Challenge

The client, a leading supplier of high-quality building-materials, operates one of the largest cement plants west of the Mississippi River. The site is located in one of 35 Air Districts in California. The state required transparent accounting of facilities that release toxic contaminants into the atmosphere.

GES provided permitting and engineering support for our client’s new startup sterilization process in Texas. The new startup used state of the art equipment for sterilizing medical packaging and devices with a process that emits ozone.GES completed the online permit requirements of The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). The new source required modeling and demonstration of best available control technology (BACT) and included a cost benefit assessment.

This past August 30, the US District Court of Arizona vacated and remanded the Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR) in the case of Pascua Tribe v. US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In response, on September 3, EPA and the US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) announced that they were halting implementation of the NWPR and would interpret “waters of the United States” (WOTUS) consistent with pre-2015 regulatory guidance until further notice.

John Ennis is a Senior Vice President serving in the role of Corporate Counsel since 2002.  John leads the company’s performance-based contracting (PBC) initiatives, spearheading the development of PBC opportunities while working closely with our PBC team of engineering, technical, and operational personnel on existing PBC (cost-to-close) initiatives.  John is also involved with GES’ subcontractor qualification program, corporate risk management, and international expansion.