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In business, the most important performance metric is the bottom line. Though market forces are beyond your control, the one factor that is within your control is productivity (product per time). If you could produce the same amount of product in less time, what would it be worth to you? From my own experience and…

An air quality permit can be a very complex document. Many operational limitations represented in the permit can be very straightforward while others can be nuanced. If you are trying to develop a permitting strategy, accurately represent the permit limitations, or determine if a permit representation is accurate, you need access to the source documents…

The first step in preparing an air quality permit application is to determine whether the proposed project triggers federal permitting requirements. To make that determination, you need access to actual emissions data typically reported through an emissions inventory. How do you do that? If the proposed project involves a net increase in criteria pollutant emissions…

Every dispersion modeling analysis requires land cover (rural or urban), terrain, and meteorological (met) data as input. For analyzing land cover data, EPA suggests two methods: Auer land use and population density methods. One method can give you a rural setting right in the middle of New York City and the other indicating the Houston…

I used to be quite the do-it-yourself home repair, remodel, and construct type. In the early days, I realized I spent just as much time running back and forth to the garage to find the tools necessary to do the job as actually doing the job. To make myself more efficient, I bought a toolbelt…