And to show you an example of the problem we are faced with what like to talk to you a little bad about a problem that we have in chesterfield county. The last six months of so we have been fighting the import of fly ash that would be used to build burns, to augment our soil for products that we use on ground and over 250 people came to our county to complain about this, to complain about water being polluted by the toxic chemicals and nothing has been done about it. The apartment of Energy Quality decided that fly ash is not toxic and will not hurt us and will allow the company to continue to import this. The reason we have to ask ourselves, airways are flooded, newspapers are flooded with articles and commercials basically talking about the nonsense about Global Warming. If we had regulations where going to affect jobs, benefits. And there really isnt a way for a foundation, educating people about the dangers of the environment. The here these repeated over and over again. So i am here really to say thank you to. We look in our situation and say who speaks for us . There is absolutely no one that speaks for us. Dont have the power to be effective. 210 i live in takoma park maryland and i am speaking in support of the rule. I also want to think that epa and president obama for creating a rule to reduce Carbon Pollution. Im very grateful to you for that. Im a wildlife biologist and they work for the National Wildlife federation. Im a birdwatcher and bicyclist. Bicycle accident, broken arm and feeling well but im a member of a synagogue among other things and i would like to talk a little bit about how it relates to Climate Change and the need to reduce Carbon Pollution. First as a biologist which ive worked in this field over 30 years and there is no question the climate is changing and impacting wildlife now but on the adaptation side we are working with many Government Agencies including the epa and other conservation organizations to prepare and cope with these impacts create we published a guide called climate smart. Climate change isnt enough now and these agencies will have to manage and the people that benefit from the outdoors and the water now have to be managed with this in mind. It can no longer be managed looking at the past and how we used to be at restoring habitat and what is the climate going to look like in the next 50 or 100 years and that is a change for the Wildlife Conservation movement to crackle with how do we deal with this . So we have to put out a 300 page document if and we are doing training across the country. We can make a difference and let them continue to thrive that there will be a Tipping Point. We are having the impact now. If we can stop the Carbon Pollution than we have a fighting chance and we can implement the adaptation principles but if we do not do that then we will reach a Tipping Point there is no going back. They provided by helping us clean the air and the water and it will no longer be available to us so while i believe we have to take action now. Now i want to Say Something as a mother. My son just turned seven and when he was as young as five, he and his son came up with an idea they want to be inventor is when in vendors when they grow up they came up with an idea they would create the sky cleaner. Theyve held on to this and had this idea they were going to have a Little Machine that goes up in the air like a vacuum cleaner and cleans the air and they are going to attach it to the back of cars. They are serious. They think this is what is going to do it. So i encourage them and they think they are going to make a lot of money and do things for the environment but this is what our children are growing up thinking the world is like and they cant understand they routinely say to me how come they dont just stop it. It is a hard question to answer. That is his primary invention is the sky cleaner described cleaner but i do hope he can create it. We have a Green Building and it is about taking care of the earth and that is our response ability and all faiths have something to do with that. We are creating in a storm water basin which was created in the 100 year flood which is happening we are filling it up now on to greater frequency then we ever did. We are creating Wildlife Habitat to hold more carbon and water and create this program all over the country to deal with churches and synagogues and to deal with Climate Change. I see my time is up but thank you for the opportunity. We will resume at about 3 19. Thank you for your patience. We are going to resume. I dont plan to recapitulate them but if anybody has any questions you are asking you to be respectful of each others testimony and speak up to five minutes for the list of people that want to speak of a chance to we are going to keep to that as best we can. I would like to invite now come to testify pleased. Good afternoon. Thank you for providing these sessions that indicate your love for and belief in democracy. Thank you for your patience we are hearing over and over. Hopefully provide support to go forward as most important proposed rule for finding the best systems for co2 Emission Reductions. I live in manassas virginia and i serve as practice as a masters prepared by the sight of pediatric nurse. In 2004 the masters thesis was entitled to the health the Health Effects of Global Warming. I was laughed at by my professors who claimed that Global Warming