4 The Record is a publication from ALL4’s team that takes an in-depth look at technical and regulatory topics.
Water Quality Compliance in the Trump Era
Posted: January 29th, 2025
With anticipated budget cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) under the incoming Trump administration, environmental groups are emphasizing the importance of state action to regulate industrial discharges under the Clean Water Act (CWA). As federal priorities are […]
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2025 Look Ahead – Data Centers
Posted: January 29th, 2025
Data centers can get a bad rap – large buildings near residential areas, consuming power, drawing water, creating an inescapable hum. No industry is perfect. But what else? Data centers generate large tax revenues for localities (and in Loudoun County, […]
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Looking Ahead – Fenceline Monitoring
Posted: January 28th, 2025
In 2024, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) finalized new fenceline monitoring requirements associated with amendments to Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) associated […]
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Chemicals and Ethylene Oxide Lookahead
Posted: January 27th, 2025
Continuing the momentum of the past several years as the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) is conducting its required periodic reviews of air rules, 2025 promises to bring additional changes to regulations for the chemical industry, including users […]
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Environmental Justice Lookahead: Rollback of Environmental Justice at the Federal Level is Here
Posted: January 22nd, 2025
Environmental Justice (EJ) continued to be a cornerstone of the Biden administration in 2024, seeing the administration award nearly $2 billion in EJ and climate justice related funds to communities and award nearly $69 billion in […]
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Connecticut’s IGP: Public Comment & Summary of Changes for 2nd Draft Permit
Posted: January 22nd, 2025
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) Water Permitting and Enforcement Division (WPED) is in the process of reissuing their National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) industrial stormwater general permit (IGP), a general permit that follows the multi-sector […]
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U.S. Power Sector: Looking Ahead to 2025
Posted: January 22nd, 2025
The power sector in the United States is poised to change significantly in the next 25 years. The rate of power generation has remained relatively flat over the past 20 years, largely due to the wide scale deployment of residential […]
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2025 Lookahead: Resiliency Planning in Stormwater
Posted: January 21st, 2025
Though the vast majority of industrial facilities in the United States with stormwater discharge maintain stormwater permit coverage issued by their State, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) serves as a guide to states […]
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Looking Ahead – Air Toxics Regulatory Activity
Posted: January 21st, 2025
The last few years have seen a flurry of revisions to air toxics regulations, due primarily to a court case referred to as “LEAN” where the court determined that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) should have set more […]
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Making Sense of the New BASEL E-waste Notification Requirements
Posted: January 21st, 2025
Starting January 1st, 2025, electronic waste and scrap shipments are subject to Basel Convention requirements. Basel Party countries exporting e-waste and scrap must obtain the importing country’s consent prior to initiating the shipments. From an environmental regulatory perspective, the Basel […]
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