Clean Energy & Global Clean Energy & Global Climate ChangeClimate Change

Clean Energy & Global Clean Energy & Global Climate ChangeClimate Change

Cory Berish, Ph.D, Acting Deputy Assistant Regional AdministratorCory Berish, Ph.D, Acting Deputy Assistant Regional AdministratorTom Baugh, Energy and Climate Change CoordinatorTom Baugh, Energy and Climate Change Coordinator

US EPA Region 4US EPA Region 4

Cory Berish, Ph.D, Acting Deputy Assistant Regional AdministratorCory Berish, Ph.D, Acting Deputy Assistant Regional AdministratorTom Baugh, Energy and Climate Change CoordinatorTom Baugh, Energy and Climate Change Coordinator

US EPA Region 4US EPA Region 4

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

Energy Efficiency Strategies

Energy StarChange a Light Campaign

TDECAlternative Fuels

Energy Production & Supply Strategies

• Host conference with partners on clean sustainable energy

• Identify workable technologies for utilizing agricultural manure or byproducts for energy production

Manufacturing, Industrial & Agricultural Strategies

Images from Augusta Chronicle

Adaptation Strategies

Southeastern Ecological Framework

Adaptation Strategies

Southeastern Ecological Framework

25 Feet Sea Level Rise

Adaptation Strategies

Southeastern Ecological Framework

Fort Stewart

SavannahNWR

Wassaw NWR

Ft. PulaskiNat. Monument

HunterArmy

Airfield

Blackbeard Island NWR

Harris Neck NWR

Adaptation Strategies

Southeastern Ecological Framework

Fort Stewart

SavannahNWR

Wassaw NWR

Ft. PulaskiNat. Monument

HunterArmy

Airfield

Blackbeard Island NWR

Harris Neck NWR

25 Feet Sea Level Rise

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

EPA Voluntary Programs Related to Climate Change

EPA’s National-Level Activities

• 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

National Water Program Strategy: Response to Climate Change

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

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