb(218, 218, 218); border-left-color: initial; border-image: initial; font-weight: normal; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1; clear: both;"><a href="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=52038" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" color="#000000">Wind was second-largest source of U.S. electricity generation on March 29</font></a></h1><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><img src="https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/images/2022.04.14/main.svg" alt="daily U.S. electricity generation from selected sources" border="0" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" /></font><div class="source" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; display: inline-block; float: left; line-height: 12.1px;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style=""><strong style="font-style: inherit;">Source:</strong><span style="font-style: inherit;"> U.S. Energy Information Administration, </span><a href="https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: inherit; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Hourly Electric Grid Monitor</span></a></font></span></div><hr style="background: rgb(221, 221, 221); clear: both; float: none; width: 614px; height: 1px; margin: 0px; border: none;" /><p style="margin: 0px; padding: 8px 0px 10px; border: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.3em;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">On Tuesday, March 29, wind turbines in the Lower 48 states produced 2,017 gigawatthours (GWh) of electricity, making wind the second-largest source of electric generation for the day, only behind natural gas, according to our <a href="https://www.eia.gov/electricity/gridmonitor" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: inherit; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; text-decoration-line: none; background-image: inherit; background-position: inherit; background-size: inherit; background-repeat: inherit; background-attachment: inherit; background-origin: inherit; background-clip: inherit;"><span style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;">Hourly Electric Grid Monitor</span></a>. <b>Daily wind-powered electricity had surpassed coal-fired and nuclear electricity generation separately on other days earlier this year but had not surpassed both sources on a single day.</b></font></p></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="">=</font></div><div><font face="Times New Roman" size="4"><a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/28/alecs-annual-meeting-queues-up-fights-over-federal-powers-fossil-fuels-big-tech-labor-rights-and-the-gops-culture-wars/">https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2021/07/28/alecs-annual-meeting-queues-up-fights-over-federal-powers-fossil-fuels-big-tech-labor-rights-and-the-gops-culture-wars/</a></font></div><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">...</font></strong></h2><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom"><strong><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Special Program to Work on Radical Rewrite of U.S. Constitution</font></strong></h2><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ALEC is extending its conference well into the evening on Friday this year to hold an "interactive academy" on rewriting the U.S. Constitution</span>. Attendees will "learn how an Article V amendments convention will actually play out," and "cast their ballots to decide which ideas to pursue," an <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21018436-alec-academy-article-v-and-bba-tickets-fri-jul-30-2021" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">invite</a> obtained by CMD details.</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><b><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">One of the goals of the tutorial appears to be to convince lawmakers that a runaway convention can be prevented, despite expert opinions that this is impossible.</font></b></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">"Once you have the convention, it is subject to nobody's control," Georgetown University Law Professor David Super <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-constitutions-scott-walker-politics-business-0079f922a810f82336a64b4ac6a3a214" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">told</a> the AP. "It makes its own agenda. It makes its own voting rules that decides how long it lasts and how far it goes</span>."</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>At the 2020 Annual Meeting, former Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker (R) <a href="https://apnews.com/article/wisconsin-constitutions-scott-walker-politics-business-0079f922a810f82336a64b4ac6a3a214" style="text-decoration-line: none; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">detailed</a> a legal strategy to force a convention to rewrite the nation's founding document even though at the time only 28 of 34 states needed had resolutions calling for one pending</b>. </font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Former State Rep. Ken Ivory (R-UT) will moderate the event, while<b> U.S. Rep. Yvette Herrell, </b>Prof. Robert Natelson, David Biddulph, former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker, and Dr. Barry Poulson will present.</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEC is already pushing constitutional convention calls for a balanced budget amendment and sweeping new limits on federal powers, but meeting attendees will also have the opportunity to consider <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">a newly proposed convention call for a package of tax and fiscal reforms, including "abolishing the existing Internal Revenue Code," called the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/application-under-article-v-of-the-u-s-constitution-to-propose-an-amendment-to-require-fiscal-limitations-and-accountability-for-the-legislative-and-executive-branches-of-the-national-government/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Application Under Article V of the U.S. Constitution to Propose an Amendment to Require Fiscal Limitations and Accountability for the Legislative and Executive Branches of the National Government</a>. </span></font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">The model application also seeks to combine the states that pass it with other balanced budget amendment convention calls in an attempt to reach the 34 states needed to convene a constitutional convention.