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Recent Additions
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May 3, 2009
Presentation by Sam Napolitano to the NACAA Annual Meeting, May 5, 2009 "Status of Clean Air Interstate Rule Implementation and Outreach for Replacement Rules" (PDF 23pp)April 28, 2009
Presentation by Sam Napolitano to the Spring Environmental Marketing Association Meeting (EMA) - "Where We Are in 2008 and Lessons for Future Cap and Trade Programs" (PPT 18pp)April 24, 2009
Allowance Markets Assessment: A Closer Look at the Two Biggest Price Changes in the Federal SO2 and NOX Allowance Markets White Paper, April 23, 2009(PDF 10pp., 58K)April 13, 2009
Status of Acid Rain, NOx Budget Trading and Clean Air Interstate Rule Program Emissions: End of 2008, April 2009(Powerpoint 22MB)April 9, 2009
EPA announces the launch of a new cap and trade website.March 24, 2009
EPA announces the results of the Seventeenth Annual Acid Rain Allowance Auction. The Annual Auction gives power plants, brokers and even private citizens an opportunity to buy and sell sulfur dioxide (SO2) allowances and is part of EPA's highly successful cap and trade program to reduce emissions contributing to acid rain.January 9, 2009
CAMD released today the Acid Rain and Related Programs 2007 Progress ReportJanuary 8, 2009
Article by Sam Napolitano, Et Al. - A Multi-Pollutant Strategy. Public Utilities Fortnightly January 2009 (PDF 7pp, 513KDecember 23, 2008
The D.C. Circuit remanded without vacatur EPA's Clean Air Interstate Rule. Read the court decision (PDF 4pp, 22k)December 19, 2008
CAMD released today the US-Canada Air Quality Agreement 2008 Progress Report (PDF 72pp, 4.7MB)December 18, 2008
MDC CAMD Export FilesDecember 17, 2008
CAMD released today the 2007 NOx Budget Program Report on Compliance and Environmental Results.Read the Report and view the news brief
November 4, 2008
Nov 4, 2008 final rule on Stay of the Effectiveness of Requirements for Air Emission Testing Bodies. (PDF, 3 pp. 55 KB)
October 29, 2008
In a Federal Register notice dated January 24, 2008, "Revisions to the Continuous Emissions Monitoring Rule for the Acid Rain Program, NOx Budget Trading Program, Clean Air Interstate Rule, and the Clean Air Mercury Rule; Final Rule" (73 FR 4364) EPA included provisions relating to and defining a Protocol Gas Verification Program (PGVP). The program as defined in that final rule is "the EPA Protocol Gas audit program described in Section 2.1.10 of the 'EPA Traceability Protocol for Assay and Certification of Gaseous Calibration Standards,' September 1997, EPA-600/R-97/121 (EPA Protocol Procedure) or such revised procedure as approved by the Administrator." As the Administrator has not approved a revised procedure, the currently existing procedure is that described in Section 2.1.10 of the EPA Protocol Procedure which currently provides:
"Periodically, the U.S. EPA will assess the accuracy of compressed gas calibration standards that have been assayed and certified according to this protocol. The accuracy of representative standards will be assessed by EPA audits."
The processes and procedures described in the latest draft Protocol Gas Verification Program Implementation Plan dated February 2008 are not effective and therefore the January 1, 2009, compliance dates referenced in 40 CFR §72.2 and 40 CFR part 75, Appendix A §5.1.4 and discussed in the preamble of the above-mentioned rulemaking do not refer to nor are they effective with respect to the draft PGVP Implementation Plan. A revised procedure will not be effective until EPA goes through notice and comment rulemaking on any revised procedure. Please continue to check "Recent Additions" on the CAMD web site at: http://www.epa.gov/airmarkets/ for the latest developments.
September 16, 2008
MDC CAMD Export FilesJune 12, 2008
MDC CAMD Export FilesMay 29, 2008
May 7, 2008
Presentation by Sam Napolitano on SO2 and NOx Allowance Markets at the Environmental Markets Association (EMA) Meeting on April 30, 2008 (PDF, 18 pp., 870 KB)MDC Version 4.2.58 is revised as of May 7, 2008. This version of MDC supersedes, MDC v4.2.57 (posted in May, 2006), and supports the January 24, 2008, revisions to §75.74(c)(2) affecting ozone season only reporters beginning in 2008. This version of MDC also includes other minor fixes to "bugs" and problems that were reported in the previous version. The changes and fixes are detailed in the Release notes for MDC v4.2.58 (PDF) (1 pp., 11 K).