EBC New Hampshire

Curt Spalding

July 17, 2015

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
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Summer of Climate

• Climate Action Progress

• Clean Power Plan

• Resiliency
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• 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

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Proposed Carbon Pollution Standards 

Clean Air Act Section 111
This Proposal Deals With the Largest Source 

of GHG Emissions in the U.S.

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Building 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 sourcesRenewable 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

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State Performance Goals (lbs/MWh)

State 2012 Fossil 

Emission Rate1

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

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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 CO2 emissions from 

utilities on a regional basis

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Flexibilities Available to States
24%

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

Nutrients
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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.
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Conclusions, Looking Ahead, Hot Topics
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Thank You

Curt Spalding

EPA New England Regional Administrator

Spalding.Curt@epa.gov