Reports / 2026-09-10 · sweep
Pyrolysis / Dangerous Plastics Facilities — Early-Warning Sweep (Sept 10, 2026)
Run date: Thursday, September 10, 2026 · Nationwide · Leads and clocks only. Last sweep: 2026-09-03. Coverage log read before reporting (master 13i_tWQqery… plus companion APPEND_2026-09-03 sheet). No partner-forwarded notices in uploads or email this week. Canonical docs read this run: CANONICAL_Facility-Detection-Lexicon v1.0 and CANONICAL_State-Permit-Channel-Map v1.0 (both in Drive, dated 2026-09-04). Each block below is self-contained and can be forwarded as-is. Sources sit inside the block they belong to. ————————
1. DEADLINE INSIDE 30 DAYS
URGENT — Clean-Seas West Virginia, Inc. (Clean Vision Corp.) — Belle, Kanawha County, WV — APPEAL CLOCK: 1 DAY
- Agency / division: WVDEP Division of Air Quality, New Source Review Program. Appeal body: West Virginia Air Quality Board.
- Permit: Construction permit R13-3728, Facility ID 039-00760. WVDEP NSR page (read in full today) now lists Final Permit, Final Determination, Response to Comments, and a 40 CFR 241 Determination (submitted 2-17-26); “Last Day to Comment: 07/27/2026.” Source: https://dep.wv.gov/daq/permitting/Pages/NSR-Permit-Applications.aspx
- Stage: FINAL PERMIT ISSUED. Final Determination signed 2026-08-12; agency announced 2026-08-13. “Plastic pyrolysis chemical manufacturing facility,” 50 tons per day, 2700 E. Dupont Ave.
- Appeal deadline and days remaining: WV Code §22B-1-7(c), 30 days from completion of service. From 08-12 signature: Friday, September 11, 2026 — 1 day remaining. If service ran from 08-13: Saturday 09-12, rolling to Monday 09-14 — 4 days. Use 09-11 unless counsel has the date of service in hand.
- Appeal status as of today: The AQB docket, read in full, lists ONE open appeal — 25-04-AQB, WV Citizen Action Group v. DAQ (MGS CNP1, LLC intervenor), filed 12/22/2025. No Clean-Seas appeal appears. Caveat from the page: “Effective April 24, 2026, appeal documents will no longer be uploaded to the Docket page” — the appeal list itself still renders, but confirm by phone with Clerk of the Board Kenna DeRaimo, (304) 414-1128, kenna.m.deraimo@wv.gov. Source: https://aqb.wv.gov/docket
- No news item 09-03 to 09-10 announcing an appeal, counsel, or Kanawha County Commission action across WV Watch, MetroNews, WCHS, WVPB, Gazette-Mail (indexed), ORVI, Moms Clean Air Force WV, WV Rivers, WVCAG. Last public posture: Eric Caruthers (08-13) “we’re looking at our next steps”; Lani Wean, MCAF WV: community “will be taking on other avenues”; Ben Salango (08-07/08): county “has no authority” to stop it, asked for fenceline monitoring. Source: https://wchstv.com/news/local/kanawha-commission-asks-dep-governor-for-clarity-on-clean-seas-belle-permit
- Standing preserved: objections raised in the 06-27 to 07-27 window (petition ~1,000; County Commission 07-31; Charleston City Council).
- Where to file: WV Air Quality Board, 601 57th Street SE, Charleston, WV 25304; 304-926-0445. WVDEP permit writer: Ed Andrews, edward.s.andrews@wv.gov. RTC and Final Permit PDFs at apps.dep.wv.gov returned EMPTY bodies again this run; mirrors: https://wvpublic.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/081226-DEP-Clean-Seas-Construction-Permit.pdf · https://ohiorivervalleyinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/039-00760_FD_13-3728.pdf
- Oil & Gas Watch: listed (WV under construction); final-issuance action not confirmed as recorded — oilandgaswatch.org unreadable this run.
