Okay, this is significance of what employees can do, not what theyre considering doing in 2016. One of the reasons we do the survey in time frame that we do it. Karen and i will be tagteaming this presentation this morning. I will walk you through major findings in the survey an observations about those. Karen will come up to talk about key tactics employers will introduce in 2016 to manage Health Care Costs. I will talk about implications for employees during annual enrollment. Then well go to q a. First brief about a National Business group on health. Only nations Nonprofit Organizations that works with employers and devoted to working with employers on National Health care policy issues. Working with them to optimize Business Employment through Health Care Improvement and health Care Management. We have roughly 425 members. These are primarily Large Companies. They, 71 of the fortune 100 and they provide Health Coverage for over 50 million employees, dependents and retirees. So a bi
And expedia should consider a fleet wide averageing program permitted spender section 231 which would allow the agency to achieve the greatest initial reduction at lowest cost. The agency should address operational and air Traffic Management practices which could provide Emission Reduction opportunities that lowcost. Finally epa must require any aircraft that cannot meet the requisite final standard or cannot be retrofitted to achieve it to phase out and ultimately retire. It is critical epa credible that outdated aircraft from polluting our skies and contributing to Climate Change while more efficient designs are readily available. Sierra club appreciates epas efforts to move forward with Greenhouse Gas emissions for aircraft and we urge the agency to the epicenter strong force the epa must take the time necessary to develop appropriate and well considered final rule, time is of the essence. In december president obama and Administration Officials will travel to paris to negotiate an
Domestic co2 Emission Standards. Third, potential domestic reporting requirements for aviation manufacturers under the Clean Air Act. Epa has proposed endangerment findings focus on six key Greenhouse Gases but we concur with this approach with caveats. We agree with epa the assessment scientific uncertainties on the Climate Impact of nitrogen oxides or nox and water vapor emitted at altitude remain high enough so as not to address them in this initial endangerment finding. Science with black carbon to Climate Change on the other hand, is clear. Black carbon was identified as the second most important contributor to anthropogenic emissions in 2013 to. To reflect the latest icp should consider incorporating black carbon in its final aviation endangerment finding. Also while we do not support integrating crude nox under the endangerment finding, epa should consider expanding its existing nox reporting requirement for aircraft, Engine Manufacturers, landing and takeoff emissions to includ
Message wouldve been a different one to the business community. Would have been yes we are negotiating ploy might have the dl, yes there will be a deal, but dont cross these lines because this is whats going to happen. Instead, the examples given in the precedents that were in the opposite direction. The message was sanctions or is till in the law books but we are not going to implement them which is why Companies Feel comfortable even though they are so five, six months into implementation they go through the breach. The Swiss Parliament by the way feels the same way. Switzerland maybe not the biggest Global Player but it had a fruitful trade relations and a lot of the phone companies they were running to circumvent oil sanctions, procurement sanctions, to lg sanctions lifted all of its sanctions. They abolished it. They are not waiting for congress. They are not waiting for implementation. Even if you can treat sanctions as a yellow light, not a red light anymore, it is not the yello
Uc davis 2012 just came out with a new study that said the 2015 clock of autism related expenses are 268 billion, and by the year 2025, it could beer near 25 trillion in related costs. We know that aviation emissions have traced heavy metals, they have a byproduct, sulfur, the aviation jet fuel contains 100 times more sulfur than diesel trucks, and we can talk about autism but also high air pollution areas also decrease i. Q. Of children and interesting thing about that is that even when children hit six, seven year they still did not catch up to their peers. So this damage is caused by low i. Q. And pollution has an a effect on one of the most important things that i will tell you, if you want to know how dangerous air pollution is you have to look at the transgenerational changes so there was a study done in that i have in the reference by lets see here. Wheres it, by tracy in 2013, and so what they did is expose life to jet fuel and what they found is that it department change the j