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EPA One Step Closer to Finalizing New Emission Standards
5/1/2012 Products Finishing

Attorney and environmental expert Anthony Giuliani explains the EPA's new chromium rules due in 2012, which would amend the existing National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants Emissions for hard and decorative chromium electroplating and chromium anodizing tanks by lowering the existing NESHAP limits for both existing and new sources.

NASF REPORT: Is EPA Playing Dirty With Chromium Data?
5/1/2012 Products Finishing

NASF’s Jeff Hannapel and Christian Richter point to major flaws, bad precedent in EPA chromium air rule. NASF leaders have submitted a 100-page package of comments to the EPA in response to the agency’s proposed rule for chromium finishing operations.

NASF Says EPA Chromium Air Rules Have Major Flaws
3/30/2012 Products Finishing

Claims EPA Used Data from 'Phantom Facilities'

NASF Washington Forum Features Ex-EPA Chief Carol Browner As Speaker
3/8/2012 Products Finishing

As the longest-serving EPA Administrator, Browner worked closely with the surface finishing industry during the Clinton Administration on the Metal Finishing "Strategic Goals" Program. She most recently served as an assistant to President Obama and director of the White House Office of Energy and Climate Change Policy.

Reusing Water
3/2/2012 Products Finishing

We are using ion exchange treatment for wastewater from nickel-chrome and zinc plating. The metal rinses are passed through the ion exchange process to remove the presence of nickel, hex chrome and zinc metal ions. The “clean water” is re-used to rinse our plated parts, but we find that it attacks the bright zinc finish. What kind of characterization do we need to do to identify the pollutants that cause this?

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