4 The Record is a publication from ALL4’s team that takes an in-depth look at technical and regulatory topics.
WANTED: Emission Reduction Credits
Posted: January 11th, 2012
Don’t be left looking for Emission Reduction Credits! If you are a Major Facility for air quality permitting, you may not be aware that there is an increasing demand for Emission Reduction Credits (ERCs). ERCs represent real emissions decreases and […]
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Wouldn’t It Be Nice to Have a Permit That Allowed Flexibility?
Posted: January 11th, 2012
What is a Flexible Permit? In U.S. EPA’s own words, “a flexible air permit is a Title V permit that facilitates flexible, market responsive operations at a source through the use of one or more permitting approaches, while ensuring equal […]
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Climate Change and Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Posted: January 11th, 2012
The process of establishing regulations to address climate change is beginning to accelerate in the United States. Despite the fact that no regulatory programs specifically mandating greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions exist, several air quality permits have recently been denied at […]
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Are you on the U.S. EPA’s Enforcement Priorities Radar?
Posted: January 10th, 2012
On October 12, 2007, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) published their national enforcement and compliance assurance priorities for fiscal years 2008, 2009, and 2010 in the federal register. The multi-year national enforcement and compliance assurance priorities are […]
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Boilers, Solid Waste, and the CAA….Oh My!
Posted: January 10th, 2012
U.S. EPA’s Core Four: DSW Rule, Major Source Boiler Rule, Area Source Boiler Rule, and CISWI Rule While the regulated community is just coming to grips with the most recent changes to four of the National Ambient Air Quality Standards […]
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Blindsided: Your Facility’s Emergency Reciprocating Internal Combustion Engine(s) (RICE) Could Potentially Cause a Compliance Issue That You Didn’t See Coming
Posted: January 9th, 2012
The Proverbial Skeleton in Your Facility’s Closet They’re there, lurking in the shadows. The nondescript metal box or hulking chunk of ancient metal stoically waiting out back behind the office building, maintenance shed, or material storage silo. It might be […]
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Multipollutant Rules: What’s In Store?
Posted: January 9th, 2012
There is significant discussion in the regulatory and regulated community regarding the trend towards “multipollutant” rules. U.S. EPA’s current focus on “multipollutant” rules can be traced to a publication entitled “Air Quality Management in the United States,” prepared as a […]
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Marcellus Drilling Operations: Air Quality Requirements Overview
Posted: January 9th, 2012
Introduction For as much excitement as there has been about the potential benefits of drilling in the Marcellus Shale from the perspective of energy needs and employment opportunities, it is also hard to ignore the sometimes vociferous opposition from environmentalists […]
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FINALLY!! Guidance and Updated Programs Catch Up With New 1-Hour NAAQS
Posted: January 9th, 2012
Introduction There has recently been a flurry of activity on U.S. EPA’s Support Center for Regulatory Atmospheric Modeling (SCRAM) website. U.S. EPA’s Air Quality Modeling Group (AQMG) has been busy updating the AERMOD air dispersion model and its supporting pre-processors to […]
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Air Quality, Acronyms, and Midstream Marcellus Operations
Posted: January 9th, 2012
In the March 2011 issue of 4 The Record, ALL4’s Marcellus Gas team provided a general overview of air quality requirements surrounding drilling operations. Drilling, along with exploration, and the physical process of bringing gas to the surface are part […]
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