September 2018 Solutions Guide Emissions Solutions Emission Housings & Silencers Engine Silencers Controls System Components Services & Resources In this issue Ex-EPA officials urge Wheeler to change direction of agency. Update to EPA policy on “Common Control” for major source determinations. MIRATECH Rolls Out The Beast. California responds to Trump’s call to rescind state’s authority. Hard to see, hard to breathe: U.S. West struggles with smoke and PM 2.5. Children change the climate of US Supreme Court – first climate lawsuit goes forward. EPA rewrite of Clean Power Plan rule could let some coal plants keep running – and stay dirty. Ex-EPA officials urge Wheeler to change direction of agency. A group of former officials with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are urging acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler to turn the agency around following a number of decisions they are calling reckless according to an August 8, 2018 report from The Hill. Four former EPA air office heads, as well as former Obama-era Administrator Gina McCarthy, ... Back to top Update to EPA policy on “Common Control” for major source determinations. In order to determine whether equipment and processes that emit air pollutants are part of a major source for purposes of air permitting, companies must apply a three-factor test according to a July 16, 2018 report from Trinity Consultants. Emission units which meet all of the following criteria are aggregated: Belong to the same industrial ... Back to top MIRATECH Rolls Out The Beast. EmeraChem acquisition fuels launch of new products MIRATECH seems to have a thing for its competitors. The Tulsa, Oklahoma-based emission and acoustical products provider tends to share the marketplace with similar companies at first, but as the years rolls by, those competitors end up under the MIRATECH umbrella according to a July 2018 Product Focus ... Back to top California responds to Trump’s call to rescind state’s authority. In late July 2018 President Donald Trump proposed gutting California’s unique ability to write greenhouse gas emissions limits for cars and trucks. Now California is firing its own heavy artillery. The state plans to force car makers to continue complying with Sacramento’s rules, even if Trump weakens those set in Washington according to an August ... Back to top Hard to see, hard to breathe: U.S. West struggles with smoke and PM 2.5. Smoke from wildfires clog the sky across the U.S. West. On August 20, 2018 they blotted out mountains and city skylines from Oregon to Colorado, delaying flights and forcing authorities to tell even healthy adults in the Seattle area to stay indoors according to an August 20, 2018 Chicago Tribune report via the Associated Press. ... Back to top Children change the climate of US Supreme Court – first climate lawsuit goes forward. On July 30, 2018 the U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously in favor of the 21 youth plaintiffs in the constitutional climate change lawsuit filed against the federal government, Juliana v. United States, according to an August 3, 2018 Forbes report. The plaintiffs allege that the United States government's affirmative actions caused climate change, violated the ... Back to top EPA rewrite of Clean Power Plan rule could let some coal plants keep running – and stay dirty. One of the main advancements of the past half-century at coal-burning power plants has been the “scrubber,” a clean-air device that played a major role in ending the acid-rain crisis of the 1970s and that removes millions of tons a year of a pollutant blamed for respiratory disease. However, the Trump administration’s proposed rewrite of ... Back to top Emissions and Noise Control Solutions  Catalysts  3-Way Catalyst NSCR Oxidation Catalyst NSCR Diesel Oxidation Catalyst SCR Catalysts  Diesel Particulate Filters Housings Only CBL LTR IQ NX Series Housings & Silencers VX Series RX Series ZX Series Ground Access Quad Tuned Engine Silencers EM Silencers J Series Cylindricals Low Pressure Drop Spark Arresting ATEX Spark Arresting Inline Spark Arrestor Disks Disks Spark Arresting Ovals Compacts Cowl Silencers TS Residential Grade Series TXS Cirtical Grade Series MS Residential Grade Series Cowl MicroDisc Accessories EM Silencers Controls MIRA-MONITOR ACIS SCR Controller DPF Monitor System Components Piping Expansion Joints Platforms & Ladders Accessories Services & Resources Technical Services Washing & Repair Replacement Elements Regulations Resource Documents Emissions Monitor Contact | About Us | News | Careers | Privacy | Terms & Conditions | ENGINEERED TO PERFORM™