Clients of Alex J. Sagady & Associates

Client Projects -- Fourth Quarter - 2007

• Clean Air Task Force, Boston, MA - US Steel, Clairton, PA coke oven air pollution review
• Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. - Confidential litigation investigation;
• Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. - Chicago Office - US Steel -Gary Works water permitting matter
• Legal and Safety Employer Research (LASER), Gridley, CA -- evaluation of new source review permitting for ethanol production facilities and litigation expert review
• Global Community Monitor - San Francisco, CA -- petroleum refinery air permitting review
• Alliance for the Great Lakes, Chicago, IL - Review of issues associated with the Detroit, MI POTW
• Attorney Gary Abraham, Allegany, NY - Willet Dairy; CAFO Litigation Investigation and Expert Testimony
• Stokes Environmental, Norfolk, VA -- Assist City of Portsmouth, VA with due diligence review on a proposed 230 million gallon per year ethanol plant.

Various Past Project Clients, 1995-2006

• Allen County Citizens for the Environment, Lima, OH; projects to comment on new source review permitting of a butanediol production plant, an integrated gasification combined cycle electric generating facility and a proposed ethanol production facility
• American Lung Association national office, Washington, DC; project on hazardous waste combustion in cement kilns and hazardous waste incinerators
• American Lung Association of Texas, Austin, TX; project to address permitting of a hazardous waste combustion permitting and compliance evaluation at the cement kiln at TXI, Midlothian, TX
• Cadillac Area Citizens for Clean Air, Cadillac, MI; project to address tire derived fuel combustion
• Citizens for a Better Environment, San Francisco, CA; project to evaluate the Amoco Whiting, IN refinery
• Citizens for Clean Air and Water, Monroe, LA, review of proposed operating permit for a shuttered Entergy electric generating facility
• City of Columbia, SC -- Evaluation of a new source review application and process information for a wood waste gasifier to be operated by the University of South Carolina at Columbia, SC
• Clean Air Network, Washington, DC; database management project on power plant environmental data
• Codorus Monitoring Network, Inc., Dover, PA; enforcement, wastewater permit review and litigation investigation on bleached kraft mill effluent from P.H. Glatfelter facility at Spring Grove, PA
• Colson, Hicks, Eidson, PC & Ratzen & Alters, PC, Miami and Coral Gables, FL; litigation investigation of occupational health hazards in a public facility
• Cook Inlet Keeper, Homer, AK; project dealing with Tesoro refinery wastewater permit
• Ecology Center of Ann Arbor, Ann Arbor, MI; projects on new source review for a motor vehicle assembly plant and waste burning cement kiln
• Earthjustice, Washington, DC; Project #1 - Evaluation of the compliance monitoring requirements of existing EPA New Source Performance Standards; Project #2 -- Evaluation of compliance monitoring provisions of existing state implementation plans
• Environmental Justice and Law Clinic, Golden Gate University Law School, San Francisco, CA; project to comment on a proposed Title V Clean Air Act operating permit for an Ultramar Refinery
• Environmental Integrity Project; Project on power plant operating permit scoping; Project on evaluation of an NPDES permit and application for an Iowa hog CAFO operation
• Flint-Genesee United for Action, Justice and Environmental Safety, Flint, MI; project to evaluate new source review and toxic emissions for an auto metal shredder facility
• Friends of Hudson, Hudson, NY; air pollution consulting, litigation investigation and expert witness on cement plant air discharge permit dispute
• Great Lakes United, Buffalo, NY; project on the air toxics and the Binational Toxics Agreement on the Great Lakes
• Heninger, Burge, Vargo & Davis, PC, Birmingham, AL; litigation investigation of a cement kiln facility
• Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Manistee, MI; environmental and air pollution review of a proposed coal fired power plant on Manistee Lake by Tondu Energy and Michigan Public Power Authority; review of NPDES wastewater discharge permit proceeding for Packaging Corporation of America, Filer City, MI plant
• Marasco-Newton, Arlington, VA; provide environmental consulting to EPA National Advisory Committee on Environmental Policy and Technology - Petroleum Refining Sector
• Attorney Dennis Muchnicki, Dublin, OH; litigation investigation concerning a lime kiln facility
• National Refinery Reform Campaign, San Francisco, CA - Community In-Powerment & Development Association, Port Arthur, TX -- review of New Source Review application for installation of a Motiva Enterprises Refinery
• National Wildlife Federation, Great Lakes Office, Ann Arbor, MI; projects to address environmental remediation issues at a closed copper mine and training on air pollution regulatory requirements
