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Category: Special Topics in Environmental Management
TRI Reporting Essentials
The TRI reporting deadline is approaching. This infographic provides essential information to help determine if you need to report.
How Well Do You Know Your UST Release Detection System?
Last summer, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) updated its underground storage tank (UST) regulations for the first time in over 2 decades. With this update, owners and operators of UST systems have additional compliance requirements—including new obligations for release detection.
Proposal Would Ease SIP Conflicts
With a new proposal, the EPA is seeking to introduce regulatory reforms intended to smooth over conflicts that have developed in the Agency’s relationship with states submitting state implementation plans (SIPs) to improve visibility in federal Class I areas as specified by Section 169A of the Clean Air Act (CAA). Most of the conflicts between […]
FIP Issued for Existing Sludge Incinerators
The EPA has promulgated a federal implementation plan (FIP) to control emissions of nine pollutants from existing sewage sludge incinerators (SSIs), that is, those for which construction began on or before October 14, 2010. The intent of the FIP is to implement EPA’s March 21, 2011, emissions guidelines (EGs) for the existing SSIs. According to […]
Regs for AST Owners on the Horizon
The National Institute for Storage Tank Management (NISTM) recently held the 18th International Aboveground Storage Tank Conference and Trade Show in Orlando, Florida. The 4-day conference provides the regulated community forecasted energy outlooks and a variety of advanced technological solutions and products. Each year the conference attracts tank owners and operators with an EPA-hosted practical […]
New Climate Change and Health Document Includes Effects on Workers
The potential health effects of climate change on workers is now available in a new report just released by the U.S. Global Change Research Program. The report, U.S. Global Change Research Program Climate and Health Assessment provides a comprehensive overview of the potential health effects of climate change across the United States. Included in the […]
EPA Says Cost of Compliance with MATS is Reasonable
In one of his last authored opinions on environmental law, the late Justice Antonin Scalia expressed the will of a 5–4 Supreme Court majority in Michigan v. EPA (No. 14–46 June 29, 2015) when he wrote that the EPA had erred when it determined that it was appropriate and necessary under Section 112 of the […]
Boiler MACT
Q. Will a source having four large gas fired boilers with fuel oil back up trigger the Boiler Maximum Achievable Control Technology Standards (MACT) if it burns oil to avoid high natural gas prices?
Can Lawmakers Extend NAAQS Reviews?
The air regulatory agencies and industries of many states have been frustrated by EPA’s decision to revise its National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone in 2015. One of the major complaints is that the 2008 ozone NAAQS are still in effect. Therefore, states now face the prospect of implementing two different ozone standards […]