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DMDMIL( <br /> IVIIVIUPJ Position Statement <br /> Reasonable and Effective <br /> Environmental Regulation <br /> • Municipal utilities are <br /> strong supporters of clean <br /> air and water. <br /> • Municipal utilities <br /> are working hard to <br /> meet evolving customer <br /> expectations, and to help <br /> provide cleaner air and <br /> water. <br /> r,$. <br /> • Municipal utilities believe _.. ' <br /> that incentives work better �.` .- <br /> than mandates and that all 1 ` - <br /> •regulations need to account mow- i <br /> for needed infrastructure, <br /> .e. <br /> time, and costs before being <br /> imposed, in order to ensure <br /> that the goals are viable, Municipal utilities support their communities and reasonable, effective environmental <br /> sustainable, and limit regulation.Two Harbors, pop.3,500, recently spent$3 million to upgrade its wastewater <br /> secondary impacts. treatment plant. Pictured is the Two Harbors Lake Superior breakwater. <br /> Background <br /> Whether one supports the `Green New Deal' or statutorily imposed deadlines. And, Minnesota's <br /> applauds the use of executive orders to repeal municipal water and wastewater facilities are <br /> perceived prior overreach in imposing government proud to have long been on the front lines of <br /> regulations, there is no question that environment maintaining Minnesota's high level of water <br /> related matters are at the forefront of both state quality. However, these efforts have not come <br /> and federal political efforts. without expense, hard work, and innovations. <br /> Municipal utilities are investing in cleaner and Municipal utilities recognize the need for <br /> more efficient power generation, including the appropriate and effective regulation of both air <br /> increasing use of renewables; improving load quality and water quality, and have a long history <br /> management; educating consumers on ways to of sharing concerns and ideas about proposed <br /> save energy (and money); and implementing regulations, and working hard to comply with <br /> innovations, all to position ourselves to meet those eventually adopted. But for a regulation to be <br /> a changing market, to meet evolving customer effective, the entity proposing it must, at the very <br /> expectations, and to help provide cleaner air and least, consider the following: <br /> water. <br /> • Whether the technology and infrastructure <br /> Minnesota's municipal electric utilities are necessary to implement the regulation are <br /> meeting, and frequently exceeding, the mandatory available; <br /> use of renewable energy sources, often before <br /> 2019 Federal Position Statements/8 <br /> 134 <br />