“Here We Go Again” – 2025 New Source Review Look Ahead
Posted: January 13th, 2025
It’s January 6, 2025 and exactly eight years since the beginning of the first Trump administration. In order to look ahead, I first needed to “look back” to January 2017 to see what my colleague, John Egan, wrote in a […]
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U.S. EPA Releases TANKS 5.1
Posted: December 18th, 2024
On October 9, 2024, United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) released version 5.1 of their TANKS software in conjunction with updates to Section 7.1 – Organic Liquid Storage Tanks of the AP-42 Compilation of Air Pollutant Emission Factors. TANKS […]
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U.S. EPA Finalizes Revisions to the Secondary NAAQS
Posted: December 18th, 2024
On December 10, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) issued its finalized revisions to the secondary National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The relatively minor proposed changes, first proposed in April 2024, only affect the secondary standards […]
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U.S. EPA Releases Proposed Updates to Stationary Combustion Turbines NSPS
Posted: December 4th, 2024
On November 22, 2024, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the first of what is expected to be three new or revised rules related to the emissions of criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gasses (GHG) for stationary combustion turbines. […]
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U.S. EPA Has Revised its Standards for New and Modified Volatile Organic Liquid Storage Tanks
Posted: November 13th, 2024
On October 15, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) published final amendments to the Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources, or New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), for Volatile Organic Liquid (VOL) Storage Vessels (Including Petroleum Liquid Storage […]
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CISWI Federal Plan Finalized
Posted: October 16th, 2024
On September 16, 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) signed a final rule containing the Federal Plan requirements at 40 CFR Part 62, Subpart IIIa to implement the emissions guidelines for existing facilities under the commercial and industrial […]
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Updates on the Lowered PM2.5 NAAQS
Posted: September 10th, 2024
It’s been four months since the lowered annual particulate matter less than 2.5 microns (PM2.5) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) became effective on May 6, 2024, and seven months since my last 4TR article on the topic. I thought […]
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New Jersey Environmental Justice Impact Statement Guidance
Posted: July 31st, 2024
On April 17, 2023, the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection (NJDEP) published the Environmental Justice (EJ) Rule under New Jersey Administrative Code (N.J.A.C.) 7:1C. The EJ Rule is applicable to any major source facility, or other type of facility […]
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U.S. EPA Finalizes Benzene Fenceline Monitoring for Coke Oven Facilities
Posted: July 17th, 2024
In August of 2023, ALL4 covered the proposed monitoring amendments to the National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for Coke Ovens: Pushing, Quenching, and Battery Stacks (PQBS) and Coke Oven Batteries (COB) at 40 CFR Part 63, Subparts […]
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Recent SCOTUS Decisions of Interest
Posted: July 10th, 2024
Generally, congress makes laws (also known as statutes), the agencies like the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) write regulations based on those laws, and the courts judge whether the regulation or implementation of the regulation is within the scope of […]
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