</font></p><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom"><strong><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Protecting Fossil Fuel Interests and Other Climate Harming Measures</font></strong></h2><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">ALEC politicians will once again consider model bills to protect fossil fuel interests and polluters.</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">Meeting attendees will debate a number of <b>policies framed around ending "energy discrimination." </b>The radical <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/energy-discrimination-elimination-act/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Energy Discrimination Elimination Act</a> would punish financial institutions and other companies that cease to do business with fossil fuel companies by barring the state from investing in them and denying them state business. The policy also includes an anti-boycott measure which prohibits government contractors from boycotting energy companies, even asking for "written verification" from companies stating that they "will not boycott energy companies during the term of the contract."</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">This model, as well as the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/affordable-abundant-reliable-electricity-act/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Affordable, Abundant, Reliable Electricity Act</a>, which seeks to protect all energy producers in the name of maintaining a reliable electrical grid, are being lobbied for by <b>Randy Eminger, </b>executive director of the Energy Policy Network,</span> an <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21018441-alec-model-bills-supporting-coal-based-power-email-from-coal-lobbyist-june-24-2021" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">email</a> obtained by CMD details.</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">An advocate for "</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 102, 0);">clean coal," Eminger describes his mission at Energy Policy Network</span><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> as, "to support the continued use of coal-fueled power," in the email, and notes that "four other comrades from the industry" will be at the ALEC conference as well.</span></font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">In keeping with ALEC's <a href="https://www.exposedbycmd.org/2018/07/12/alec-extreme-exxon-long-term-alec-board-member-dumps-alec-climate-denial-policy%e2%80%8b/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">climate-denial history</a> and pay-to-play work for fossil fuel giants, ALEC lawmakers will also vote on resolutions to <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/resolution-supporting-reliable-and-affordable-energy/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">oppose any government action to reduce carbon dioxide emissions</a>, and <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/resolution-to-protect-market-access-for-all-electricity-generators/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">oppose any restrictions on the use of fossil fuels to produce electricity</a>.</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 204, 102);">Indeed, ALEC is even proposing a model bill, the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/safeguarding-greenhouse-gas-regulatory-authority-act/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Safeguarding Greenhouse Gas Regulatory Authority Act</a>, to bar any state agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions or entering into any regional compact without "specific legislative authorization.”</span> </font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);" size="4" face="Times New Roman">The <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/resolution-urging-states-to-establish-electric-vehicle-charging-stations-as-a-competitive-market-free-from-utility-commission-regulation/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Resolution Urging States to Establish<b> Electric Vehicle</b> Charging Stations as a Competitive Market Free From Utility Commission Regulation</a> urges state utility commissions to forbid "regulated utilities from using electric customer funds to build its own fleet of electric charging stations," thereby removing crucial funds to expand the infrastructure a larger fleet of electric cars will need in the future. This will have the intended consequence of forcing people to continue driving gas-guzzling vehicles for longer than necessary.</font></p><p style="margin: 1.5em 0px; font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" font-size="font-size" large="large" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 153, 0);">ALEC is also introducing another preemption model bill around plastics, the <a href="https://www.alec.org/model-policy/act-to-establish-statewide-uniformity-for-essential-plastic-regulations/" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">Act to Establish Statewide Uniformity for Essential Plastic Regulations</a>. Spun as a policy to ensure "essential" plastic products are available, the proposed bill would bar municipalities from banning or taxing plastic food wrappers and plastic water bottles.</span> The measure follows a 2015 <b>American City County Exchange</b> (an ALEC offshoot) <a href="https://www.prwatch.org/news/2016/03/13060/barring-plastic-bag-bans-another-alec-bill-takes-aim-local-democracy" style="text-decoration-line: none; font-weight: bold; outline: none; box-shadow: rgb(204, 51, 51) 0px 3px 0px 0px; transition: all 500ms ease-in-out 0s;">resolution</a> that calls on local government not to regulate many <b>single-use products, </b>including, "reusable bags, disposable bags, boxes, cups, and bottles that are made of cloth, paper, plastic, extruded polystyrene, or similar materials."</font></p><h2 style="font-family: " times="Times" new="New" roman="Roman" word-spacing="word-spacing" px="px" background-color="background-color" rgb="rgb" line-height="line-height" em="em" margin-top="margin-top" margin-bottom="margin-bottom"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Regulating Big Tech?...