Ethylene MACT ICR Component II: It’s Here! What’s Your Game Plan?
Posted: May 23rd, 2016
The long awaited Component II of U.S. EPA’s Ethylene Production Section 114 Information Collection Request (ICR) has been issued. Ethylene production facilities were issued Component I in July 2014 with the ‘promise’ of an upcoming Component II to collect test data from certain…
Read articleU.S. EPA Issues Draft Information Collection Request for Existing Oil & Gas Facilities
Posted: May 17th, 2016
On May 12, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a draft Information Collection Request (ICR) that when final, will require existing oil and natural gas facilities to provide extensive information on facility operations. The U.S. EPA has deemed this information…
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U.S. EPA Issued Final Updates to the Suite of Methane Rules for the Oil & Natural Gas Industry
Posted: May 17th, 2016
On May 12, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took a huge step forward with their plan to reduce methane emissions from the oil and natural gas industry. This “huge step forward” was the issuance of three final rules…
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The Forecast Calls for a Mixed Bag of Options for the SSM SIP Call
Posted: May 5th, 2016
Our staff at ALL4 includes meteorologists who still have that weather forecasting bug in them. Our business is air quality consulting, and we are often asked about our short-term and long-term forecasts on air quality regulations and how they may […]
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RACT 2 Rule Published: Clock Starts on RACT 2 Proposals – “The trouble is, you think you have time.” – Gautama Buddha
Posted: May 5th, 2016
The internet is confused and gives me contradictory answers as to whether the title of this blogpost is a legitimate quote uttered by the Buddha himself or a paraphrase – authored by some Western scholar and without context I’m sure – of a Buddhist teaching. If I was…
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Who We Are…
Posted: May 1st, 2016
A week or so ago one of our Project Managers asked me to get on a call with our client and a regulator in an Upper Midwestern state where we’ve done a reasonable amount of work over the past few years. There were some unique aspects…
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What Will Compliance in the Next Generation Look Like for New Oil and Gas Operations?
Posted: April 27th, 2016
For the past few years, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) has been talking about a “…modern approach to compliance, taking advantage of new tools and approaches…” that they refer to as Next Generation Compliance. Overall, Next Generation Compliance…
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Vacatur of the 50 and 100-hour Nonemergency “Exemption” Provisions…What Does It All Mean? Some Much Needed Clarity
Posted: April 27th, 2016
On May 1, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision which vacated (rendered null and void) portions of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Stationary Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engines…
Read articleRecap of the Georgia A&WMA Spring 2016 Regulatory Update Conference
Posted: April 13th, 2016
If you were not able to attend the Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) Georgia Chapter Spring Regulatory Update Conference on March 29, 2016, you are in luck because ALL4 was there! The conference consisted of U.S. Environmental Protection Agency…
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Attention Existing Oil & Gas Sources – Information Collection Request and Emissions Regulations are Looming
Posted: April 4th, 2016
On March 10, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that they are moving to regulate existing oil and natural gas sources as their next step in reducing emissions from the oil and gas industry. This announcement comes only a few months after the U.S. EPA’s…
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