- How it surfaced: log carry-over; AQB docket read this run.
- Next step: by close of business tomorrow, either a notice of appeal is at 601 57th St SE or the appeal right is gone. Call DeRaimo first thing to confirm nothing was filed by another party; if HHN partners are filing, the RTC document is where the grounds live and it needs a human to pull it from WVDEP directly.
Adjacent, scoped out on feedstock, 1 day: W.R. Grace Curtis Bay Works, Baltimore MD — draft Air Quality Permit to Construct (catalyst lines), comments to shannon.heafey@maryland.gov through 2026-09-11. Logged 09-03; not re-reported.
Adjacent, scoped out on feedstock, 0 days: MediWaste Disposal, Pahrump, Nye County NV — NDEP-BSMM permit SW1900REV00 (medical-waste pyrolysis) FINAL, effective 2026-08-26; appeal to State Environmental Commission “by Sept. 10, 2026.” Throughput corrected “from 16.8 tons per day to 41.4 tons per day.” Source: https://pvtimes.com/news/ndep-issues-mediwaste-permit-190045/ · https://ndep.nv.gov/posts/notice-of-issuance-of-mediwaste-sw1900rev00-permit. Out of scope; recorded because the Nevada channel is under review 11-06.
No other in-scope item has a comment or appeal deadline inside 30 days. ————————
2. NET-NEW FACILITIES — not in the coverage log
Empire Green Generation, LLC — Follansbee Operations, Brooke County, WV — R13 construction application ACTIVE, NO COMMENT PERIOD YET — check OGW; likely share with EIP
- Agency / division: WVDEP Division of Air Quality, NSR Program. Permit writer: Ed Andrews (same writer as Clean-Seas).
- Permit: 13-3555B, Facility ID 009-00141, type Construction (table says Modification). Table shows received 03/27/2026; document label says “Application: Received 04/17/2026.” IPR file posted “as of 5/15/26.” “Last Day to Comment:” blank — the window has not opened. Prior application 13-3555A (received 12/05/2023) was WITHDRAWN after an EPA §114 information request, a DAQ regulatory-interpretation request to EPA (2024-10-23), EPA’s response (Aug 2025), and a Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services letter to EPA. New documents posted: “Part 241 Determination 6-24-2026” and “Revised Engine Calculations (Technotherm, JJJJ) 6-24-2026.”
- Why it is in scope: a 40 CFR Part 241 non-hazardous secondary material determination is the document a pyrolysis operator files to argue its feedstock is a fuel, not a waste — the same instrument Clean-Seas filed 2-17-26. “Technotherm” is a pyrolysis/thermal-oil-reactor vendor; JJJJ means the pyrogas is burned in stationary engines. Reported, not confirmed: plastics pyrolysis at approximately 70 tons per day (from prior record; the application PDF returned an empty body to our tools and could not be read this run).
- Stage: application under technical review since April; determination issued June; draft permit and 30-day comment window are the next agency steps. This is the earliest possible detection point — the exact position we missed on Thomaston and Eloy.
- Screening signals present: (5) operator adjacent to the register (Empire Diversified Energy family); (6) Part 241 filing is a pyrolysis tell; (8) engine calculations revised = modification to combustion of process gas.
- Oil & Gas Watch: status not verified this run (site unreadable). If listed, this application is almost certainly not recorded as an active 2026 action; if not listed, flag NOT IN OGW — share with EIP.
- Where comments will go when the window opens: WVDEP DAQ, 601 57th Street SE, Charleston WV 25304; edward.s.andrews@wv.gov. Legal notice will run in the Brooke County paper of record (Weirton Daily Times / The Review) — capture it the week it runs.
