Baton Rouge Clean Air Coalition

Our next BRCAC monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, December 6th, from 1:30 to 3:30 at LDEQ, 10th floor, room 1051.

Our next BRCAC monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, November 1st, from 1:30 to 3:30 at LDEQ, 10th floor, room 1051.

Our next BRCAC monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, October 4th, from 1:30 to 3:30 at LDEQ, 10th floor, room 1051.

The BRCAC September 6th meeting will be cancelled and the next meeting will be held in October at a place and time to be determined.

An article entitled, "Baton Rouge Area Ozone Designation Update" has been posted as a blog to the LAERC website at http://www.laerc.com/.

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Our next BRCAC monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, September 6th, from 1:30 to 3:30 at LDEQ, 10th floor, room 1051.

Our next BRCAC monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, August 2nd, from 1:30 to 3:30 at the Baton Rouge Area Chamber Briefing Center, 564 Laurel Street.

Our next BRCAC monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 5th, from 1:30 to 3:30 at the Baton Rouge Area Chamber Briefing Center, 564 Laurel Street.

EPA has announced that it is extending the deadline for promulgating initial area designations by one year for the 2015 ozone NAAQS. This provides some additional time for the area to meet the new 2015 ozone standard. The Baton Rouge area was recently redesignated to attainment with the 2008 ozone standard (75 ppb). However, based on 2014-16 ozone readings, the Baton Rouge area was expected to be redesignated to nonattainment for the new 2015 ozone standard (70 ppb) in October of this year. The EPA extension of the deadline for making area designations to October 2018 means that the Baton Rouge area will remain in attainment for ozone for another year and provided additional time to achieve attainment for the new standard.

The Baton Rouge Chamber's Senior Vice President of Business Development Kyle Zeringue recently testified before the Senate EPW Committee in support of legislation to extend implementation of the new ozone standard to a realistically achievable timeframe. His testimony can be accessed at http://www.brac.org/brac-testifies-federal-senate-committee-environment-public-works/.

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It's official. With the promulgation of DEQ's rule AQ365S May 20th, emission reduction projects for mobile sources became eligible to earn emission reduction credits (ERCs) within DEQ's ERC banking system. The banked ERCs can then be used as offsets for permitting new projects.

Implementing this new rule is expected help mitigate air quality and economic development constraints of the previous “point source only” banking system and provide a number of valuable benefits for the Baton Rouge area such as:
• Allow for continued economic and transportation development (increased availability and lower costs for ERCs, which are now scarce and costly)
• New ERC projects can start reducing emissions and improving air quality in a relatively short period of time (which is a goal of EPA’s Advance Program in which we participate)
• Provide for overall ratcheting down of emissions in the nonattainment area through the emission offsets required for permits for new sources of pollutants
• Reduce emissions from important ozone precursor sources not easily regulated by DEQ (e.g. on-road and off-road mobiles sources)
• Facilitate overall emissions reductions in pursuit of attainment and maintenance of ozone and PM2.5 NAAQS
• Provide funding opportunities for those with emission reduction projects they would like to pursue, but have no funding
• Substantially further interest in clean diesel

The Baton Rouge Clean Air Coalition sees implementation of AQ365S as a valuable tool in helping the Baton Rouge area achieve and maintain attainment of national air quality standards.

Our next BRCAC monthly meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 7, from 1:30 to 3:30 at the Baton Rouge Area Chamber Briefing Center, 564 Laurel Street.