Now Boarding: Mississippi Facilities to CAERS Version 5
Posted: March 12th, 2024
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Combined Air Emissions Reporting System (CAERS) is officially being rolled out to 11 Mississippi pilot facilities in 2024! U.S. EPA hosted a training in December 2023 with Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality […]
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Lime Manufacturing NESHAP Supplemental Proposal Issued
Posted: March 6th, 2024
A supplemental notice of proposed rulemaking to the 40 CFR Part 63, Subpart AAAAA (National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Lime Manufacturing Plants [Lime Manufacturing NESHAP]) was published in the February 9, 2024 Federal Register. The U.S. Environmental […]
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Proposed Changes to Project Emissions Accounting (PEA) Regulations
Posted: March 4th, 2024
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed proposed changes to the 2020 Project Emissions Accounting (PEA) provisions in the Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) and Nonattainment New Source Review (NNSR) regulations on February 22, 2024. Collectively, the PSD and NNSR […]
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2024 Look Ahead: New Oil and Gas Greenhouse Gas Requirements
Posted: January 23rd, 2024
Changes to the Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources (NSPS) for oil and gas operations have been in the works for several years, dating back to the prior administration. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently finalized a rule […]
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2024 Look Ahead: Chemical Industry Rules and RMP Revisions
Posted: January 18th, 2024
Chemical Industry Rules This year is going to be a big year for the chemical manufacturing industry. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is under a consent decree to finish revisions to several National Emission Standards for Hazardous […]
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2024 Look Ahead: Battery Safety and Compliance
Posted: January 9th, 2024
As we look ahead to the lithium-ion battery industry in 2024, let’s first examine why we should be so interested in this segment of the United States (U.S.) economy. In 2022, the number of light-duty vehicles (cars) registered in the […]
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PM2.5 NAAQS Lookahead: Revision of the Annual Standard is Imminent
Posted: January 9th, 2024
Another year has gone by and another lookahead article about potential lowering of the particulate matter less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) is front and center. In last year’s lookahead article I wrote about the […]
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Recap of the CAPCA 2023 Fall Technical Workshop and Forum
Posted: December 20th, 2023
This year’s fall Carolinas Air Pollution Control Association (CAPCA) technical workshop and forum included a football tailgate party exhibitor social, golf outing, and of course several technical topics of interest to those located in the Carolinas. In addition to the […]
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Proposed Amendments to National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Rubber Tire Manufacturing
Posted: December 4th, 2023
On November 16, 2023, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) published a proposed rule that would establish first time emissions standards for the rubber processing subcategory in the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Rubber Tire […]
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New Mexico’s Oil and Gas Ozone Precursor Rule – the Compliance Deadlines are Coming Up!
Posted: November 6th, 2023
The New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) finalized the Oil and Gas Sector – Ozone Precursor Pollutants Rule (NM Oil and Gas Rule) back in August 2022 under New Mexico Administrative Code (NMAC) 20.2.50. The NM Oil and Gas Rule […]
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