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Proposed Clean Energy Worker Just Transition Act of 2015

Social Policies to Facilitate a Just Carbon Transition
Congress
Would award temporary adjustment assistance to workers of adversely affected coal-related industries who are totally or partially separated because of the low cost of competing alternative forms of energy.

Proposed Healthy Employee Loss Prevention Act of 2018

Social Policies to Facilitate a Just Carbon Transition
Congress
Would establish a worker adjustment assistance program to provide assistance and job retraining for workers who have lost their jobs due to unplanned closures of coal and coal dependent industries.

Proposed RECLAIM Act of 2017

Social Policies to Facilitate a Just Carbon Transition
Congress
Would provide $1 billion dollars over five years to restore abandoned coal mines to something like their natural state, while also scaling up economic diversification efforts in coal country.

New Mexico’s SB 489

Closing Coal Plants, Divesting from Fossil Fuels
State Legislatures
Will shut down a coal power plant by creating a system to sell bonds that would make up for the money the utility would lose by closing the facility.

Colorado Energy Plan

Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Public Utilities, State Public Utility Commissions
Xcel Energy will shut down two of the three units at the Comanche coal plant near Pueblo Colorado, and replace that power with a mix of new renewable energy and battery storage projects along with existing natural gas plants.

Los Angeles Dept. of Water and Power Coal Divestment

Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Public Utilities
The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power reduced its coal consumption by 25% in 2016 with the divestiture from the Navajo Generating Station, part of a plan to divest from all coal sources by 2025.

PSEG Coal Divestment

Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Public Utilities
The Public Service Electric and Gas Company has announced that it will retire or sell all remaining interests in coal-fired power plants, and has no plans to build or acquire new fossil-fueled generation.

Report, A Low Cost Energy Future for Western Cooperatives

Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Local Governments, Public Utilities
Estimated that the Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association could save at least $600 million by 2030 by using their coal plants less and investing in more renewable energy.

Report, Rural Electrification 2.0

Divesting from Fossil Fuels
Local Governments, Public Utilities
Members of the RE-AMP Network published a 2019 report, Rural Electrification 2.0, which investigates pathways for coal plant transition at rural electric cooperatives in the Midwest.

Kansas’ Solid Waste Management Plan

Coal Ash Restrictions
State Agencies
In compliance with RCRA, Kansas has submitted a Solid Waste Management Plan to EPA that addresses coal combustion residual waste.