</font></span></h2><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">From: Randy Eminger <randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2021 4:04 PM To: Eric Burlison Cc: 'Michael Gibbons'</randyeminger></font></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></randyeminger></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b> Subject: ALEC model bills supporting Coal-based power Attachments: ALEC - Energy Discrimination Model Bill for 2021.</b>docx; ALEC - Reliable Resilience Electricity Act.docx </font></randyeminger></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></randyeminger></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Sen. Burlison – I’m reaching out to you to 1) introduce myself and 2) let you know that two model bills that you may be interested in, have been introduced for consideration by the<b> ALEC Energy, Environment, and Agriculture Taskforce </b>in <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Salt Lake</span>. As executive director of the Energy Policy Network my mission is to support the continued use of coal-fueled power. </font></randyeminger></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></randyeminger></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">I’ve worked with Mike Gibbons on several issues and he wanted to make sure you were briefed on my initiative at the upcoming ALEC conference. Two model bills (attached) have been <b>introduced a Texas (Rep. Dennis Price) and <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">Arizona legislator (Rep. Chris Finchem)</span>.</b></font></randyeminger></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></randyeminger></div><div><randyeminger gmail.com="gmail.com"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> 1) One deals with financial discrimination being placed on banks and lending institutions that loan funds to fossil fuel companies. 2) The second one addresses the need for maintaining a reliable and resilient electric grid. We could use your help in promoting these two model bills. I will be in Salt Lake along with four other comrades from industry. I would welcome meeting you and grabbing a cup of coffee. Randy Eminger Executive Director Energy Policy Network<b> (806) 674-7079</b></font></randyeminger></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>aFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, AND RESILIENT ELECTRICITY ACT</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Policy Status</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Type: Model Policy Status: Final Date Introduced: July 29, 2021 Date Finalized: August 25, 2021</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Issues</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Task Forces</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Energy, Environment and Agriculture</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
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</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">Summary</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>AN ACT directing the electric utility regulatory agency to develop rules and procedures promoting an affordable, reliable and resilient electric grid that meets peak net load and peak demand, including during extreme weather events.[ercot wind texas?]</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><b>
</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">AFFORDABLE, RELIABLE, AND RESILIENT ELECTRICITY ACT</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"> </font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">SECTION 1. DEFINITIONS</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Affordable” means that the lowest cost means of providing electricity is used, <b>factoring in the true and total cost of each generation source.[THEY DON'T MEAN CANCER AND RESP DISEASE]</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Reliable” means that load shedding events are extremely rare and that there are no system wide power shortages or <b>brownouts for more than a few hours once every 10 years.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">• “On demand power” otherwise known as “dispatchable” power, means electricity from sources whose output is <b>not weather dependent </b>and can be controlled to meet changes in demand.[COAL NUKE ANGA]</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Intermittent generation”, also known as non-dispatchable power, means electric generation that that varies minute-to-minute based on weather conditions.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Firming power” means <b>electric systems that provide at least 48 hours of back-up power</b> to “firm” intermittent generation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Peak net load” is the estimated peak demand minus the minimum predicted level of intermittent generation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">• “Reserve margin” means the amount of on-demand and firming power needed to meet peak net load.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">MODEL LEGISLATION</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">1. The electric utility regulatory agency shall develop rules and procedures to ensure that the electric grid within the state, or to which the state’s grid is interconnected, is affordable, reliable, and resilient.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">2. The grid will be considered affordable, reliable, and resilient if:</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">a. Electricity is provided with the lowest total cost factoring in the <span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 102);">true and total cost of competing power generation resources, including the fiscal costs of <b>direct and indirect subsidies,</b> and the <b>cost of transmission[ROOFTOP SOLAR]</b>, firming power, and other system costs necessary</span> to integrate a given generation resource without sacrificing grid reliability or resilience.