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Reducing the Carbon Footprint in South Carolina Ethan R. Ware 1441 Main Street, Suite 1250 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 Williams Mullen eware@williamsmullen.com 803-567-4610 Understanding How to Reduce Carbon Footprints is Simple 22

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Ethan R. Ware Williams Mullen

Reducing the Carbon Footprint in South Carolina

1441 Main Street, Suite 1250 Columbia, South Carolina 29201 eware@williamsmullen.com 803-567-4610

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Understanding How to Reduce Carbon Footprints is Simple…

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Overview

1. What is the Carbon Footprint?
2. How is EPA Tracking Your Carbon Footprint?
3. What do I do now?

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1-Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint: “Total amount of GHG produced to directly or indirectly support human activities, usually expressed in [CO2e].” Timeforchange.org

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1-Carbon Footprint

Generally:

Convert fuel consumption to CO2e.
1 gallon gasoline= 8.7 kg CO2e.

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1-Carbon Footprint

Carbon Footprint for Transportation to Conference

20 mpg
500 miles roundtrip
500/20= 25 gallons

CO2e= 8.7 Kgx25

217.5 Kg CO2e

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1-Carbon Footprint

But… That is just the beginning

5 plastic bags
2 water bottles
1/3 cheeseburger
Computer (32 hours)

All… 1 Kg CO2e

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2-EPA Tracking Obama’s One Fundamental Truth “Carbon pollution is the biggest driver of climate change…”

Obama White House

And…

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2-EPA Tracking

Manufacturing Industry is the Target.

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2-EPA Tracking

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2-EPA Tracking

Picture

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2-EPA Tracking

…So Obama’s EPA Promulgated CO2 Reporting Rule 40 CFR 98 (2009)

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2-EPA Tracking

Objective: Collect Carbon Data

Monitoring: January 1, 2010
Reports: September 30, 2011
12 New Sources: 2012
10,000 facilities
90% of GHG Emissions

NOTE: No GHG Controls… yet

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2-EPA Tracking

Key Elements:

1. Annual reports
41 Source Categories
6 Types Suppliers (fuel/industrial)
Geologic Sequestration
2. Threshold= 25,000 MT CO2
3. Electronic
4. EPA Verification

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2-EPA Tracking GHGs Reported

Methane
CO2e
N2O
Fluorinated GHGs

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2-EPA Tracking

Applicability: Two Types (1.) Source Specific

2010 EGU Aluminum Adipic Acid Ammonia Cement Nitric Acid Lime Petrochemical Silicon Soda Ash Titanium Dioxide 2011 CO2 Sequestration Use Electrical Equipment Manufacture Electrical Equipment Coal Mines

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2-EPA Tracking

(2.) Threshold Source: 25,000 tons

2010 Ferroalloy Glass Hydrogen Iron/Steel Lead Pulp/Paper Zinc 2011 Electronics Industrial WWTU Fluorinated GHG Industrial Landfills Magnesium Petroleum/Natural gas

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2-EPA Tracking

EPA Estimates: 25,000 MTCO2e Fuel Design (mmBtu/hr) Fuel Use Coal 33 10,800 (lbs) Fuel Oil 35 2.3 mm(gal) Natural Gas 50 460 mm (ft3)

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2-EPA Tracking Reporting, Monitoring, Recordkeeping (1.) General Provisions

CEMS

(2.) Source Specific

Process Parameters

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2-EPA Tracking

Report:

Identifying Information
Annual GHG (CO2e/ Speciate biomass)
Emissions Data (CEMS/Process

Parameter)

Verifications Data
Best Available Monitoring Methods

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2-EPA Tracking

Not Reported:

Indirect emissions (e.g. Electricity)
Mobile sources
Offsets

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2-EPA Tracking

Even Stationary Engines Covered:

RICE/ICE
Process Heaters
Turbines
Incinerations
Control Devices

NOTE: If Facility otherwise covered…

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2-EPA Tracking

Exceptions:

Portable equipment
Emergency Generators <100 hrs
Flares
Pilot Lights
Others…

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2-EPA Tracking

Summary: Your Air Permit

Recording and Reporting
GHGs
Emission Limits

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3-What do we Do?

To fix it, we have to identify the real problem to fix…

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3-What do we Do?

EPA Suggested Strategies for Reducing GHG… Focus on Industry.

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3-What do we Do?

EPA Strategies for Reducing Carbon

[Dana Hines, UNC-Ed. Dept.]

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3-What do we Do?

[Id.]

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3-What do we Do?

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3-What do we Do?

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3-What do we Do?

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3-What do we Do?

But are we “fixing” the right thing? Consider these Facts…

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3-What do we Do?

Fact No. 1: All life is Carbon

Fossil fuels are organic
“No CO2, No Planet…”

[Patrick Moore, Prager University]

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3-What do we Do?

Fact No. 2: CO2 is at an All-time Low in Atmosphere

“Cambrian Explosion”= 10x current

levels

5x CO2 “Optimum Level”

[Id.]

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3-What do we Do? Fact No. 3: Manmade Global Warming is - -

“Pseudo-science” [Tim Minnich,

Rutgers]

“Unproven” [Dr. Briggs, Cornell]
“Entrails of a Chicken” [Dr. Robert

Carter, James Cook University]

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3-What do we Do? Fact No. 4: We were wrong about Global Warming

Carbon budget “wrong”
“Next to impossible”
Temps will not rise 0.5ºC in 10 years
“Breathtaking” flaw in Climate Accord

Nature Geoscience (August 22, 2017)

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Summary Here is what we know…

1. Carbon Footprint measure Carbon release;
2. EPA is Tracking it as Pollutant;
3. We may Fix it, but for not affect temperature.