Clean Energy & Global Climate Change

1. Clean Energy & Global Climate Change Cory Berish, Ph.D, Acting Deputy Assistant Regional AdministratorTom Baugh, Energy and Climate Change CoordinatorUS EPA Region 4

2. An Action Plan for EPA Region 4 Topic Area 1 – Energy Efficiency Strategies Topic Area 2 – Energy Production and Supply Strategies Topic Area 3 – Manufacturing, Industrial and Agricultural Strategies Topic Area 4 – Transportation and Fuels Strategies Topic Area 5 – Adaptation Strategies

3. Energy Efficiency Strategies Energy StarChange a Light Campaign TDECAlternative Fuels

4. Energy Production & Supply Strategies • Host conference with partners on clean sustainable energy • Identify workable technologies for utilizing agricultural manure or byproducts for energy production

5. Manufacturing, Industrial & Agricultural Strategies Images from Augusta Chronicle

6. Adaptation Strategies Southeastern Ecological Framework

7. Adaptation Strategies Southeastern Ecological Framework 25 Feet Sea Level Rise

8. Adaptation Strategies Southeastern Ecological Framework Savannah NWR Fort Stewart Ft. Pulaski Nat. Monument Hunter Army Airfield Wassaw NWR Harris Neck NWR Blackbeard Island NWR

9. Adaptation Strategies Southeastern Ecological Framework Savannah NWR Fort Stewart Ft. Pulaski Nat. Monument 25 Feet Sea Level Rise Hunter Army Airfield Wassaw NWR Harris Neck NWR Blackbeard Island NWR

10. EPA’s National-Level Activities Several Approaches • Managing voluntary greenhouse gas emissions programs • Participating in U.S. Climate Change Science Program • Initiating the development of regulations involving greenhouse gases • Developing the National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change

11. EPA Voluntary Programs Related to Climate Change

12. EPA’s National-Level Activities National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change • Describes potential effects of climate change on clean water, drinking water, and ocean protection programs • Identifies actions that water managers can take to help adapt their programs to climate change and to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions • Strategy document is available at: http://www.epa.gov/water/climatechange

13. National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change Expectations Impacting Water Resources • Shorelines to move as a result of sea level rise • Changes in ocean chemistry to alter aquatic habitat and fisheries • Warming water temperatures to change contaminant concentrations in water and alter aquatic system uses • New patterns of precipitation to alter water supply for drinking/other uses and to change pollution levels in aquatic systems • More intense storms to threaten water infrastructure and increase polluted storm water runoff

14. National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change Strategy has identified five goals: • Water program mitigation of greenhouse gases • Water program adaptation to climate change • Climate change research related to water • Water program education on climate change • Water program management of climate change