- Source (primary, read this run): https://dep.wv.gov/daq/permitting/Pages/NSR-Permit-Applications.aspx — application: https://apps.dep.wv.gov/Documents/DAQ/NSRPermits/009-00141/13-3555B/009-00141_APPLICATION_13-3555B%20.pdf ; Part 241: https://apps.dep.wv.gov/Documents/DAQ/NSRPermits/009-00141/Empire%20Green%20Generation%20-%20Subpart%20241%20determination%206-24-26.pdf (both empty bodies to our tools — need a human download).
- Next step: a WV partner downloads the 13-3555B application, the IPR file, and the 6-24-26 Part 241 determination from the WVDEP page and sends them to Marty; add Empire Green Generation to the WV standing watch alongside Clean-Seas; ask DAQ whether the draft permit is expected before year-end. Ask EIP whether OGW carries it.
BurCell Martinsburg, LLC — Martinsburg, Berkeley County, WV — WATCH ONLY, feedstock question open
- WVDEP DAQ R13 construction application 13-3795, Facility ID 003-00292, received 09/01/2026, permit writer Steve Pursley. Georgia-based company redeveloping the shuttered Entsorga mixed-waste-to-fuel plant as a “Mixed Waste Processing Facility.” Berkeley County Solid Waste Authority site-approval hearing held Wednesday 09-09; written comments open ten days after (approx. 09-19, 9 days). Not pyrolysis on the available text; MSW-to-fuel processing at the former Entsorga site is the kind of facility that adds a thermal step later. Applicant out of state (signal 4).
- Sources: https://dep.wv.gov/daq/permitting/Pages/NSR-Permit-Applications.aspx · https://wvmetronews.com/2026/09/07/berkeley-county-solid-waste-authority-to-host-public-hearing-this-week-concerning-former-entsorga-facility/
- OGW: not applicable unless a conversion unit appears.
- Next step: one read of the 13-3795 application to answer the feedstock question; log as out-of-scope if it is mechanical processing only. No other net-new US facility surfaced from tracers, permit-type searches, newswires, or filings this window. Niutech (PR Newswire 08-29) sold a 10,000–50,000 tpy waste-plastic pyrolysis line to an unnamed “global energy major” refinery — customer and country undisclosed; reported, not confirmed as US. ————————
3. CHANGES ON KNOWN FACILITIES
SOBE Thermal Energy Systems — Youngstown, Mahoning County, OH — PERMIT REVOKED 2026-06-24 (not previously logged)
- Agency: Ohio EPA DAPC. Permit P0132799 (PTIO for tire-chip Thermolyzer, issued 2024-02-14).
- Change: receiver John C. Collins requested revocation 06-19; “In a June 24 decision, Ohio EPA Director John Logue officially revoked the permit.” CEO David Ferro appealed the same day; on 07-31 Mahoning County Common Pleas Judge Anthony Donofrio authorized the receiver “to take any action necessary to dismiss” Ferro’s appeal. City of Youngstown moved 07-21 to dismiss its own ERAC appeal of the original permit; ERAC dismissed 07-22. Receiver: “installation of that system was not feasible.” Youngstown’s third one-year moratorium passed 2025-11-19.
- Source (primary, read this run): https://www.vindy.com/news/local-news/2026/08/judge-oks-sobe-receiver-to-kill-appeal-on-gasification-permit/
- Oil & Gas Watch: listed (facility/5483, “proposed,” 88 tons per day tire chips); revocation almost certainly not recorded — share with EIP.
- Next step: log as DEAD; pull Ohio EPA’s June 24 revocation letter via eDocs for the file (a director’s revocation at a pyrolysis site is precedent material for Alterra and Eloy).
Green Mountain Energy LLC — West Paducah, McCracken County, KY — F-25-019 issuance CONFIRMED
- KY DAQ Executive Summary “FINAL Conditional Major, Construction/Operating Permit: F-25-019,” dated October 7, 2025, reviewer Johnson Luma. Verbatim: “due to PTE for VOC and NOx exceeding major source thresholds, the facility opted to take a federally enforceable, source-wide limit on VOC and NOx.” Only comment received on the draft was from ERM on behalf of the applicant (2025-09-26). Read from a third-party mirror (https://us-east-1.storage.xata.sh/m70jvtus2agj44154spcvud941nfatlk); KY eSearch (AI 184811) is the authoritative copy.