was not a healthcare concern. Aalpha Climate Change became the political football that it is today i also think you their representatives for acknowledging the Climate Change is real. In your introduction i oppose this proposal as an important step to achieving the Greenhouse GasEmission Reductions needed to address a serious threat of Climate Change. The pollution threatens the American Public by leading to potentially rapid, damaging and longlasting changes in the climate that we have to have a range of severe effects on human health and on the environment. Co2 is a primary pollutant that accounts for nearly three quarters of the missions and 82 of the emissions. The 2014 report of the Climate Assessment concluded the impact manifesting them. On the weather events in recent decades in the agriculture and projects continue increases and impact on the sectors and ecosystems. As a nurse for vice all the people trapped in the dome for days with no water and no where to put human waste. Children are my passion. Imagine with me again as the earth no longer our mother that cares for us but a child who is in danger of co2 toxicity and asthma struggling to breathe and to be free. Children are among the most vulnerable. Im here to speak up for them. They are is a significant reduction in the Carbon Pollution from power plants first time in the nations history. Powerplants are responsible for the pollution country in the climate disruption. There are limits on the amount of mercury, sulfur, arsenic, cyanide but until recently thereve been no limits on the pollution. In the reductions to the power sector there were approximately 30 of the levels in 2005 and would result in a climate and health them to the 82 billion. Im deeply concerned that proposal will not see these reductions until 16 years now in 2030. In the introduction, the proposal speaks to the the healthcare Cost Health Care cost savings as a result of the emissions reduction that this point doesnt repeat the sections the section from sections on the costbenefit analysis of the various alternatives. Thank you for your work and developing the building blocks. I agree that best system to reduce emissions as for is for the states to use elements of all four blocks. I do challenge the low expectations of Renewable Energy overall. Germany is very committed to the Renewable Energy. I quote from wikipedia the Renewable Energy sector is among the most innovative and successful worldwide. The share of electricity produced has increased from 6. 3 to the National Total in 2000 to about 25 in the first half of 2012. In 2011, 20. 5 of germanys electricity was reduced to the Energy Sources and more than the 2,010th conjugation of the gas fired plants. In the First Six Months of 2014 almost 31 of the electric power came from renewable sources mainly wind, biomass and solar. This is more to eat in 2010 investments totaling 26 billion were made in the Renewable Energy sector. Germany has been called the worlds first major renewable economy. The chief executive bbs germany is targeting 35 of its electricity by 2020 is achievable. I understand we are focusing on Carbon Emissions but does that mean we turn a blind eye to the environmental degradation resulting from natural gas and Nuclear Energy . I invite you to september 21 returning to the best thank you. I believe you submitted a paper copy. I did because i also have a question about the best practices but im done. We will make sure those are reflected in the record. I would like to follow. I started my career im a witness. I dont bring any scientific peepers and im not going to staple of the facts youve heard over and over again. You know the science. Youre doing a great job. I started as a peace corps volunteer and went to the paul russell the hell himalayas and got interested in the Resource Management and excited by what i saw i wanted to see what we could do to protect those wonderful mountains and decided to try to get an advanced degree and i took the graduate record exam is coming off into cornell, got a phd after some struggle and ive been working in the field ever since. 1975 i went with my family to try to reverse the decertification. We were there for five years. My family started there. My son was born in Southern Africa. Came back 15 years in new england where i worked on the watershed council to protect and turn around the disaster of the river which was a toxic waste dump some years ago and now you can swim in it. While i was there i posted and moderated a workshop at the jfk school at Harvard University for climate scientists together with media people sometime ago, 1985 to alert the media to the problem of Climate Science and that its time jim henson and scientists out there doing the work were unanimous than and more now. Theyve been joined by hundreds of thousands of other but we saw it in the 1980s and we need to remember the clock is ticking. I went back to the himalayas and my family lived there eight years and ive been a witness to some real changes. We did introduce some Solar Power Technology in africa and Solar Power Technology in the paul. We have electric taxis in kathmandu and solar panels on water and electric over Southern Africa and get our own embassies in other parts of the world are not even using those kind of technologies. I was with witness and i was recently in jordan where i saw the dead to see the treating a catastrophic rate not only