GHG - The Threat Is Real

On December 7, EPA ruled that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are harmful to the environment and to the public health. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson stated that “the overwhelming amount of evidence shows the threat is real.” This ruling gives EPA the authority to regulate GHG under the Clean Air Act.

Per David Doniger, policy director for the climate center at the Natural Resources Defense Council, “The Obama Administration is prepared to use existing laws, even as it works with Congress on new ones, to move our country toward cleaner energy that will protect the health of people and of future generations.”

Electric generating utilities are required to begin monitoring GHG emissions on January 1, 2010, in response to the GHG Mandatory Reporting Rule (MRR). The purpose of this rule is clearly to gather the information required to baseline emissions from each facility to guide the implementation of future rules or legislation to reduce these emissions. Compliance with this rule will require utilities to identify and monitor not only stack emissions, but also a host of other GHG emissions sources.

As the Obama Administration moves to regulate GHG under the Clean Air Act, you need tools to meet the exacting requirements of EPA's monitoring and reporting instructions. You need tools that will comply with EPA's stringent requirements for data validation, missing data substitution, calculation methodologies, certification requirements and reporting instructions.

As the leading provider of environmental software addressing the Clean Air Act, ESC has the compliance tools that you need to meet your January 1, 2010 monitoring deadline.

For more information regarding the ESC's GHG Manager, visit the ESC website (http://envirosys.com/productssolutions/ghgmanager.aspx).

Contact your Senior Account Executive today at 865.688.7900 or sales@envirosys.com for more information on ESC's GHG offerings!