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Wednesday, May 16, 2012
As part of President Obama’s 2010 National Export Initiative, EPA and the Department of Commerce announced that a new web-based tool will soon be made available to assist U.S. environmental companies in promoting American environmental technology, products, and services in the global marketplace.
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One top item in EPA’s August 2011 Final Plan for Periodic Retrospective Reviews was elimination of the Clean Air Act’s Stage II vapor recovery requirements for higher throughput gasoline dispensing facilities (GDF). The Agency has now followed through with a final rule that allows states in current or former ozone nonattainment areas to seek EPA approval of state implementation plan (SIP) revisions that remove the Stage II requirements.
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Friday, May 11, 2012
As part of its Design for the Environment (DfE) program, EPA has issued a re port assessing eight environmentally preferable alternatives to nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE), a class of popular surfactants that at low concentrations are lethal to fish and other aquatic organisms.
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Thursday, May 10, 2012
In a new advisory bulletin, the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) is reminding operators that they must possess valid records verifying the maximum allowable operating pressure (MAOP) for gas pipelines and maximum operating pressure (MOP) for hazardous liquid pipelines. The bulletin specifically addresses verification of records to confirm MAOP for gas transmission pipelines in Class 3 and Class 4 locations and in Class 1 and Class 2 locations in high consequence areas (HCAs).
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
Energy companies should be seeing more consistency in one type of hydraulic fracturing permit now that EPA has released draft guidance on how Class II underground injection control (UIC) permits should be written when diesel fuel is used in the fracking injectate.
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