Industrial Stormwater Links & Guidance, Minnesota PCA

Lots of useful tips and guidance on this web site provided by the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency:

MPCA Industrial Stormwater Home Page

"Running With Oil" Stories About North Dakota's Oil Boom

""Running with Oil,” a series of reports on North Dakota’s booming oil industry, appeared Aug. 15 through Aug. 22 2010 in the North Dakota newspapers of Forum Communications Co.: The Dickinson Press, The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead, the Grand Forks Herald and the Jamestown Sun. Each day of the series is archived on this site. Choose the day you'd like to view from the navigation bar above." (Click on title to go to home page.)

North Dakota O&G Map

Zoom in to location of any well or gas plant within the state.

Legal Challenge to MACT Methodology

Challenge is based on two points:

• EPA looks at separate facilities acheiving low emission rates for distinct pollutants, then combines all those into one standard.
• EPA bases their achievability determinations on performance for a single year, ignoring multi-year variability.

Because of these two factors, EPA's MACT floors are not "achieved in practice."

InsideEPA.com Article

Amendments to Cement MACT & NSPS

"On August 6, 2010, EPA issued amendments to two rules that will significantly reduce emissions of mercury and other air toxics and particle-forming pollutants from new and existing Portland cement kilns across the United States. The rules also will limit emissions of ozone- and particle-forming pollutants from new kilns."

Cement MACT-NSPS Fact Sheet

Final Rule 9/9/2010

Flare Guidance (Modeling, Emissions, etc)

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Flare Modeling Guidance from NDDH

Iowa DNR guidance and spreadsheet tool -- links on this page

Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission


(updated post 8/19/2011, KMM)
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Proposed Transport Rule (CAIR Replacement) Article

"A new rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would regulate emissions from coal-fired power plants in Eastern and Midwestern states.[1] Known as the Transport Rule, EPA’s proposed regulation replaces EPA’s Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR), which would have established an interstate trading program for sulfur dioxide (SO2) and nitrogen oxides (NOx) emissions from power plants."

Proposed Transport Rule Article
(Martin Law article)