- Expiration date: not stated in the summary. Conditional Major term is five years → renewal calendar entry ~2030-10 (unconfirmed).
- KY DAQ notices page read in full this run — no Green Mountain action. Army Corps water application remains withdrawn (05-29).
- Next step: KY eSearch pull of the permit for the expiration date; log status STALLED — not dead.
Freepoint Eco-Systems Yermo Supply LLC — Yermo, San Bernardino County, CA — SWFP CONCURRENCE 2026-04-28 (dates resolved)
- CalRecycle notice 2026-06390: “Freepoint Eco-Systems Yermo Supply LLC Plastics Sorting and Processing Facility,” New Solid Waste Facilities Permit, notice date 2026-04-28; matches CEQAnet NOD approved 04-28: CalRecycle “Concurrence in the issuance of a New Solid Waste Facilities Permit (SWFP) … SWIS Number 36-AA-0514.” Companion informational-meeting notice was 2026-06357 (02-18), not 06360 (which is a CalRecycle monthly meeting — correct the log). CEQA letter: up to 855 tpd; 77.57 acres; “The processed plastics would then be shipped to an Arizona facility”; applicant 58 Commerce Road, Stamford CT.
- Sources: https://www2.calrecycle.ca.gov/PublicNotices/_OtherNoticesGridData · https://ceqanet.lci.ca.gov/2025100156/4
- Status: permit determination complete; no open window. Feedstock-supply confirmation for Eloy AZ.
Freepoint Eco-Systems Eloy Recycling LLC — Eloy, Pinal County, AZ — C31386.R01 still UNRESOLVED; draft read in part
- Pinal AQCD notices page rendered one stale expanded entry (Bayer, 2023) and six collapsed headings with no readable detail; detail pages EMPTY. Draft revision (dated 1/14/26) read: adds “new railcar and truck loading for LPG loadout … three (3) new LPG pressurized tanks … a new plastic shredder … heavy oil and light oil tanks to a capacity of 15,000 bbl each” and inserts Subpart AAAA monitoring; rests on the 40 CFR 60.1020(h) / 60.1465 “Plastics or rubber recycling unit” exemption with the 70% yield test at §5.E. Four pyrolysis kilns; ~175,200 metric tons/yr; synthetic minor to avoid Title V; PM10 serious nonattainment area. Source: https://pinal.gov/DocumentCenter/View/27465/C31386R1AJ?bidId=
- Final action date: NOT FOUND. Next step unchanged: AZ partners call airquality@pinal.gov.
Freepoint Eco-Systems Hebron — Licking County, OH — new depolymerization signal at the site
- BEN Ohio reports a Plastic Back / BIRD Energy PVC-depolymerization pilot planned at Hebron, “semi-commercial in 2027.” Reported, not confirmed. Dec 18, 2025 NOV (read): “Freepoint stated that they are not using the scrubber to control HCl emissions.” Sources: https://benohio.org/unpermitted-and-unchecked-why-freepoints-noncompliance-threatens-ohios-air/ · https://edocpub.epa.ohio.gov/publicportal/ViewDocument.aspx?docid=3947921
- Next step: watch Ohio EPA for any PTIO application at Facility ID 0145000580 naming Plastic Back or BIRD.
PureCycle Technologies — 8-K 2026-08-31: credit maturity extended to 2028-09-30; Ironton capacity “about 107 million pounds a year.” No new site. Source: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/0001830033/000183003326000029/pct-20260828.htm · https://www.wastedive.com/news/rumpke-purecycle-pcr-partnerships-packaging/829302/
Alterra Akron P0133062, Brightmark Thomaston App 29749, Synthesia Stillwater 2026-0031-C, Eastman Longview 177385, Waste Energy Midland, InnoVent TIRES Inc — NO CHANGE FOUND; see Section 4 for which reads were partial. Eastman 177385 has dropped off the readable TCEQ pending lists (consistent with issuance, unconfirmed). Brightmark: GPB 08-05, “The permit is being reviewed now”; no advisory Aug 5–Sep 9 carries it.
