Environmental Compliance Handbook, Volume 1

Daniel T. Rogers is currently Director – Environmental Affairs at Amsted Industries Incorporated in Chicago, Illinois. Amsted Industries is a diversified manufacturing company of industrial components serving primarily railroad, vehicular, and construction and building markets. Amsted Industries has more than 70 manufacturing locations in 15 countries. Mr. Rogers participates in environmental due diligence for acquisitions and divestitures, investigation and remediation of contamination, creating and evaluating environmental compliance and sustainability programs, and providing environmental advice, oversight, training, and negotiation strategies at various levels within the organization. Mr. Rogers has published more than100 research papers in professional and academic publications and peer-reviewed journals on subjects including environmental geology, hydrogeology, geologic vulnerability and mapping, contaminant fate and transport, urban geology, environmental site investigations, contaminant risk, brownfield re-development, remediation, pollution prevention, environmental compliance and management, and sustainable development. He has authored Environmental Compliance and Sustainability: Global Challenges and Perspectives (2019), Urban Watersheds: Geology, Contamination, Environmental Regulations, and Sustainability, 2nd Edition (2020), and is also the author of Environmental Geology of Metropolitan Detroit (1996) and has published surficial geologic maps of the Rouge River watershed in southeastern Michigan. In addition, he is a contributing author of an encyclopedia of global social concerns and several other books on environmental geology, environmental chemistry, and environmental management and sustainability. He has taught geology and environmental chemistry at Eastern Michigan University and The University of Michigan and has presented guest lectures at several colleges and universities both in the United States and internationally.

Chapter 1 Themes and Overview, Chapter 2 History of Air Pollution and the Beginning of Air Regulations in the United States, Chapter 3 The Science of Air Pollution, Chapter 4 Clean Air Act, Chapter 5 Climate Change Regulations, Chapter 6 Air-related Environmental Regulations, Chapter 7 Global Air Assessments and Standards, Chapter 8 Air Pollution Regulations of North America, Chapter 9 Air Pollution Regulations of Europe, Chapter 10 Air Pollution Regulations of Asia, Chapter 11 Air Pollution Regulations of Africa, Chapter 12 Air Pollution Regulations of South America, Chapter 13 Air Pollution Regulations of Oceania, Chapter 14 Analysis of the Effectiveness of Environmental Regulations for Air world-wide, Chapter 15 Achieving and Maintaining Compliance with Air Regulations