Number
140371
Version
SUBSTITUTE 1
Reference
Sponsor
ALD. BAUMAN, ALD. WITKOWSKI, ALD. KOVAC
Title
Substitute resolution supporting the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan.
Analysis
This resolution expresses the City of Milwaukee’s support for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed Clean Power Plan.
Body
Whereas, At the direction of President Barack Obama and after unprecedented outreach effort, on June 2, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Agency released the Clean Power Plan proposal, which for the first time calls for reducing carbon pollution from existing power plants, the largest source of carbon pollution in the United States; and
Whereas, The proposal will protect public health, move the United States toward a cleaner environment and mitigate climate change while supplying Americans with reliable and affordable power; and
Whereas, Power plants account for roughly one-third of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States; and
Whereas, While the United States has limits in place for the levels of arsenic, mercury, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, and particle pollution that power plants can emit, there are currently no national limits on carbon pollution levels; and
Whereas, With the Clean Power Plan, the EPA is proposing guidelines that build upon trends underway in states and the power sector to cut carbon pollution from existing power plants, making them more efficient and less polluting; and
Whereas, According to the EPA, the proposed Clean Power Plan will cut hundreds of millions of tons of carbon pollution and hundreds of thousands of tons of harmful particle pollution, sulfur dioxide and nitrogen oxides, thereby providing important health protections to the most vulnerable segments of the population, such as children and older Americans; and
Whereas, The proposed Clean Power Plan is flexible - reflecting that different states have different mixes of power-generation technologies and varying ...
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