Renewal calendar — permits expiring within 12 months: NONE flagged. Known dates: Waste Energy Midland Ch. 328 to 2031-07; Green Mountain F-25-019 ~2030-10 (unconfirmed, added this run). Still empty: Alterra Akron, Freepoint Eloy (Class II 2021), Nexus McDonough, Brightmark Ashley (new date), Clean-Seas Belle (R13 construction permits carry a commence-construction deadline under 45CSR13 — pull the term from the signed permit).
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4. JURISDICTIONS ENUMERATED THIS RUN
Tool conditions: browser pane declined (unattended run); fetch limited to search-surfaced URLs; the session’s search budget was exhausted mid-run by parallel agents. JS agency portals returned empty shells.
- INDIANA (IDEM) — COMPLETE. All-regions page (updated 09/09) read in full, 634 lines, all ten regions. 31 notices dated ≥ 09-03: 7 air, 21 water, 1 land, 2 rulemaking. Eight ambiguous items resolved by PDF (Ox Paperboard INP000720 “100% recycled paperboard”; IFS Coatings F039-50417-02039 powder coatings; Lippert Plant 72 FESOP transition; Andersons/DTE Logansport ethanol; Toyota Material Handling solvent-recovery unit removal; Heidelberg Mitchell SW 47-05; Unilever Hammond; ERB hearings). Zero in-scope. Brightmark Ashley and Priority Plastics: no active notice.
- GEORGIA (EPD) — COMPLETE (advisories). PA0926-1 (09-02, deadline 10-02) and PA0926-2 (09-09, deadline 10-09) read in full: data centers, quarries, energy plants, Georgia Gulf Sulfur, Smarr Energy sig mod. Zero in-scope. Knack draft-Title-V app and permitsearch.gaepd.org by-name query unreadable — a quiet Brightmark final would be invisible.
- KENTUCKY (DAQ) — COMPLETE. Notices page read in full (10 items; two Conditional Major drafts in window: Joy Global Lebanon F-26-026, Kelvion Burkesville F-25-045 — neither plastics/tire). Zero in-scope. First full KY read since the channel was added.
- WEST VIRGINIA (WVDEP NSR) — COMPLETE (listing). All tables read. In-window R13 applications: Keyrock NE-2/3/4 (08-27), ECC Bailey 6K-2 (08-31), McElroy 7W3 (09-01), BurCell Martinsburg 13-3795 (09-01), Goff Connector 13-3742B (09-02). Hits: Empire Green 13-3555B (Section 2), BurCell (watch), Clean-Seas (Section 1). apps.dep.wv.gov document PDFs: EMPTY bodies. AQB docket: read in full.
- NORTH CAROLINA (DEQ) — COMPLETE (agency). Eight in-window items, all municipal NPDES renewals. No Cumberland or Wake item. Syre/Selenis Cedar Creek: DEQ still indexes the site as DAK Americas; no depolymerization air action posted. Fayetteville Legistar and Cumberland BOC agendas: EMPTY shell / unreadable.
- TEXAS (TCEQ) — PARTIAL. Texas Register 08-28 and 09-04 “In Addition” read in full (enforcement only in scope: Eco Tire Processing LLC, Donna, Hidalgo Co., Docket 2023-0477-MSW-E, “$14,325”). NSR pending list (8/28 data) read A–M only; N–Z NOT READ (New Hope, Nexus, Resynergi, Texas InnoVent, Waste Energy live there). NORI/NAPD table read A–E only. Permit Search Portal: empty shell. TCEQ confirms pending-application publication moved to the portal 08-31.