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">b. It maintains a minimum reserve margin of 15%; and</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">c. Generation resources serving the grid meet continuous operating requirements for summer and winter peaks, including extreme weather events that necessitate on-site fuel storage, dual fuel capability, or fuel supply arrangements to ensure winter performance for several days.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">3. Intermittent generation shall be required to provide firming power up to their average output level during periods of peak net load, and the cost of that firming shall be attributed to or otherwise included in the <b>rate structure consistent with cost-causation principles.</b></font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">4. The minimum reserve margin shall be a primary consideration of the electricity regulatory agency when retiring or adding electric generation.</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">5. That the state (AGENCY) coordinate with regional transmission organizations to ensure and develop policies reflected above which provide reliable, dispatchable power for the region in an effective and consistent manner.</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">
</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">=</font></div></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">off bs</font></div><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman" /><div><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman"><font size="4" face="Times New Roman">lumpy mascot</font></font></font></font></div><div>Home</div><div> </div><div>Energy Policy Network</div><div>COAL FACTSFEDERAL REGULATORY ACTIONSEPN IN ACTIONRESOURCESABOUT US</div><div>EPN IN ACTION</div><div>Energy Policy Network > EPN In Action</div><div>State of Oklahoma shape</div><div>Oklahoma</div><div>Energy Policy Network played a key role in supporting OG&E’s efforts to keep its coal-fueled Sooner Power Plant in operation for decades to come. In June of 2016, the Oklahoma Corporation Commission (OCC) ruled that adding scrubbers to the plant was a better alternative than shutting the plant down or converting it to natural gas.</div><div>
</div><div>Soon after the Sooner Power Station decision, the Sierra Club filed a motion with the Oklahoma Supreme Court to dismiss the OCC decision. The Sierra Club appeal will work its way through the process over the coming months, a ruling is expected in early 2017.</div><div>
</div><div>In the meantime, OG&E continues construction, with well over $100 million invested in the $500 million project. Energy Policy Network continues to monitor the appeal and keep members informed on any potential need for involvement.</div><div>
</div><div>Texas</div><div>Energy Policy Network joined with allies and the State of Texas to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) for Regional Haze.<b> The Powder River Basin</b> provides 53 million tons of coal to Texas annually. EPN argued that if EPA’s Regional Haze FIP were to be enforced, it would cause the shutdown of 3,000 – 8,400 MW of coal-fueled generation.</div><div>
</div><div>On July 15, 2016, 5th Circuit Court handed EPA a double defeat stating that EPA had overstepped its legal authority. The Court issued a ‘stay’ of the FIP and held that the petitioners had demonstrated a likelihood of success on the merits. They also ruled that irreparable harm would occur in the absence of a stay.</div><div>
</div><div>In early December the EPA withdrew its FIP for Texas. As one trade publication reported, “With U.S. EPA headed toward a likely court defeat and unable to reach a deal with opponents, they have decided to pull the plug on a Texas regional haze Federal Implementation Plan.”</div><div>
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</div><div>Arkansas</div><div>Under the leadership of EPN, a diverse group of stakeholders (titled the<b> Arkansas Affordable Energy Coalition) h</b>as come together to oppose the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Regional Haze Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) in Arkansas. The AAEC is made up of a broad-based group of companies and associations interested in maintaining low-cost electricity from coal. The heart of the FIP calls for unnecessary controls on the White Bluff and Independence coal-fueled power plants.</div><div>
</div><div>The <b>FIP was issued despite the fact that Arkansas has demonstrated it is exceeding its “reasonable progress” goal for 2018 and that regional haze has actually declined and visibility has improved in Arkansas since 2004. </b>The most egregious of the mandates would require FGD’s (scrubbers) to be added to both the White Bluff and Independence power plants. The controls for the two plants would cost $2.6 billion and provide virtually no visibility benefit detectable by the human eye. The EPN-led coalition has assessed the economic impact of the FIP and made this information available to the State of Arkansas.</div><div>
</div><div>The central focus of the coalition is to mount a legal challenge to the EPA’s FIP. Accordingly, AAEC timely filed a petition for review of the FIP in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. Six other petitions were also filed, including one by the State of Arkansas. The state and some of the other petitioners have filed petitions with the EPA asking it to stay the FIP pending the outcome of the litigation in the Eighth Circuit. The Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association jointly filed one of the seven petitions for review, arguing that the FIP does not go far enough. All the other petitioners, including the state and AAEC, will argue that the FIP goes too far. The Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association have moved to intervene in all the other cases, including the ones filed by the state and by AAEC.</div><div>
</div><div>Latest Action: <b>Arguing that the FIP does not go far enough, the Sierra Club has sued the EPA.</b> In order to be able to address the issues raised “from the other side” by the Sierra Club and the National Parks Conservation Association, AAEC filed a motion seeking leave to intervene in their case. The deadline for opening briefs to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals is set for February 17, 2017. AAEC will file its intervenor’s brief by May 10, 2017.</div><div>
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