Moving to Canada if a “certain” candidate wins the presidential election has been a recent topic of conversation. On the other hand, businesses move all the time, and they move for various reasons. In an article in Entrepreneur Magazine, Mark Henricks referenced the five reasons Sharon K. …

Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar ran one of the most successful businesses in history. Let’s look at some of these statistics: Escobar was named one of the 10 richest people on Earth. Escobar’s Medellin Cartel was once making $60 million per day. Escobar once burned $2 million in cash to…

Stationary engines are a common piece of equipment we come across in the field. The engines we’ve seen used in facilities are: Water and sanitation districts Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) plants Natural gas distribution facilities Hospitals Breweries Correctional facilities Introducing SCAQMD Rule 1110.2 Within the South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD), most stationary…

Do environmental compliance problems happen overnight? Perhaps, but problems with environmental compliance are more often the result of incremental changes that accumulate over time. If there’s one thing we’ve learned from working to untangle environmental compliance problems, it’s that these problems tend to grow in size and in complexity the…

Ambient air monitoring at the fenceline of petroleum refineries is a hot topic around the water cooler these days. Why? From 1995 to 2002, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established a number of rules for controlling emissions from petroleum refineries (79 FR 26880) in order to “address the risk remaining…

Cogeneration engines are great at efficiently generating heat and power. But there is a dark side that most sales people don’t talk much about — the complexities of meeting compliance with South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) rules and regulations while operating a cogeneration engine. Non-compliance with the SCAQMD’s…

Interested accelerating the processing of your air permit application? Think about hiring a South Coast Air Quality Management District (SCAQMD) Certified Permitting Professional (CPP). Or even better yet, become a CPP yourself. A CPP is a professional that has passed the CPP test and is, therefore, familiar with preparing SCAQMD…