4 The Record is a publication from ALL4’s team that takes an in-depth look at technical and regulatory topics.
Pennsylvania Expands Scope of Greenhouse Gas Reporting to Smaller Facilities
Posted: January 17th, 2013
If you happen to be a facility located in Pennsylvania and are required to submit an Annual Inventory and Emission Statement to the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) by March 1…
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Air Permitting Gets Less Complicated Each Year…Said No One Ever: How the Aggregation Test Just Got More Complicated
Posted: January 14th, 2013
For those involved in Title V or New Source Review (NSR) permitting, the concept of aggregation and the three-pronged litmus test to define a “single source” has long (over 30 years) been based on the following…
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Final Major Source Boiler MACT: (Some) Good Things Come to Those Who Waited!
Posted: January 11th, 2013
Happy New Year! This New Year has brought the 4 Rules into the spotlight as U.S. EPA issued pre-publication versions of the final rules on December 20, 2012. We have spent the holidays digging into these rules…
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U.S. EPA Semiannual Regulatory Agenda Highlights
Posted: January 8th, 2013
The U.S. EPA published their semiannual regulatory agenda online (the e-Agenda) on December 21, 2012 to update the public about: Regulations and major policies currently under development…
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Score One for the Cement Industry (For Now)
Posted: January 3rd, 2013
On December 20, 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) issued a final rule amending the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) from the Portland Cement…
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Additional Requirements for the Next Round of GHG Reporting
Posted: December 31st, 2012
In 2011 U.S. EPA deferred the requirement to report certain data elements in annual Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Inventory Reports required by 40 CFR Part 98 (the GHG Reporting Rule). Because reporters expressed concerns…
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ALL4’s: Is That Your Final Answer?
Posted: December 31st, 2012
Test your knowledge across the environmental field, on the building blocks of air quality rules, on ALL4 general trivia, and with brain teasers that have perplexed us…Take on ALL4’s Is That Your Final Answer?
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Looking Towards 2013 from a Consultant’s Perspective
Posted: December 28th, 2012
Here we are again at year’s end, another year older and wiser (hopefully). We made it through another election, the “fiscal cliff,” Hurricane Sandy, the Mayan end of the world, and the final episode of the Jersey Shore MTV series. […]
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End of the World or Not – U.S. EPA Issues the Final Rule for Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources NESHAP
Posted: December 27th, 2012
On the heels of Christina Giannascoli’s November 5, 2012 blog, today’s blog provides an update to the status of the reconsidered and stayed Chemical Manufacturing Area Sources NESHAP…
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Reading Material for the Holidays: U.S. EPA Finalizes 4 Rules
Posted: December 21st, 2012
As rumored, U.S. EPA has released the final versions of the 4 Rules – the Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) standards for Major and Area Source Boilers (Boiler MACT), Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incineration (CISWI), and Nonhazardous Secondary Materials (NHSM) rules. Finalized just three days shy…
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