from Climate Change but for many in the water. I brought engineers to the United States to see what we did in the Central Valley and the wonderful fantastic irrigation and how we we turn to the lower end of the Central Valley to a toxic waste dump in the reserve where the park rangers have to wear protective clothing and blow off shotguns to keep the wildlife on the verge of settling in the part the park otherwise they will buy with your children will be deformed. I was in afghanistan and pakistan and recently and solve whats happening to that beautiful hindu crush. I was working in the himalayas and i came back to work on the natural park reserve social community for History Community owned National Parks and we were able to in my short life span here to actually demonstrate increased for station of the himalayan watershed. There are more trees today than there were 40 years ago and yet the glaciers are still melting and they are molting seriously and 12 of my friends died because of that climate induced secondary effect. I also saw the scene in india. The programs planting thousands of acres of forests and yet the problem continues. I worked with African Women who planted hundreds of thousands of seedlings will need to see the problems continue to. I was recently back in africa and i saw what is happening to kilimanjaro. Kids better see it because it wont have a snow cat anymore. Ive seen the Sea Level Rise in bangladesh killing hundreds of thousands of people, sri lanka and even whats happening in new zealand and the Pacific Islands and my granddaughter was born just recently in new york city and she was lucky to get to the Downtown Medical Center because it was completely under water before she was born. Seeing the science in the Public Information i studied the history of science never in the history of science has there been such a consensus. They did back to galileo but theres never been a consensus like that. Why are we still struggling to bring coal under control. Its terrible we have to make this testimony and you have to wage the battle. Raise the bar and keep on raising the bar. Thank you very much. Thank you. I would like to invite dean hubbard and jeff hine please. If we burn all fossil fuel will you please introduce resulting spell your name for the reporter . By name is jeffrey hayman. Doctor james hansen predicts that if we burn all fossil fuels, we could cause our planet to become not only ice free but human free. I imagined the point of no return that guarantees the nearterm extinction must be similarly less than all of the fossil fuels. I hope that we havent crossed that point already. If we want to avoid the dangerous limits of the Global Warming, we need to keep at least four fifths of the reserves of fossil fuel carbon in the ground forever. At the current rate yourself to blow past the limits within 14 or 15 years. Im seeing the end of humanity. The unmitigated Global Warming means the total annihilation of everything of the value but the value in this universe. President obama has said that Global Warming is one of the most important issues of the generation and not to Global Warming down the line and most important president ial priorities. It is the single most important history issue and doctor hensing has said that the upper limit for our safety of the co2 in the atmosphere is 350 parts per million. If we could stay below 400 parts per million, we still might be able to get down below 350 by that means like reforestation but if we go lower than the 400 we will no longer be practically possible. We are now at 400 parts per million and we need to act with urgency. Weve already caused a certain amount of damage to the planet that we will not be able to fix and we can all agree on the damage we caused already. There is further warming in the pipeline that we will not be able to prevent that theres a potential even greater damage that hopefully we still can prevent if we act. Humans have accomplished many great things across the history of our civilization. I think it would be nice if we could choose to continue to survive on earth so that we might be able to remember the achievements of the past as well as to continue to do more great things in the future. If we survive Global Warming in the short term the shortterm short term there is longerterm risks to survival on earth. Things like the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs and eventually our sun will buy. We could work over thousands of years to survive threats by doing things like mars and other planets around other stars that we need a stable home base to work for. People that go to Public Service for a career are interested more in serving the public good more than personal enrichment. Serving people who you have never met and never will meet i want you to consider that potential people of the future generations will also never meet out outnumber and outweigh the number of people alive today. I dont have children of my own that i have enough uses as the drought increasing sea levels rise i worry if they will be able to always be secure in their ability to obtain food. I wonder if they might be above the last humans to survive on earth before our extinction. This planet is a baby step. Go ahead and take baby steps but dont imagine it to be more than what it is. We need a total war efforts to mitigate Global Warming and this is not to that. We need a plan that causes