THE BIG PICTURE: Clean Power Plan Targets for Better and Worse The Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Clean Power Plan (CPP), finalized on Aug. 3, seeks to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in the power sector by setting a unique emissions percentage target for each state to achieve by 2030. Here's how those targets compare with those in the proposed rule. State targets have changed drastically in some cases, owing to tweaks to the EPA's formulas for calculating baseline emission levels and final goals. Another key difference is that the EPA had proposed taking into account each state's energy efficiency potential, but it chose not to do so in the final rule. -Copy and artwork by Sonal Patel, a POWER associate editor EPA-SET CARBON INTENSITY REDUCTION TARGETS FOR U.S. STATES UNDER THE PROPOSED " CLEAN POWER PLAN " WASH. MAINE MONT. ORE. IDAHO WYO. NEB. NEV. UTAH COLO. CALIF. ARIZ. N.M. OKLA. OKL ARK. ALA. MISS. TEXAS HAWAII ALASKA LA. FLA. FLA. GA. KAN. MO. KY. TEN S.C. IOWA ILL. IND. OHIO W.VA. N.C. VA. S.D. N.D. VT. MINN. WIS. MICH. PA. N.Y. N.J. MD. DEL. N.H. MASS. CONN. R.I. No reduction 1%-20% 21-30% 31-35% 36-40% 41-45% 46-50% 51-55% >70% FINAL STATE TARGETS WASH. MAINE MONT. ORE. IDAHO WYO. NEB. NEV. UTAH COLO. CALIF. ARIZ. N.M. OKLA. OKL ARK. ALA. MISS. TEXAS HAWAII ALASKA FLA. LA. GA. W.VA. KAN. MO. TENN. KY. N.C. VA. S.C. IOWA ILL. IND. OHIO S.D. N.D. VT. MINN. WIS. MICH. PA. N.Y. N.J. MD. DEL. N.H. MASS. CONN.R.I. No reduction 1%-20% 21-30% 31-35% 36-40% 41-45% 46-50% 51-55% >70% 10 www.powermag.com POWER | October 2015http://www.powermag.com