TRSA’s ongoing outreach efforts to regulators on boiler rules—including a recent meeting between the association’s government relations director and two high-ranking EPA officials—contributed to a recent decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to exempt area source boilers from numeric emissions limits.
 
Earlier this year, TRSA’s Director of Government Relations Kevin Schwalb joined Gina McCarthy, assistant administrator for air and radiation, and Mathy Stanislaus, assistant administrator for solid waste and emergency response, for a discussion of the agency’s final rules on industrial and commercial boilers and incinerators. The rules set national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants ...