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Mary ryla land C Communit ity Transit itio ion Beyond C Coal Soundin ing t the A Ala larm on Clim limate te D Dis isruptio tion In 2018, the worlds leading scientists in the UN International Panel on Climate Change warned

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Soundin ing t the A Ala larm on Clim limate te D Dis isruptio tion

  • In 2018, the world’s leading scientists in the UN

International Panel on Climate Change warned there is

  • nly a dozen years left for dramatic action to keep global

warming below 1.5 degrees Celsius.

  • Even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of

drought, floods, extreme heat, and poverty for hundreds

  • f millions of people.
  • A half degree difference: coral reefs being completely

eradicated, sea level rise would affect 10 million more people, regular ice-free summers in the Arctic, insects at risk of losing over half their habitat.

  • This is the difference 1/2 degree makes, yet business as

usual emissions takes the world well above 2 degrees of warming.

  • A world in which we continue to burn coal is not a

world with a livable climate for future generations.

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Coal P l Plants in Maryland

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Mary ryla land’s ’s Coal l Plan ants ts

By the Numbers

  • 6 - Six coal plants in Maryland pumped out the same amount of

climate pollution in 2017 as over 2,000,000 cars

  • 5 - Five coal plants in the state were operating with expired water

pollution permits in 2018

  • 4 - Four coal plants in Maryland were built during or before the Nixon

administration (two were built during the Eisenhower administration).

  • 3 - Three coal plants are operating without modern pollution controls

for smog-forming nitrogen oxides.

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wo plants are co-located in the same community, in northern Anne Arundel County, just south of Baltimore City

  • 1 - One Maryland coal plant (CP Crane in Baltimore County

deactivated in 2018. Recently approved to convert to fracked gas.)

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Maryland Coal Generation (MWh)

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Air Q Quality lity a and P Public lic H Health lth

  • Prince George’s County recently received an F

grade from the American Lung Association regarding it’s ozone pollution. Montgomery County received a D.

  • Unhealthy air (high ozone) days a risk to

19,633 children with asthma, and 68,009 adults in Prince George’s, and 23,814 children and 77,262 adults in Montgomery County.

  • 88% of Marylanders, including those in Prince

George’s and Montgomery live in areas deemed with unhealthy air based on EPA sulfur dioxide standards.

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We No Longer Need Coal Power in Maryland

  • The Clean Energy Jobs Act, which just passed the

Maryland General Assembly sets a goal for Maryland to get 50% of its energy from renewable sources by 2030.

  • Includes a 14.5% solar carve out by 2028 (previously we

were at 2.5% by 2020). The solar carve-out alone in this bill will provide more MWh from solar than all of the electricity produced by Maryland's coal plants in 2017.

  • The legislation includes an additional 1200 MW of
  • ffshore wind, putting us at nearly 1600 MW by 2030.
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  • Plans for offshore wind

farms off Maryland’s coast.

  • On July 23rd, 2019, it

was announced that an

  • ffshore wind company

would construct turbines at Sparrows Point in Baltimore County, site of former Bethlehem Steel plant.

  • Project will create 1,400

jobs, more than 900 in construction and nearly 500 during operation. This is from an 120 MW

  • ffshore wind farm!
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– By 2020, secure an enforceable commitment, to retire Maryland’s coal-fired power plants by 2025. – Secure just transition and protections for impacted communities and workers.

Goals and Vision: Community Transition

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  • gether, the Sierra Club believes we must

ensure: – Workers and communities affected by the phasing out of fossil fuels are treated fairly and justly, particularly given the burdens they have borne; – The jobs created by climate action programs and policies are quality, family-sustaining jobs; – Overburdened and underserved communities and constituencies receive equitable access to the benefits of clean energy-related economic

  • pportunities

Our Goals and Vision

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  • Washington State:

– 2011 legislation provided $55 million in investment to communities and workers facing retirement of a coal power plant. – Followed up with 2019 bill to bar utilities from purchasing any coal power.

  • Colorado

– Creation of Just Transition Office to disburse funds to impacted workers from plant closures.

Coal Community Transition in the US

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  • New York NY has Fossil Fuel Plant Closure Fund to

assist communities. Funded at $19 million.

  • The fund provides: (1) money for the affected

communities so that ordinary working people would not be on the hook for the shut down of the plant, 2) job and/or retraining for those employed at the plant, and 3) pathways to reuse the physical plant, and the site of the plant, for various activities that would enhance the economic and cultural life of the communities.

  • Along with the establishment of this fund, Governor

Andrew Cuomo enacted pollution regulations to phase

  • ut all remaining New York coal usage in plants by

2020.

Coal Community Transition in the US

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Progress in 2019

  • Baltimore City passed Beyond Coal resolution in

February.

  • Similar resolutions have been presented in

advocacy meetings to other county councils.

  • Lead bill sponsor in General Assembly identified.
  • Sierra Club groups have collected nearly 2,000

Beyond Coal petition signatures at tabling events.

  • Dozens of house meetings, educational

activities, and public events are steadily being

  • rganized.
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How Can You Help?

  • Email Matt!

○matt.dernoga@mdsierra.org

  • Letters to the Editor
  • Social media team
  • Petitioning
  • Host a house meeting
  • Contact your representatives
  • Monthly Statewide Calls
  • Coalition sign-on