{"id":3454,"date":"2014-06-02T16:39:52","date_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:39:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2014-06-02T16:39:52","modified_gmt":"2014-06-02T20:39:52","slug":"by-the-numbers-the-epas-proposed-new-carbon-pollution-standards-for-power-plants-the-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/therationalprogressive.com\/cms\/2014\/06\/by-the-numbers-the-epas-proposed-new-carbon-pollution-standards-for-power-plants-the-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"By the Numbers: The EPA’s Proposed New Carbon Pollution Standards for Power Plants | The White House"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today, as part of the President\u2019s Climate Action Plan, the EPA proposed new carbon pollution standards for power plants. These standards represent a commonsense proposal that will have huge benefits for all Americans. In fact, for every dollar of investment spurred by this proposal, there is roughly seven dollars\u2019 worth of health benefits in return.<\/p>\n

Here are some numbers that help explain today\u2019s announcement:<\/p>\n

Nearly 40<\/strong><\/span> is the number of percentage points of total carbon pollution that comes from power plants. The President\u2019s Climate Action Plan has focused on modernizing our buildings, factories, cars, and trucks \u2013 but altogether, they make up a little over half of all the carbon pollution. It makes sense, then, that our next logical step would be to modernize the power sector, putting in place the first-ever carbon pollution standards for power plants.<\/p>\n

More than 300<\/strong><\/span> is the number of groups EPA engaged with across the country \u2013 including 11 public listening sessions that hosted more than 3,000 people \u2013 in order to develop its proposal. And the outreach continues. After the proposed rule is published, there will be a 120-day public comment period to make sure the final standards reflect all the best ideas and input from everyone includes states, utilities, labor, health advocates, environmental groups and industry.<\/p>\n

30<\/strong><\/span> is the number of percentage points of total carbon pollution that will be cut from our power sector by 2030 \u2013 relative to 2005 levels. That is like erasing the annual carbon pollution from two-thirds of all cars and trucks in America. And if you add up what we will avoid between 2020 and 2030 under the proposal, it\u2019s more than the carbon pollution from every power plant in America in 2012 \u2013 times two.<\/p>\n

50<\/strong><\/span> is the number of ways the EPA proposal can be implemented; this proposal puts tools in the hands of each state and its governor \u2013 there\u2019s no one-size-fits-all approach here. And let\u2019s remember that the idea of setting higher standards to cut carbon pollution isn\u2019t new. 47 states have utilities that run demand-side energy efficiency programs, 38 have renewable portfolio standards or goals, and 10 have market-based greenhouse gas emissions programs.<\/p>\n

48 to 84 billion<\/strong> <\/span>is the number of dollars of net benefits that the proposal will generate in 2030.<\/p>\n

via By the Numbers: The EPA’s Proposed New Carbon Pollution Standards for Power Plants | The White House<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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