4 The Record is a publication from ALL4’s team that takes an in-depth look at technical and regulatory topics.
U.S. EPA to Publish Aggregated Confidential Greenhouse Gas Information
Posted: August 1st, 2014
Psssst! Did you hear that U.S EPA might have plans to publish Confidential Business Information (CBI) submitted under 40 CFR Part 98 (Mandatory Greenhouse Gas Reporting Rule)?…
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Data Requirements Rule (DRR): An Update on the 1-Hour SO2 NAAQS
Posted: July 31st, 2014
Back in July 2010, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) published a final 1-hour sulfur dioxide (SO2) National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS)…
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GHG-Only Permitting Changes – Do You Know What Your State is Doing?
Posted: July 30th, 2014
On June 23, 2014, the U.S. Supreme Court reversed the course of part of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (U.S. EPA’s) Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Tailoring Rule, deciding that…
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Pennsylvania Cat 38 Exemption Recordkeeping and Compliance Demonstration Requirements
Posted: July 28th, 2014
The Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (PADEP) Categorical 38 (Cat 38) Exemption has allowed certain oil and gas exploration, development, and production facilities
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Year 1 at ALL4
Posted: July 28th, 2014
Next week marks the completion of my first year at ALL4 (and my first year in the “real world”). So far, I’ve been able to…
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U.S. EPA Proposes Additional Standards of Performance for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills
Posted: July 25th, 2014
On July 17, 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) issued the results of its initial review of the existing New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) for municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills…
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U.S. EPA Defends Its Major Source Boiler MACT Floor Calculation Methodology
Posted: July 21st, 2014
Those of you following the saga of the Major Source Boiler MACT remand (see our March 17, 2014 and May 22, 2014 blogs for a refresher) will be interested to learn that latest milestone in the process occurred on July 14, 2014. Back in May 2014, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) was granted 60 days to provide further explanation to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on the use of the upper prediction limit (UPL) statistical method to set the emission standards for certain subcategories in the Major Source Boiler MACT rule.
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Environmental Consulting Firms: Is bigger really better?
Posted: July 17th, 2014
We recently warmly welcomed Jennifer Flannery and Renee Cheng as our newest ALL4 members. Both women chose to leave a larger environmental consulting firm for ALL4, a “smaller” (hmm, for now) consulting company…
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Proposed GHG Standards – Comments on Standards for New Sources
Posted: July 15th, 2014
Although the deadline to submit public comments was November 29, 2013, the September 2013 proposed rule for new EGUs continues to receive its fair share of criticism amongst industry, political groups, and environmentalists alike. One argument at play is that […]
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U.S. EPA’s Proposed Greenhouse Gas Standards for the Utility Industry – How Powerful Are They?
Posted: July 15th, 2014
A major event in the Climate Change arena occurred on March 27, 2012 when, for the first time, U.S. EPA proposed Standards of Performance for New Stationary Sources (NSPS) for emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2). The proposed standards were specific […]
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