Clean Energy & Global Climate Change Cory Berish, Ph.D, Acting Deputy Assistant Regional Administrator Tom Baugh, Energy and Climate Change Coordinator US 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 Star Change a Light Campaign TDEC Alternative 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 Savannah NWR Wassaw NWR Ft. Pulaski Nat. Monument Hunter Army Airfield Blackbeard Island NWR Harris Neck NWR

Adaptation Strategies Southeastern Ecological Framework Fort Stewart Savannah NWR Wassaw NWR Ft. Pulaski Nat. Monument Hunter Army 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: 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