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CTDEEP Industrial Stormwater General Permit Reissuance

Posted: October 23rd, 2025

The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) reissued the industrial stormwater general permit (IGP) on October 1, 2025 with an effective date of November 1, 2025. The previous DEEP National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit for […]

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Turning Exposure Data Into Safer Workplaces

Posted: October 23rd, 2025

Understanding Workplace Airborne Hazards In many workplaces employees handle chemicals that can cause both immediate and long-term health effects. Whether it be in a research and development laboratory or a manufacturing environment, airborne contaminants can pose risks if not properly […]

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EHS Considerations in the Paperboard Converting Industry

Posted: October 23rd, 2025

While the process of converting paperboard into corrugated sheets and containers seems rather straightforward, there are a wide array of environmental, health, and safety (EHS) challenges faced when manufacturing these products. As experts in both the converting process and EHS […]

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New Stormwater Permit to Impact The Los Angeles And Los Alamitos Area

Posted: October 16th, 2025

The Los Angeles Regional Water Board (LA Water Board) has issued a revised draft General National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit (Permit) that will cover stormwater discharges from certain privately owned commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) sites within two […]

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Sunsetting Paper Manifests – Is It Finally Happening?

Posted: October 13th, 2025

The Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act (e-Manifest Act) was signed into law over 13 years ago in October 2012.  However, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) reports that over 99.5% of the over two million manifests received […]

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D.C Circuit Court Restores Title V Affirmative Defense

Posted: October 9th, 2025

In a September 5, 2025 decision, the D.C. Circuit reinstated the affirmative defense provisions under Title V operating permits.  The court found that the July 1, 2023 rule, which removed the affirmative defense provisions from Title V permits, was arbitrary […]

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Recent Electronic Reporting Updates

Posted: October 9th, 2025

Stay up-to-date with the latest changes to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA) Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface (CEDRI) and the Electronic Reporting Tool (ERT). The following updates are important to keep in mind as you submit […]

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ALL4 at the 2025 NCASI Annual Conference

Posted: October 2nd, 2025

Nine of us from ALL4 attended the 2025 NCASI Annual Conference this week in Atlanta, GA. NCASI is a technical association that serves the forest products industry by providing scientific research and technical information necessary to achieve the industry’s environmental […]

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