Community Air Quality Surrounding Utility, Manufacturing and Commercial Operations

Coal ash is stored in open-air impoundments which is often located in close proximity to populated areas. Several components of coal ash, such as heavy metals like lead, mercury, and arsenic, may be associated with health problems in the surrounding communities. This class will allow you to get a grasp of what those problems can be as well as what the subsequent legal issues are.

Bruce Groves is the CEO of Emilcott Associates. Bruce Groves has more than 40 years of industrial hygiene, safety, loss control and environmental mitigation experience including conducting environmental and health and safety hazard assessments. Mr. Groves co-developed the Greenlight™ Environmental Monitoring System in 2005. These systems provide real-time air monitoring at former manufactured gas plant sites, other hazardous waste sites, construction projects, and industrial sites. Since its development, Greenlight™ has been awarded 6 patents.

Peter McGrath is Co-head of Environmental at Moore & Van Allen Law. Peter helps clients comply with environmental law, providing regulatory advice in a wide variety of substantive areas, including solid and hazardous waste, coal ash management, storm water and wastewater water discharges, air emissions, wetlands, chemical regulation, environmental remediation, and occupational safety and health.