- OKLAHOMA (ODEQ) — PARTIAL. New portal truncated at row 209: AQD IDs 1061983–1062119 read; WQD rows read; Land Protection Division rows 184–190 read (7 rows — first LPD read on record) but the block continues unread; a newer AQD block with 2026-series permit numbers (1072xxx IDs) sits entirely past the truncation — Synthesia 2026-0031-C would be there; absence is a read failure. Interplastic Pryor 98-215-O M-7: Technical Review, 595 days, no window. Only in-window AQD comment period: Herbert Malarkey Roofing OKC, 2011-649-O M-2, 08/28–09/27 (asphalt roofing; low-probability).
- OHIO (Ohio EPA) — NOT READ. notices.epa.ohio.gov Angular shell; Weekly Review not enumerated for the fifth consecutive run. Alterra final renewal: unresolved. Akron Regional AQMD: no indexed notices.
- NEW YORK (NYSDEC ENB) — NOT READ. Issues 08-26, 09-02, 09-09 returned zero-content bodies. Hearing Notices page read: one Region 3 item; nothing Region 8. Reju: newsroom read 09-10, newest item 07-01; Rochester still “future Regeneration Hub,” FID pending.
- ARIZONA (Pinal AQCD) — PARTIAL. Notices page rendered headings only; detail pages EMPTY. Maricopa and Pima: not attempted.
- CALIFORNIA — PARTIAL. CalRecycle grid JSON read in full (zero in-scope in window). BAAQMD and SCAQMD notice pages: empty shells. BAAQMD search snippet shows Resynergi Rohnert Park application #704470 withdrawn (already known).
- MARYLAND, NEVADA, PENNSYLVANIA — not enumerated (Provisional; capacity). MediWaste NV final surfaced via press.
- Oil & Gas Watch — NOT READ. oilandgaswatch.org summary and facility pages return JS shells; fact-sheet PDF URL blocked by the fetch provenance rule. OGW used by pattern (register, stage language) and via news.oilandgaswatch.org. Changes on OGW-listed facilities found this run: SOBE revoked; Clean-Seas final. Gap candidate: Empire Green Generation.
- Tracers. “Subpart AAAA,” “60.1465,” “60.1020(h),” “plastics or rubber recycling unit,” “Products of Petroleum and Coal, N.E.C.,” “SIC 2999,” “1,4-dioxane” + glycolysis: no new 2026 permit beyond Eloy and Hebron context. Tire pyrolysis / tire-derived oil / rCB US 2026: nothing new.
- Newswires / filings. Aug 27 – Sep 10: Niutech (non-US customer), Aduro FY results (Netherlands), PureCycle 8-K (financing), Waste Energy 8-Ks 08-31 and 09-02 (governance only). No new US site from any watchlist operator. Waste Dive and Plastics Recycling Update feeds read directly.
- Community. Moms Clean Air Force press index read: nothing since 08-25. Change.org / Care2 / Action Network / Beyond Plastics index: NOT SEARCHED (budget) — third run without a community-petition pass.
- Federal. New: EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-1212, “Minor NSR Program Air Permitting Public Participation Requirements for SIPs,” 91 FR 41591 (2026-07-07) — proposes to make the 30-day minor-source comment floor optional at state discretion; comments closed ~08-21. EPN’s letter names “plastics pyrolysis, gasification, solvent-based processing” as sources that “may proceed through minor NSR.” If finalized, the minor-source notices this sweep depends on could stop appearing in “no-more-stringent” states (WV, KY, GA, IN among them). Sources: https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2026-13667 · https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/EPN-Comments-on-Minor-NSR-Public-Participation-Requirements.pdf · https://www.selc.org/wp-content/uploads/2026/08/Filed-final-Joint-Comments-on-EPA-Community-Shutout-NSR-Permitting-Proposal-8_21_26.pdf. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0068 (pyrolysis/incinerator definitions): no September action found; docket not directly read. ————————
5. CHANNEL STATUS CHANGES
Review dates due this run: none (earliest 2026-11-06). Readability reclassifications (update Channel Map §3):
- WEST VIRGINIA — NSR listing page: DENIED → STATIC (readable in full). Document PDFs at apps.dep.wv.gov remain DENIED (empty bodies). AQB docket: STATIC.
