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Title: EPA Region 9


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EPA Region 9
  • Jeff Scott
  • Waste Management Division

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Administrator Jacksons Priorities
  • Reducing GHG emissions
  • Improving air quality
  • Managing chemical risks
  • Risks of chemicals in consumer products,
    workplaces environment
  • Cleaning up hazardous waste sites
  • Accelerate the pace of cleanup
  • Return properties to productive use
  • Reduce threats to health/environment
  • Protecting Americas water

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Needed GHG Reductions
  • 83 by 2050?
  • 14 - 25 by 2020?
  • By any measure......A Long Road
  • Broad Array of GHG
  • reduction options needed

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Conventional Accounting Sector BasedU.S. GHG
Emissions (2006)
End-of-pipe focus
Leads to technology-oriented strategies
Source U.S. Inventory of GHG Emissions and
Sinks 1990-2006 (US EPA, 2008)
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Systems Based View U.S. GHG Emissions (2006)
Same GHG emissions, a new lens.
Leads to prevention oriented strategies
Source Draft values from Opportunities to Reduce
Greenhouse Gas Emissions through Materials and
Land Management Practices. U.S. EPA.
(forthcoming).
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Opportunity Knocks
  • In 2006, the U.S. recycled over 80 million tons
    of municipal solid waste (32.5 recycling rate)
  • Equivalent to conserving 182 million metric tons
    of carbon dioxide equivalent (MMCO2E).
  • Recycling achieves short term, high impact, lower
    cost GHG reductions
  • Increase to 50 recycling nationally
  • 70-80 MMTCO2E per year potential GHG reductions
  • Increase to 100 recycling nationally
  • up to 300 MMTCO2E per year potential GHG
    reductions

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Grabbing the low hanging fruit
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Advancing Waste Climate ConnectionWest Coast
Climate Forum
  • Region 9/10 Partnership
  • Connecting Waste/Materials Management to Climate
    Change
  • 8 States
  • Engaging West Coast Leading Cities
  • Focus on Tools, Policy and Innovation

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6 Principles for TSCA Legislative Reform
  • Chemicals - reviewed against safety standards
    based on sound science and reflect risk-based
    criteria protective of human health and the
    environment.
  • Manufacturers provide necessary information to
    conclude that new and existing chemicals are safe
  • Risk management decisions should take into
    account sensitive subpopulations, cost,
    availability of substitutes and other relevant
    considerations
  • EPA should have clear authority to act - should
    assess and act on priority chemicals, both
    existing and new, in a timely manner
  • Green Chemistry encouraged, transparency and
    public access to information strengthened
  • EPA should be given a sustained source of funding
    for implementation

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Enhanced Chemical Management Program
  • New Regulatory Risk Management Actions
  • Lead
  • Mercury
  • Formaldehyde
  • PCBs
  • Glymes
  • Nano Materials Carbon Nano tubes

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Resources
  • Essential TSCA Reform Principles
  • http//www.epa.gov/oppt/existingchemicals/pubs/pri
    nciples.html
  • Enhanced Chemical Management Program
  • http//www.epa.gov/oppt/existingchemicals/pubs/enh
    anchems.html
  • National Partnership for Environmental Priorities
    (NPEP)
  • http//www.epa.gov/waste/partnerships/npep/index.h
    tm

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Evolution of the R9 RCRA Program
  • Emphasis on successful state implementation of
    waste program
  • Expand EPA presence on tribal lands and
    underserved communities
  • Moving beyond waste to achieve greater overall
    results
  • Multiple years of substantial resource cuts

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R9 EPA HW Enforcement Priorities
  • EJ Community Initiatives
  • Tribal Lands
  • High Noncompliance High Risk Sectors/Facilities
  • National Enforcement Initiatives
  • Mining/Mineral Processing
  • Financial Assurance reviews
  • Surface Impoundments
  • Ensuring a Level Playing Field

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PCBs
Suisun Bay, CA
Capacitors
Door jams
Electrical insulation
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PCBs in Caulk
Metropolitan Water District, CA
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LUST Cleanup Challenge
  • Continued challenge to close 14,000 LUSTs
  • American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009

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Greening Cleanups
  • Cleanup paradigm evolution
  • Protect HHE
  • Reuse contaminated land
  • Minimize climate/energy footprint of remedy
  • Better informed remedial decisions through
    Lifecycle Analysis of carbon, energy, and
    multi-media impacts

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LCA Greening Remedies
Transportation
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Greening ProductsElectronic Product
Environmental Assessment Tool
Greening ProductsElectronic Product
Environmental Assessment Tool
Green Standards for Electronics
EPEAT for Consumers?
  • Reductions Achieved
  • 4.4 MMTCO2E
  • 4,290 metric tons toxics

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Green Buildings
  • Greening Existing Buildings
  • GHG opportunities
  • ARRA ? Weatherizing homes
  • Residential Energy Star Homes
  • Indoor Air Issues
  • Healthy Schools
  • Collaborative for High Performance Schools
    (CHPS)- High Performance Building Products
    Database

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Home Energy Retrofit
  • Region 9 actions to support Home Energy
    Retrofits
  • Formed CA HERCC CA Home Energy Retrofit
    Coordinating Committee
  • Developing consistent standards and program
    elements for statewide utility-and
  • local government-sponsored programs
  • Contact Leif Magnuson magnuson.leif_at_epa.gov
  • For CA HERCC Recommendations, see
    http//www.builditgreen.org/home-energy-retrofit-p
    rograms-local-government

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  • Questions?

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