RFF Event - Dec 7: Greenhouse Gas Regulation for Power Plants under the Clean Air Act

Greenhouse Gas Regulation for Power Plants under the Clean Air ActAn RFF First Wednesday Seminar
December 7, 2011
12:45 - 2:00 p.m.A light lunch will be available at 12:30 p.m.
Resources for the Future
First Floor Conference Center
1616 P Street NW
Washington, D.C.

This seminar will also be webcast live beginning at 12:45 p.m.
Have a question for the panel while watching the live webcast? Simply tweet your question of fewer than 140 characters and include the hashtag #AskRFF. Watch the Q&A at the end of the event to see if it is selected.

Registration is required. To RSVP for this event, please visit RFF's event registration page.

PLEASE NOTE: Registration is intended for guests attending this event in person. If you plan to watch the webcast of this event, there is no need to register.
About the Event
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) may soon propose Clean Air Act rules regulating the largest class of greenhouse gas emitters: coal-fired power plants. With climate policy off the congressional agenda, these and other rules under the act have taken center stage in the formulation of U.S. policy for limiting carbon emissions. But what will the rules for coal plants look like? Will they include market-based mechanisms? How expensive will they be, and on whom will those costs fall most heavily? How will they work with existing state-level programs like those in California and the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic? These questions have been the focus of research at RFF and elsewhere over the past year that has aimed to both understand what EPA may do and provide input into the agency’s decisionmaking process.
This RFF First Wednesday seminar will present some of the results of this research, along with a broader discussion of the Clean Air Act as a pathway for climate policy.

moderator:
Nathan Richardson, Resident Scholar, Resources for the Future

Panelists:

Joshua Linn, Fellow, Resources for the Future
Art Fraas, Visiting Scholar, Resources for the Future
Dallas Burtraw, Darius Gaskins Senior Fellow, Resources for the Future
Discussants:
William L. Wehrum, Partner, Hunton and Williams, LLP

Brian McLean, former Director, EPA Office of Atmospheric Programs

Green Corps opportunity for graduating students

Hello! My name is Jessica Rose, and I work with Green Corps, the non-profit Field School for Environmental Organizing.

I am looking to get the word out to graduating seniors at American University about our paid training program for environmental organizing.

We’ve just opened our 2012-2013 applications. I was hoping you could send an email out to your students to let them know about the program.

Jessica Rose

Green Corps Outreach intern

Jobs@greencorps.org

617 747 4302

www.greencorps.org

Celebrating 20 Years: Green Corps, Field School for Environmental Organizing

** Applications due October 15^th 2011 – apply online today at http://www.greencorps.org**

Green Corps 2012-2013 Field School for Environmental Organizing

Green Corps is looking for college graduates who are ready to take on the biggest environmental challenges of our day.

In Green Corps’ year-long paid program, you’ll get intensive training in the skills you’ll need to make a difference in the world. You’ll get hands-on experience fighting to solve urgent environmental problems — global warming, deforestation, water pollution and many others — with groups such as Sierra Club and Food and Water Watch. And, when you graduate from Green Corps, we’ll help you find a career with one of the nation’s leading environmental and social change groups.

For more information, read below or visit our web site: www.greencorps.org.

In your year with Green Corps:
You’ll get great training with some of the most experienced organizers in the field: Green Corps organizers take part in trainings with leading figures in the environmental and social change movements: people such as Adam Ruben, political director of MoveOn.org, and Bill McKibben, author and organizer of the “350.org” rallies for climate action.

You’ll get amazing experience working on environmental issues across the country: Green Corps sends organizers to jumpstart campaigns for groups such as Rainforest Action Network, Sierra Club, Greenpeace, Food and Water Watch and Environment America in San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and dozens of other places in between.

You’ll have a real impact on some of the biggest environmental problems we’re facing today: Green Corps organizers have built the campaigns that helped keep the Arctic safe from drilling, that led to new laws that support clean, renewable energy, that convinced major corporations to stop dumping in our oceans and much, much more.

You’ll even get paid: Green Corps Organizers earn a salary of $23,750. Organizers also have a chance to opt into our health care program with a pre-tax monthly salary deferral. We offer paid sick days and holidays, two weeks paid vacation and a student loan repayment program for those who qualify.

And when you graduate from the program, you’ll be ready for what comes next: Green Corps will help connect you to environmental and progressive groups that are looking for full-time staff to build their organizations and help them create social change and protect our environment.

In the next few months, we‘ll invite 35 college graduates to join Green Corps in 2012-2013. We’re looking for people who are serious about saving the planet, people who have taken initiative on their campus or community, and people who are willing to roll up their sleeves and work for change over the long haul.

If you think you’re one of those people, visit http://www.greencorps.org/apply to submit your application to join the 2012-2013 class of Green Corps’ Field School for Environmental Organizing.

Green Corps’ year-long program begins in August 2012 with Introductory Classroom Training in Boston, and continues with field placements in multiple locations across the U.S. Candidates must be willing to relocate.

For more information, visit http://www.greencorps.org or contact Aaron Myran, Green Corps Field Organizer, at aaron@greencorps.org or (802) 734-7680.

US-India Energy Security Summit 9/29

The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) and Yale University, in
association with the US India Business Council, are convening the second
US-India Energy Partnership Summit, this coming Wednesday (September 29),
in Washington. The summit will focus on "Technologies and Policies for
Energy Security," and is being attended by many of the key stake holders in
the growing US India relationship on climate and energy.

Attached is a student registration form (word doc) and
the agenda. The website is here (http://www.terina.org/usindiasummit/).
We have a few spaces open for graduate students, and it will be on a first
come, first serve basis. Students will attend free of cost.