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August 2010

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"If we seize our growth as a challenge, we can make the 1970s an historic period when by conscious choice we transformed our land into what we want it to become." 
 
-- President Richard M. Nixon, State of the Union address, 1970


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NSR Permits Will Include GHG
Agency expects 13 states to add GHGs to New Source Review permitting implementation plans, and the rest to follow a federal implementation plan

The EPA on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, rolled out its official proposal for regulating greenhouse gases (GHGs) under the existing Clean Air Act framework. The agency proposed two rules requiring new facilities, or those that make major expansions, to obtain a permit that includes their GHG emissions. Under the GHG Tailoring Rule, beginning in 2011, projects that will increase GHG emissions substantially will require an air permit. [continue reading below]

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The Tailoring Rule covers large industrial facilities like power plants and oil refineries that are responsible for 70 percent of the GHGs from stationary sources. The proposals announced on Thursday will put every facility under U.S. control under the requirements, whether those are outlined by their state, or for most, by a federal plan.

In the first rule, the EPA proposed to require permitting programs in 13 states to make changes to their implementation plans to ensure that GHG emissions will be covered. These states are as follows...

Click here to continue reading this article on PE's website.


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EPA Publishes 2009 TRI Data

Issued the same month it was collected, the EPA has published the latest data on industrial releases and transfers of toxic chemicals in the United States between Jan. 1 and Dec. 31, 2009. This year, the agency made TRI data available within weeks of the reporting deadline through its website and online tools TRI Explorer and Envirofacts. The database contains environmental release and transfer data on nearly 650 chemicals and chemical categories reported to the agency by more than 21,000 industrial and other facilities.

Click here to continue reading this article on PE's website.

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SPCC Extended 1 Year
Most facilities will have until Nov. 10, 2011, but facilities on or near the shoreline will still have to be ready this fall, and the rest maybe sooner

The Spill Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) rule has been threatening to go into affect for well over a decade, and each time it has been extended due to various problems with the rule and widespread difficulties for facilities in fulfilling their SPCC requirements. The EPA recently extended this again to Nov. 10, 2010, but certain industries will have until November 2011 to get their plans squared away.

Offshore drilling, production, workover, and certain onshore facilities will not be eligible for the extension - these industries must still have a plan turned into the EPA by Nov. 10 (barring another extension). The agency explained the necessity of these industries supplying facility response plans (FRPs), due to the threats these facilities could pose of significant oil spills to navigable waters or adjoining shorelines.

Click here to continue reading this article, including a list of types of facilities that could get as much as a year of extention, on PE's website.


EPA: We Reject Your Global Warming Objections

The EPA on Thursday, July 29, 2010, denied 10 petitions challenging its 2009 determination that climate change is real, is occurring due to emissions of greenhouse gases from human activities, and threatens human health and the environment.

The petitions to reconsider the EPA's Endangerment Finding claimed that climate science cannot be trusted, and asserted a conspiracy that invalidates the findings of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program. After months of serious consideration of the petitions and of the state of climate change science, the EPA said it found no evidence to support these claims. In contrast, the EPA's review shows that climate science is credible, compelling and growing stronger.

Click here to continue reading this article on PE's website.


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GAO Investigates Feasibility of a Water Bank

Federal agencies have estimated that hundreds of billions of dollars will be needed over the next generation for construction and upgrades of America's water infrastructure. To assist with this enormous undertaking, Congress has been considering the formation of a federal National Infrastructure Bank to organize public and privately financed projects. Part of this consideration was to have the Government Accountability Office (GAO) talk to stakeholders about the idea, and also get a handle on what kind of financing (and where it has come from) is being talked about.

Click here to continue reading this article on PE's website.


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Mercury Limits for Cement Industry

The EPA on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, amended NESHAP, 40 CFR part 63, subpart LLL, issuing its final rules for controlling mercury, particle pollution and other pollutants from Portland cement manufacturing. This action sets the nation's first limits on mercury air emissions from existing cement kilns, strengthens the limits for new kilns, and also sets emission limits for total hydrocarbons, SO2, NOx and particulates at major and area sources. The limits will apply to New Source Performance Standards for cement kilns - those standards applying to new kilns will affect those that commenced construction or modification after May 6, 2009.

