The December 8 combined November/December Coal WG call featured a discussion with John Moore from the Sustainable FERC Project. MISO officials are concerned about system reliability impacts due to the implementation of EPA rules and are conducting outreach to raise these concerns to FERC and state commissions.  In order to prevent the concerns and rhetoric of certain MISO employees, which at times have exaggerated the real issue, from derailing the implementation of important EPA rules, advocates need to work together and engage to 1) help MISO become the “air traffic controller” it is uniquely positioned to be, with authority to manage the sequencing and order of specific plant retirements and retrofits in a way that does not compromise reliability, 2) alter MISO’s current rules for how and when plants disclose when they will need to retire or come offline in order to provide greater lead time for planning purposes and to avoid “reliability must run (RMR)” payments to the greatest extent possible, and 3) push MISO to incorporate retirement forecasts into their long-term planning in a comprehensive manner (this last point may seem like an obvious step for MISO to undertake, but is actually of major concern).  The Sustainable FERC Project and Clean Air Task Force are submitting comments to FERC – John Moore and Nancy Lange will work to get a modified version of those comments, specific to Midwest concerns, sent around for RE-AMP members to sign onto and support.