Ozone NAAQS Update
Posted: October 13th, 2015
As of October 1, 2015, the ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) revision has been finalized and set at 70 parts per billion (ppb), which is down only 5 ppb from the previous standard of 75 ppb, and represents the smallest change of the originally…
Read articleOzone Depleting Substances – They Could Burn a Hole in Your Pocket and the Ozone Layer!
Posted: October 9th, 2015
I don’t know what’s in your annual budget, but up to $32,500 a day per violation under the Clean Air Act (CAA) adds up pretty quickly and is a significant amount of money that could be saved by being proactive. Just some quick facts if that dollar amount hasn’t…
Read articleTop 5 Preparations for Air Compliance Inspections
Posted: October 5th, 2015
It happens every few years…it’s as certain as death and taxes and on a frequency somewhere in between…it’s your air compliance inspection by a regulatory agency. Maybe the last one went almost too easily, a walk in the park, or maybe you got hammered (root canal, anyone?…
Read article“Winning by Losing”…or Some Such Thing
Posted: October 5th, 2015
As previously discussed here by yours truly, on May 1, 2015, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit issued a decision to remand and vacate the so-called 100-hour “exemption” for RICE…
Read articleU.S. EPA Issues Long-Awaited Petroleum Refinery Rule Package
Posted: September 30th, 2015
On September 29, 2015, U.S. EPA issued the long-awaited Petroleum Refinery Rule Package. After considering more than 200,000 comments on the June 2014 proposed rule package, U.S. EPA issued the final revisions to the Maximum Achievable Control…
Read articleU.S. EPA Proposes Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) for the Oil and Natural Gas Industry
Posted: September 15th, 2015
On August 18, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) posted draft Control Techniques Guidelines (CTGs) for the oil and gas industry in order to reduce volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions from existing…
Read articleElectronic Reporting: Great in Theory
Posted: September 11th, 2015
As Sean described in his August blog, U.S. EPA has promulgated several regulations which require electronic reporting (“E-Reporting”) through its Compliance and Emissions Data Reporting Interface…
Read articleIt’s a Cluster#$%&…Top Challenges Facing Facilities Subject to SO2 Data Requirements Rule
Posted: September 10th, 2015
For a while now ALL4 has been writing about the Sulfur Dioxide (SO2) Data Requirements Rule (DRR), including our most recent update on the final SO2 DRR. For those who are new to the process…
Read articleFive Things to Consider Before the January 31, 2016 Major Source Boiler MACT Compliance Date
Posted: August 19th, 2015
You’ve determined whether your boilers or process heaters are subject to emissions limits, and if so, whether your affected sources can meet those limits. If not, you’ve evaluated options for reducing emissions so that they can meet those limits…
Read articleSulfur Dioxide (SO2) Data Requirements Rule (DRR): The Final Rule
Posted: August 19th, 2015
On August 10, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) submitted the final version of the DRR (40 CFR Part 51, Subpart BB) for the 2010 one (1)-hour sulfur dioxide (SO2) National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS). The final rule looks pretty familiar…
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