Click here to continue reading this article on PE's website.


Clean Coal Goes to Washington

The United States is sitting on the most world's most abundant and accessible deposits; if the world could be cleanly powered by coal, it could become an even larger economic boon to this country, perhaps as lucrative as oil in the Middle East, if we can make it work. That's a big "if," but according to a report just handed to the President, that "if" may be only a decade away.

President Obama's Interagency Task Force on Carbon Capture and Storage delivered on Thursday, Aug. 12, 2010, a series of recommendations to the president on overcoming barriers to the widespread, cost-effective deployment of CCS within 10 years.

Click here to continue reading this article on PE's website.


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30-02 Power Plant Air Pollutant Control Mega Symposium, Baltimore

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12-16 World Energy Congress, Montreal

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2-6 WEFTEC,  New Orleans

19-21 ISA Expo 10 , Houston

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3-4 Canadian Waste & Recycling Expo, Totonto

3-6 Eco Expo Asia, Hong Kong

30-03 Pollutec Captitale Environnement 2010, Lyon, France


Got a Question about Remediation?

Pollution Engineering has launched a new feature in our print edition. Ask the Experts pe_ask_the_experts will allow readers to share their remediation questions and receive direct answers from our highly respected remediation experts.

Readers may submit questions on PE's website (click on the image at right) on any technical question having to do with remedation. "Remediation" Ron Adams (that's what we like to call him at least) and his team of experts from ERFS have offered to field reader questions and share their expertise.

Those that might be of particular interest to our readers may be published in an upcoming edition of PE, but we will not print any information you prefer not to share.


EPA Wants More Chemical Information More Often

The EPA on Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2010, announced it is proposing several actions to strengthen reporting requirements for chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The EPA will request more detailed information under its Inventory Update Reporting Rule on volumes of chemical production, manufacturing facility data, and how the chemicals are used. The agency also is proposing to increase the frequency of reporting.

Click here to read the rest of this article on PE's website.


Texas Refuses to Control GHGs

Texas is refusing to write its state implementation plan for regulation greenhouse gases (GHGs), the most recent challenge to the EPA's efforts to combat climate change. Two top state officials, Bryan W. Shaw, Chairman of the Texas CEQ, and Attorney General Greg Abbott sent a six-page letter, dated Monday, Aug. 2, 2010, that explained the state's reasoning for resisting federal attempts to control GHG.

"On behalf of the State of Texas, we write to inform you that Texas has neither the authority nor the intention of interpreting, ignoring, or amending its laws in order to compel the permitting of greenhouse gas emissions," the officials wrote.

Click here to read the rest of this article on PE's website.

July Opinion Poll Results

You may have heard: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is turning 40 this year (PE hit the same milestone just last year). It's been a fun, at times bumpy ride from Ruckelshaus to Jackson. So we asked our readers what they see as some of the key breakthroughs, inventions, and turning points over 40 years of EPA. Teaser responses:

  • RTOs
  • Desktop computers and e-mail
  • Superfund
  • 1990 Clean Air Act changes

Look forward to PE's November 2010 issue, where we pay tribute to the EPA's 40th birthday (which is Dec. 2).


August 2010 Opinion Poll:

Not everyone can agree, even on science. In honor of the Clean Coal report and the EPA debating climate change skeptics in this issue, we thought we would ask our readers to pick out, in your opinion, the Myths from the Realities.


1. Myth or Reality. Please check the box beside each of the following concepts that you consider a "Myth." Remember: check the MYTHs only. If you think none are myths, click "Superman" only. If you think all are myths, click them all. If you think one is possible, it's not a myth. Ready......go!
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Climate change
Human culpability for climate change
Mankind can to halt/reverse climate change
Carbon capture and sequestration
Clean coal
Zero waste
Acid rain control in the U.S. has been a success
Clean soil
Closed-loop water treatment
A knowledgeable regulator
Plume modeling
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