Since 1972, a cornerstone of Enviroplan Consulting’s professional services has been the development of air pollution emissions inventories for a very large cross section of industry and government. We have worked for hundreds of companies on air pollution emissions inventory development.

Under contract to five states and two local governments since 1994, Enviroplan Consulting has also been responsible for reviewing and evaluating emissions inventories submitted as part of air pollution construction and operating permit applications and renewals for over 2,500 permits.

Therefore, we are very familiar with combustion and other sources of GHG emissions for a very wide cross section of U.S. industry and government.

In addition to the above experience, we have over a decade of experience developing GHG emissions inventories for industry and government.

We also worked for the American National Standards Institute on helping develop its national accreditation program for Verification and Validation Bodies in accord with ISO 14065. A member of our staff also worked on the Technical Expert Panel of The Climate Registry’s Electric Power Sector (EPS) Protocol (for GHG emissions inventories).

Enviroplan Consulting has developed GHG emissions inventories for its private sector and government clients and has used and/or is familiar with the following GHG emissions inventory reporting protocols among others:

U.S. EPA emissions reporting procedures in the GHG Reporting Rule (40 CFR Part 98)

The Climate Registry (TCR)

- General Reporting Protocol

- Electric Power Sector Protocol

- Local Government Operations Protocol

- Oil & Gas Production Protocol

The Climate Action Registry (CAR)

- Cement Sector Protocol

- Forest Sector Protocol

The Greenhouse Gas Protocol Initiative

- Corporate Accounting and Reporting Standards (Corporate Standard)

- Project Accounting Protocol and Guidelines

A carbon strategy is a procedure for making the decision faced each year by a company or other organization (e.g. government unit) subject to voluntary internal or mandatory external mandates for carbon emissions reductions. The decision consists of deciding how to satisfy required carbon emission reductions in a way that best achieves the company’s objectives. These objectives are expected to include reducing the costs of achieving the emission reductions and improving company relations with customers, government agencies whose actions affect the company’s profitability, investors and the general public.

The costs of carbon credits generated from External Mitigation Projects are lower today than they will be when carbon reductions become mandatory over a broad cross section of the economy. Developing a carbon strategy today will permit an organization to take advantage of the lower current costs of securing carbon credits and have procedures in place to determine the lowest cost way of satisfying future voluntary and mandatory carbon emission reductions.

Developing a carbon strategy now will also be responsive to new Securities and Exchange Commission requirements of companies to disclose climate related risks.

Developing a climate strategy will also provide a company preparation for responding to a growing amount of litigation claiming climate related damages that have already been filed in three Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal.

Finally, developing a carbon strategy may help a company further improve their public relations with government regulators, investors and the general public.

Each year, a company or other organization must decide how to satisfy its required carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) emission reductions in a way that best achieves the organization’s objectives. There are three ways (individually or in combination) to achieve the required CO2e emission reductions:

Make internal CO2e emission reductions

Undertake External Mitigation Projects that generate CO2e emission reductions

Purchase Carbon Allowances and/or CO2e emission reductions from External Projects either under a Futures Contract for the year of the emissions cap or on the Spot Market

We will help an organization identify alternative internal CO2e emission reductions, the available tons of CO2e reductions from each internal project, and the cost per ton of realizing these reductions.

We will identify candidate External Mitigation Projects, quantify the available carbon credits from each type of project in a realistic geographic area that we determine together with you, quantify the costs and cost per ton of carbon credit through implementing each type of project, help you decide which project(s) to develop, provide guidance on the operational implementation of these projects, assist in project development and document the project and its GHG emission reductions in accord with the requirements of the International Organization for Standardization ISO 14064-2 and any additional requirements of the applicable GHG program.

We will help the organization develop a system and procedures for determining the least cost way of satisfying its carbon reduction mandates through internal and external carbon credit development combined with the purchase of current or future carbon credits on the open market.

Enviroplan Consulting’s GHG Consulting Group has develop a detailed generic carbon strategy approach with the assistance of its strategic partners including MetroEnergy Solutions for building energy conservation projects, Cummings and Smith, Inc. for methane collection from landfills and several subcontractors including for forestation projects.

We provide verification services for entity GHG emissions inventories and for GHG project emission reductions.

Enviroplan Consulting’s verification and validation services for GHG emissions and project emission reductions are in accord with the requirements of the International Organization for Standardization ISO 14064-3, the Verification Protocol of The Climate Registry and the verification protocols of other GHG programs including the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative.

We are currently completing a verification of a large electric power company’s emissions inventory to be submitted to The Climate Registry. We are also in the process of becoming accredited in 2010 by the American National Standards Institute as a Verification and Validation Body in accord with ISO 14065.

The ANSI accreditation will include the following sectors:

Project Level Sectors:

1. Fuel combustion
2. Industrial processes (non-combustion, chemical reaction, fugitive, and other)
3. Land use, Land Use Change and Forestry
4. Carbon Capture and Storage
5. Livestock
6. Waste Handling and Disposal

The GHG Tailoring Rule was promulgated by U.S. EPA on May 13, 2010.This rule requires GHGs to be treated as an air pollutant subject to EPA’s New Source Review (NSR) regulations including determination of Best Available Control Technology for GHG emissions. We will conduct these BACT Determinations for GHGs as part of our overall NSR services.

Since the original Prevention of Significant Deterioration Regulation was promulgated in the 1970’s, Enviroplan Consulting has been conducting BACT Determinations for many of its hundreds of private sector clients for combustion units and process units in many industries. Enviroplan Consulting has also reviewed hundreds of proposed BACT Determinations for its seven state and local air pollution consulting clients for which it has prepared over 2,500 air pollution construction and operating permits.

U.S. EPA through its Office of Research and Development is currently developing its Greenhouse Mitigation Strategies Database similar to the BACT/RACT/LAER Clearinghouse. EPA is also in the process of preparing guidance documents to assist government agencies in making GHG BACT Determinations. Among the currently unresolved policy issues are whether reductions in GHGs from other emission units at the same facility or trading of GHG emissions from emission units not controlled by the source subject to BACT may be used in the BACT Determinations.

Enviroplan Consulting is closely following these developments and plans to review EPA’s draft policy and guidance as they are developed. We intend to be well prepared to assist our clients in making BACT Determinations for GHGs when these requirements begin.

Enviroplan Consulting’s GHG Consulting Group is led by some of the nation’s top experts on GHG issues. They include: