Pod Technologies: Update: 11/2008

US EPA Suspends Requirements for Source Testers

On November 4, 2008 the US EPA suspended amended regulations on competency requirements for air emission testing bodies (AETB). The rule revisions would have required that stack testers and stack test companies meet certain minimum competency requirements described in ASTM D7036 - 04 by January 1, 2009. The Utility Air Regulatory Group (UARG) filed a Petition for Review primarily claiming that US EPA could not hold utilities responsible for something they cannot control. It is expected that the rule language will be amended, and that the competency requirements will be reinstated at some point in the future.

Stay of the Effectiveness of Requirements for Air Emission Testing Bodies. (pdf, 3 pp. 55kB)

11/06/2008

Northeast States Petition US EPA for Hg Emission Reductions

Six New England states and New York last week asked the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) to require Midwestern and Mid-Atlantic coal plants to clean up their smokestack mercury (Hg) emissions. The seven states have claimed that mercury pollution from Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Ohio, West Virginia, Maryland, Michigan, and elsewhere, is contaminating the Northeast's fish and waterways and directly threatening public health and the environment.

Northeast states petition EPA to require coal plant mercury emission reductions. Power News, 11/05/2008

11/05/2008

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