• Natural Resources Defense Council, Washington, DC; projects on power plant litigation investigation and expert witness on national air pollution rules and policy for new source review and routine repair and maintenance exceptions
• National Lawyers Guild, Sugar Law Center, Detroit, MI; expert witness and litigation investigation concerning enviornmental justice ligitation against a demolition waste-fueled power plant
• Olson, Bzdok & Howard, PC -- Law Firm, Traverse City, MI -- Project #1 -- Comments concerning air regulation and mercury emissions of the Lafarge cement plant at Alpena, MI; Project #2 -- review of materials in air pollution litigation involving Severstall Steel, Dearborn, MI
• Owensborough Building and Construction Trades Council, Owensborough, KY; project on new source permitting of a coal fired electric power plant
• Patricia Boyes, Attorney, Gainesville, FL; litigation expert on a proposed cement kiln facility
• Plumbers & Pipefitters Local 166, Fort Wayne, IN; projects concerning new source air pollution permitting for a steel strip coating operation and a direct iron reduction furnace
• Potuznik, Carrozza, Wilson, fisher & Pannucci, PC, Muskegon, MI; project to evaluate concentrated animal feeding operation
• River Alliance & Attorney Robert Guild, Columbia, SC; air pollution enforcement and permitting for a Vulcan rock quarry
• Shea & Rogal, LaGrange, IL, petroleum refinery litigation investigation and consultation
• Sierra Club Alabama Chapter & national Environmental Law Department; post-judgement hog CAFO waste application review, site inspection and recommendations for federal court order resolving litigation.
• Sierra Club Central Ohio Group, Columbus, OH; review of Ohio EPA new source air permit for tire pyrolysis plant
• Sierra Club Ohio Chapter; evaluation of application and draft permit on new source review of a proposed coke oven operation at Toledo/Oregon, OH
• Sierra Club Delaware Chapter, Wilmington, DE; project to address a revised consent judgement for the control of air pollution from the Motiva Delaware City refinery
• Sierra Club Florida Chapter; litigation assistance on cement kiln facility
• Sierra Club Midwest Office, Madison, WI; project on airborne toxicants and the Great Lakes
• Sierra Club Mackinac Chapter, Lansing, MI; litigation investigation and project on water pollution from concentrated animal feeding operations; participation in regulatory negotiation on CAFO water pollution and permitting rules; comments on proposed general permit for CAFO facilities; investigation, field work and enforcement against Clean Water Act violations at the Michigan State University Beef Cattle Teaching and Research facility
• Sierra Club Mississippi Chapter; review of new source air pollution permit for Chevron petroleum refinery
• Sierra Club New Columbia Chapter, Washington, DC; review of proposed Clean Air Act Title V operating permit for the District of Columbia Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant
• Sierra Club North Star Chapter; review of new source review air pollution permit for tire burning power plant; review of application and draft permit for a taconite ore to iron nugget production/reduction facility
• Sierra Club Virginia Chapter, Richmond, VA; Hopewell, VA environmental project on air/environmental compliance regarding Honeywell, Inc. production facility and a Stone Container kraft pulp mill.
• St. Francis Prayer Center, Flint, MI; projects to address air permitting for a small part industrial coating facility and nuisance from a wood waste facility; project on amendment of a construction and operation permit for a wood waste facility.
• Texas Sustainable Environmental & Economic Development Coalition, Austin, TX; project to evaluate the ExxonMobil Baytown Refinery, Baytown, TX
• Trial Lawyers for Public Justice, Washington, DC; project relating to new source review litigation on Texas aluminum plant
• Trustees for Alaska; compliance evaluation for air pollution from Arctic oil drilling process equipment and operations
• Village of Harbor View, Harbor View, OH; project to address high sulfur crude permitting for the BP Toledo Refinery
• WATCH, Charlevoix, MI; review of air pollution, permitting and enforcement at the cement kiln operation
• Waterkeeper Alliance, NY; preparation of comments on EPA rulemaking in response to Waterkeeper Alliance decision on national CAFO rules -- comprehensive nutrient management plan regulatory requirements
• Weiner & Burt, PC, Harrisville, MI; litigation investigation and expert witness on nuisance damage claim against a wood-fired electric power plant
• West Bay Watch, Mobile, AL; litigation investigation and research involving petrochemical plants
• Zuni Pueblo Tribe, Zuni, NM; air pollution on coal mine permitting dispute near the Zuni Salt Lake