| Regional NOx SIP Call (NOx Budget Pgm.) | 126 | proposal (Oct. 21, 1998); Finding of Significant Contribution (Oct. 27, 1998) | ||
| status of CAIR. NOx SIP Call, and CSAPR | 110 | docket for "Prior Determination Withdrawal" (closed July 9, 2014) | ||
| Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) | 110 | final (2006); USEPA page | ||
| Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) | 110 | final (20__); USEPA page; motion of __/__/14 (Homer City); decision of __/__/14 (Homer City) | ||
| Sec. 111 NSPS for utility, commercial and industrial generating units and Sec. 112 NESHAP for coal-fired power plants | 111 and 112 | proposal (May 3, 2011); dockets ( NSPS ); ( NESHAP ) | final (Feb. 16, 2012); OEPA guidance for granting one-year extensions | AKA "MATS;" regulates Hg, acid gasses, etc.; ( background ); EPA action page |
| New and Reconstructed Electric Utility Generating Units | 111(b) | proposal (Jan. 8, 2014); docket (closed May 9, 2014) | final (due Jan., 2015) | |
| Modified and Reconstructed Electric Utility Generating Units | 111(b) | proposal (June 18, 2014); docket (closed Oct. 16, 2014; may be extended); Memorandum to Docket, containing what appears to be the regulatory text being proposed, and which appears nowhere else | yes, there are both "new and reconstructed" and "modified and reconstructed" dockets (although the latter is identified merely as "modified") | |
| Existing Electric Utility Generating Units | 111(d) | proposal (June 18, 2014); docket (closes Dec. 1, 2014) | settlement agreements; W. Va., Ohio, et al. petition for review of settlement agreement |
All those hundreds of thousands of comments need to be indexed (i.e. the few consequential ones need to be identified) . . . Hold that thought.
Ohio's comments
Testimony of Director Craig Butler before House subcommittee on Sept. 11, 2015
Environmental Injuries of Renewable Energy
thermal solar and birds: Mail Online; Watts Up; Washington Times
wind turbines and birds and bats: wikipedia; (heavy-duty debunking); "Wind Farm" article (inventory of installations); Fort Collins Research Center; National Wind Coordinating Collaborative; NWCC fact sheet; Mark Hayes (uncorrected proof); Bats and Wind Energy Cooperative; Discover Magazine
acoustic: wind turbine syndrome (rationalwiki; hostile self-styled debunker)
University of Adelaide (dB(A) scale? No weighting factors for sub-acoustic, are there? Try searching on "fremetis."
destruction of scenic vistas (any federal regs? good resource here, and particularly this page.
IPM
do the IPM runs accurately reflect the problems of reliability and availability described in the British press? Note this chapter from the v.5.13 Base Case documentation addresses this subject matter.
Here's a system summary report ("Option 1") in the existing sources docket. 'Nothern, of some kind. Here's input specifications and actual data for IPM. ("Base Case v. 5.13")
documentation for Base Case v. 5.13
The Power Sector Modeling page is a good jumping-off point . . .
Cap and trade programs
Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI; "an initiative of the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States of the U.S.")
Economics of Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) programs
in Ohio; NRDC fact sheet; Proposed Renewable Generation in PJM; OPSI filings and documents page