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EBC NH Chapter Program:

Update from U.S. EPA – Regional

Administrator Curtis Spalding

Environmental Business Council of New England

Energy Environment Economy

With Co-Host

Business and Industry Association ofNew Hampshire



Introduction



Robert Varney

Senior Vice President

Normandeau Associates, Inc.



Update from Federal Environmental

Leadership

H. Curtis SpaldingRegional Administrator

U.S. EPA – Region 1





EBC and NH BIA

Curt SpaldingJuly 17, 2014

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency4



“…those who claim the science is unsettled or

action is too costly are simply trying to ignore the

problem.….

…viewing climate change in terms of risk

assessment and risk management makes clear to

me that taking a cautiously conservative stance—

that is, waiting for more information before acting

— is actually taking a very radical risk. We’ll never

know enough to resolve all of the uncertainties.

But we know enough to recognize that we must act

now.”

--Henry M. Paulson Jr.



“Climate change …can add to the

challenges of global instability, hunger,

poverty, and conflict. Food and water

shortages, pandemic disease, disputes over

refugees and resources, more severe

natural disasters – all place additional

burdens on economies, societies and

institutions around the world.”

--Chuck Hagel, United States Defense

Secretary



The Clean Power Plan Proposal DealsWith the Largest Source of GHG

Emissions in the U.S.

9



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 powersources more

Dispatch changes to

existing natural gascombined cycle (CC)

Dispatch changes to

existing natural gas CC

3. Build more

zero/low-emitting

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 10



State programs that reduce carbon

include carbon cap and trade

programs and energy efficiency and

renewable energy standards or goals.11

States and Communities with

Programs That Reduce Carbon

Pollution



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22%

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

New England Economic Growth and ISO New

England System Emissions, 1999-2012

New England GDP Total Generation CO2 Emissions

NOx Emissions SO2 Emissions

Data Sources: 2012 ISO New England Electric

Generator Air Emissions Report, US Department ofCommerce, Bureau of Economic Analysis



The Clean Power Plan Proposal DealsWith the Largest Source of GHG

Emissions in the U.S.

13



NEW FUEL STANDARDS



CLIMATE ADAPTATION PLAN:

UNDERSTANDING REGIONAL IMPACTS



Climate Adaptation Reports

http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/ceq/initiatives/adaptation

October 2010: Initial report to

the

President:

5 major recommendations

Recommendation #1: Each

Federal

Agency should develop a

Climate

Change Adaptation Plan

(due to CEQ June 29,

2012)

October 2011: Progress report

published



Summit Date:

Friday, November 8, 2013

Johnson & Wales University, HarborsideCampus, Providence RI

Report Date:

March 2014



EBC NH Chapter Program:

Update from U.S. EPA –

Regional Administrator Curtis Spalding



With Co-HostBusiness and Industry Association of

New Hampshire

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