The Difficulties With Attaining Compliance With Environmental Regulations – An Ode to the Environmental Compliance Manager
Posted: September 12th, 2013
If you are an environmental compliance manager today with college age children you are probably encouraging them to become dentists or orthodontists, and not to follow in your footsteps as an environmental compliance manager. Arguably one of the toughest positions […]
Read articleGreenhouse Gas Speculation at Existing Power Plants
Posted: August 27th, 2013
It’s been nearly two (2) months since President Obama released his Climate Action Plan (Plan) on June 25, 2013. In his Plan…
Read articleHey Pennsylvania Unconventional Oil & Gas Producers: You Got a Permit for That?
Posted: August 26th, 2013
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) has finalized updates to its list of Air Quality Permit Exemptions, specifically Categories No. 33 and 38…
Read articleFinal Amendments to 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO
Posted: August 14th, 2013
On August 2, 2013, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) finalized revisions to the storage vessel provisions of 40 CFR Part 60 Subpart OOOO – Standards of Performance for Crude Oil…
Read articleFive Considerations of Being a CISWI Unit
Posted: August 1st, 2013
With so much talk of boilers and heaters since the 4 Rules were published in early 2013, most facilities are focused on developing an understanding and strategy to comply with the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards for Boilers (commonly […]
Read article7th Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds Statute of Limitation in NSR Enforcement Case
Posted: July 26th, 2013
In a very interesting ruling that, at first glance, would appear to have major ramifications to how U.S. EPA pursues New Source Review (NSR) enforcement cases…
Read articleYou are NOT Subject to a NESHAP Standard…Now What?
Posted: July 23rd, 2013
With all of the activity surrounding National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) lately (boilers, internal combustion engines, and a slew of new and sometimes obscure area source standards)…
Read articleNice While It Lasted: Biogenic CO2 Exemption From Tailoring Rule Struck Down
Posted: July 22nd, 2013
The D.C. Circuit Court threw out the biogenic CO2 exemption from air permitting activities under the Federal Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Tailoring Rule on July 12, 2013…
Read articlePolicy On Public Participation
Posted: July 2nd, 2013
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) has issued a draft revised guideline for public participation in the permit review process for permits or other applicable authorization application submitted for Department review. The draft document establishes…
Read articleAddressing Environmental Justice in the Permitting Process
Posted: June 28th, 2013
On February 11, 1994, Executive Order 12898 Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low-Income Populations was issued. Executive Order 12898 calls on each Federal agency to make achieving environmental justice part of its mission. Since that […]
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