2025 Environmental Conference

• Case study on implementing artificial intelligence (AI) for compliance: Describe the application of AI technology, the pros, and cons of using AI for compliance, and any lessons learned.
• The NSPS for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry and NESHAP for the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (SOCMI) and Group I & II Polymers and Resins Industry (the HON Rule) requires fence line monitoring root cause analysis, and corrective action for 6 pollutants. Is there software or other digital solutions to help a facility track root cause analysis and corrective action?
• Water: Several areas in the US are facing water scarcity. What are the legal, regulatory, and technical aspects of water scarcity? For example, what role does the Endangered Species Act play in diverting water resources from industrial and agricultural applications? How can refineries and petrochemical facilities reuse or conserve water? And what needs exist for advancing reuse?
  • Recycling/reuse projects that lower the overall water usage and consumption at our facilities.
  • Water treatment, including new or innovative technologies or processes that are success stories.
  • Lessons learned from less than successful situations; or any other topics concerning water treatment that could be beneficial to our audience.
  • Is desalination technology becoming cost-competitive with other means of sourcing useable water? 
  • Regulatory Issues:
    • Water of the United States: What changes and guidance are on the horizon?
    • CWA Section 311 Worst Case Facility Response Plan: Hear about EPA plans to streamline the rule and learn how you can prepare for compliance.

• Risk Management Plans (RMP): How to prepare for current RMP requirements and what changes may be coming.
• EPA’s Per and Polyfluoroalky Substances (PFAS) policy: How could the Administration’s de-regulatory agenda impact federal PFAS regulation? What actions are states undertaking? And how can industry respond to the changing regulatory landscape?
• Benzene Waste Operations National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) (BWON): Lessons learned from BWON audits. Strategies and tools to minimize air emissions from wastewater systems at refineries and ethylene manufacturing plants.
• Tanks and terminals:
  • Updates on NESHAP for: Gasoline Distribution Technology Reviews, NSPS for Bulk Gasoline Terminals, and NSPS Kc.
  • Emissions monitoring tools: Innovative technologies to monitor fugitive emissions
  • Marine vessel loading NESHAP: Where we are and where we could be headed.
  • Tank emission calculation methodology updates (i.e., use of the new API vapor pressure method for diesel/kerosene stocks)
• Whatever is old is new again: Can we bring together regulated industry, regulators, and public interest groups to return to the era of “Negotiated Rulemaking?”
  • Federal regulatory agenda: Status and timetables for activities related to RMP, Hazardous Organic NESHAP (HON) and NSPS for Volatile Organic Liquid Storage Tanks: Where are state agencies and NGOs responding with rules or other initiatives?

• Crisis Dos and Don’ts: The role of the site Environmental Manager during emergency response?
• “You Just Don’t Understand” The evolving workplace dynamic of a multi-generational workforce: How methods of communications and expectations vary across generations.

• “Wicked Problems”: Have you or a client had a strange, unpredictable, unregulated environmental issue to contend with? If so, how did you address the odd and unexpected “wicked” environmental problem, what lessons did you learn, and what advice do you have for our attendees?

We also invite you to propose a relevant environmental or management topic that is appropriate for a 4-hour workshop on Sunday, October 19, 2025.