Department (ACHD) and Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), we have written about Eastman Chemical’s facility in Jefferson Hills and the ongoing failure to issue a Title V Operating Permit to facility has a new owner – it also appears that in early 2022 the facility (as well as the rest of Eastman Chemical’s adhesive resins business line) was acquired by Synthomer, Plc., a multi-national firm based

GASP on Feb. 14 submitted formal comments related to draft installation permits for the Eastman Chemical Here’s what you need to know about the issue: Eastman Chemical Resins, Inc. Water Treatment Plant, a Pilot Plant used to test new formulas and processes, and approximately 200 chemical Eastman was required to then submit a report regarding each test to EPA for approval. After Eastman submitted certain testing reports, EPA required Eastman to supplement them.

Further, Eastman was the subject of a federal enforcement action in 2011; the order that resolved that action required Eastman to comply with a comprehensive testing and permitting process that has been the National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants, which applies to “Miscellaneous Organic Chemical by both ACHD and Eastman that the processing unit was in fact subject to those requirements. Obviously, this should prevent Eastman from attempting any argument that those provisions do not apply