Six Standard Reference Materials (SRMs[R]) have been prepared by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST for the determination of PCBs as different Aroclor mixtures in methanol. Six additional SRMs of the same Aroclors in transformer oil have also been prepared. Specifically, solutions of Aroclors 1016, 1232, 1242, 1254,...
Byline: JOE HARWOOD The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Particleboard maker SierraPine Ltd.'s factory in east Springfield is paying fines of up to $1,000 a month while the company tries to figure out how to cut the plant's visible emissions to comply with an air quality rule. ...
Lubrizol's winterized "PuriNOx" diesel emulsion containing methanol and water is the subject of a new U.S. EPA health effects "alternative Tier 2" study. EPA is asking for public comment by June 20 on its proposed Tier 2 evaluation (contact: caldwell.jim@epa.gov). EPA requires fuels and fuels-additives makers to show...
The MACT standards could require foundries to significantly enhance their emission controls, and this year's AFS Environmental, Health & Safety Conference looked at the impact of these potential regulations. The Maximum Achievable Control Technology MACT standards for reducing emissions of Hazardous Air Pollutants HAP could affect the operations of...
Methanol THE North American methanol market, buoyed last year by a strong economy and snug supply, is facing a glut of capacity additions this year from lower-cost offshore positions. Even though US and Canadian producers began...
NEWS IS GRIM for producers of MTBE, methanol and ethanol. They are scrambling to figure out what to do with production capacity following a vote by an Environmental Protection Agency panel endorsing an elimination of the federal mandate for using oxygenates in reformulated gasoline. ...
California's decision should help ethanol but could boost gasoline prices. CALIFORNIA'S DECISION to eliminate methyl tertiary-butyl ether from gasoline by the end of 2002 and the state's efforts to withdraw from the federal reformulated gasoline program are posing major challenges for...
Petroleum refiners and marketers face the prospect of new regulations for reformulated gasoline RFG. RFG was introduced in 1995 as cleaner-burning gasoline was mandated by the EPA under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1992. The second stage of federal regulations under the 'complex model' is set to take effect...
Summary: Under the effects of the Clean Air Act which, following successful large-scale experiments, came into force in November 1992, requiring changes in fuel profiles in the fight against car engine pollution, the United States has made great strides in the use of bioethanol in petrol....
COMPLIANCE WITH THE CLUSTER RULES AS CURrently proposed would cost International Paper Co. between $700 million and $1.4 billion over the next three to four years, according to published reports. Tom Jorling, IP's vice president of environmental affairs, points out that the higher figure is more than the company's earnings...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency EPA has denied an industry request to remove methanol from the list of hazardous air pollutants HAPs regulated under the federal Clean Air Act. The petition, filed by the American Forest and Paper Associ THE...
Corn growers will benefit from a recent EPA decision that gives preference to ethanol over methanol as an additive to cleaner-burning gasoline. Greater use of ethanol should result in a demand for an additional 200 to 400 million bushels of corn a year. CORN-GROWERS and oil producers have long quarrelled...
As mandated by the Environmental Protection Agency, marketers and oil companies alike are slowly upgrading their underground StOrage tanks to meet the federal requirements which were announced in late 1988. Although tank owners have been given a 10-year phase-in schedule for meeting the technical...
Smog wars: Changing rules, weighing fuels EPA proposed new rules last week to limit the leading source of hydrocarbon pollution from motor vehicles -- emissions of evaporated gasoline trapped in the tank and fuel lines. Agency officials say the rules, which they hope to implement within three years,...
What the Future May Hold For Gasoline Composition Gasoline marketers take the heat if motorists are unhappy with the gasoline they buy, but the government, refiners, auto makers and others make the decisions on what kind of product it will be. ...
A FEDERAL COURT of appeals has denied an industry petition to remove methanol from the Environmental Protection Agency's EPA list of hazardous air pollutants. The American Forest and Paper Association AFPA had argued that EPA'S refusal in A...
Methanol-blend marketing has been hit with a one-two regulatory punch. The federal Environmental Protection Agency EPA has said it prematurely granted American Methyl Corp.'s Petrocoal waiver in 1981 and has denied the company's request for a waiver on another methanol blend formula,...
The pulp and paper industry is planning to petition the Environmental Protection Agency PA) to remove the pollutant methanol from its list of hazardous air pollutants, a move that eventually could free paper companies from meeting future stringent air toxic rules now under consideration in accord with the Clean Air...
RENO, Nevada ENS — The University of Nevada at Reno has won a $69,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to find a cleaner, more cost-effective way to produce biodiesel from waste cooking oil. Biodiesel fuel is non-toxic, biodegradable and creates less air pollution than petroleum...
Byline: Joe Truini U.S. iron and steel foundries will have to reduce toxic air pollutants at a cost of about $21 million per year under a new federal rule. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued a...
Articles 2003-09-15
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