# EBC New Hampshire Curt Spalding July 17, 2015 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency2



# Summer of Climate

• Climate Action Progress • Clean Power Plan • Resiliency3

# • Lays out different approaches for new and existing

sources • New sources under section 111(b) • Federal standards for new, modified and reconstructed sources 

## • Existing sources under section 111(d) • State programs for existing sources that are equivalent to federal guidelines


# • Applies the “Best System of Emissions Reduction ” (BSER) • Feasibility • Costs 

### • Technology • Size of Reductions 4 

# Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards Clean Air Act Section 111

# This Proposal Deals With the Largest Source

of GHG Emissions in the U.S.

5Building Block Strategy EPA Used to Calculate the State Goal Maximum Flexibility: Examples of State Compliance Measures 1. Make fossil fuel -fired power plants more efficient Efficiency Improvements Efficiency improvements Co -firing or switching to natural gas Coal retirements Retrofit CCS (e.g.,WA Parish in Texas) 2. Use lower-emitting power sources more Dispatch changes to existing natural gas combined cycle (CC) Dispatch changes to existing natural gas CC 3. Build more zero/lowemitting energy sources Renewable Energy Certain Nuclear New NGCC Renewables Nuclear (new and up - rates) New coal with CCS 4. Use electricity more efficiently Demand -side energy efficiency programs Demand - side energy efficiency programs Transmission efficiency improvements Energy storage 6

# State Performance Goals (lbs/ MWh ) State 2012 Fossil

Emission Rate 1 Interim Goal (2020 - 2029 average) 2 Final Goal (2030

and thereafter) 2 Connecticut 844 597 540 Maine 873 393 378 Massachusetts 1,001 655 576 New Hampshire 1,119 546 486 Rhode Island 918 822 782

7 1 From Goal Computation Technical Support Document, Appendix 5 – 2012 Emissions Rate and Building Block Application 2 From Table 1 to Subpart UUUU of Part 60 – State Rate-Based CO2 Emission Performance Goals, Proposed

## • Timing:

o Up to 15 -year window in which to 

## plan for and achieve reductions in carbon pollution o Up to two or three years to submit final plans • Form of goal: States can use either a rate - based or mass - based goal • Single or multi -state plans: States 

## can collaborate and develop plans on a multi -state basis • Selection of measures: o States can build off existing 

## reduction programs o States can choose their collection of measures 

## o State can design programs to reduce CO 2 

## emissions from utilities on a regional basis

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# Flexibilities Available to States24% 12%

-20%

-71%

-93% -100% -80% -60% -40% -20% 0% 20% 40%

1999 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 

### New England Economic Growth and ISO New England System

Emissions, 1999 -2013

New England GDP Total Generation CO2 Emissions NOx Emissions SO2 Emissions

# Next Steps

Milestones Dates Final Standards for New Sources Summer 2015 Final Standards for Modified and 

## Reconstructed Sources Summer 2015 Final Emissions Guidelines for 

## Existing Sources Summer 2015 Proposal for Federal Plan Summer 2015 

## State Plans/Extension Requests due Summer 2016 Multi -state compliance plans due Summer 2018

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# Community Resiliency: Making a Visible

Difference

• Stormwater Resiliency 

# • Enforcement Efforts that Make a Difference

# & Stormwater Nutrients13 

# Effort Begins to Reduce Children’s Exposure to Lead Paint in Nashua, N.H. Area BOSTON – In an effort to improve compliance with laws that protect children from 

# lead paint poisoning, EPA sent letters earlier this month to over 300 home renovation and painting contractors, property management companies and landlords in and around Nashua, N.H. announcing a compliance assistance and 

# enforcement initiative. The EPA letter outlines steps EPA is taking to increase compliance on the part of these entities with the federal lead - based paint Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule under the Toxic Substances Control Act.14



# Conclusions, Looking Ahead, Hot TopicsU.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

# Thank You Curt Spalding EPA New England Regional Administrator Spalding.Curt@epa.gov