- KENTUCKY — notices page: DENIED → STATIC (read in full).
- NORTH CAROLINA — STATIC, pagination stable this run.
- OKLAHOMA — new portal is STATIC but truncates at ~209 rows; 2026-series AQD applications sit past the cut. Needs a paged read or a browser.
- TEXAS — legacy pending lists frozen at 8/28 data; Permit Search Portal is now the only live source (JS). New PROVISIONAL channels (review 2026-12-10):
- Texas Register “In Addition” (sos.state.tx.us/texreg) — weekly Friday PDF; readable; carries TCEQ enforcement orders, water-quality application notices, and some air notices. Caught Eco Tire Processing enforcement. Promote if an in-scope TCEQ air or Ch. 328 notice appears here first.
- WVDEP NSR page as a standing enumeration source for the whole state (was worked only for Clean-Seas) — two in-scope facilities on one page (Clean-Seas, Empire Green) plus one ambiguous (BurCell). Recommend CONFIRMED now rather than at review: it meets the two-sighting rule today.
- Federal watch: EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-1212 added alongside -0068. Promotions / retirements: none formal this run. Recommend promoting the WVDEP NSR listing to CONFIRMED statewide enumeration on the two-sighting rule (above). Nevada NDEP: MediWaste final is a second sighting of the same out-of-scope facility; hold to 11-06 review, retire unless a plastics/tire SWMF appears. ————————
6. MOVEMENT ON KNOWN FIGHTS (context only)
- SOBE Youngstown: permit revoked 06-24 by Ohio EPA director at the receiver’s request; Youngstown’s ERAC appeal dismissed 07-22 as moot.
- Freepoint Hebron: care-and-maintenance since 05-28; five NOVs; Ohio EPA spokesman confirms coordination on compliance; no Director’s Final Findings and Orders located.
- Braven: Texarkana cancelled (05-24/28), Zebulon shut with equipment removed (06-25); Cumberland County VA project reported cancelled — not confirmed at a primary source.
- Eastman Longview methanolysis: on hold ≥2 years after loss of $375M DOE grant; NSR 177385 has dropped off readable pending lists.
- Reju Rochester: FID still pending at Technip Energies; no DEC filing; newest company news 07-01. ———————— Yield: 9 leads · 2 net-new to the log (Empire Green Generation WV, BurCell Martinsburg WV — watch) · 6 changes on known facilities (Clean-Seas appeal clock at 1 day, SOBE revoked, Green Mountain F-25-019 confirmed issued, Freepoint Yermo dates resolved, Hebron depolymerization signal, PureCycle financing) · 5 jurisdictions fully enumerated (IN, GA, KY, WV listing, NC), 4 partial (TX, OK, AZ, CA), 2 not read (OH, NY), OGW unread. ————————
PROCESS NOTE
- Clean-Seas is a one-day clock and nothing on the public record says anyone is filing. The docket read is clean as of this morning, but the AQB stopped posting documents 04-24, so a same-day filing would not show. This needs a phone call, not another sweep.
- Empire Green Generation was sitting on a page we had marked DENIED. The WVDEP NSR listing was readable this run and has been for an unknown number of weeks; the 13-3555B application has been pending since April. Channel Map §3 WV entry should say: listing STATIC, enumerate every run, all counties; PDFs DENIED. Lexicon §2 additions: “Part 241 determination” / “non-hazardous secondary material” as a pyrolysis tell; “Technotherm”; “Subpart JJJJ” engines burning pyrogas.
- Search budget. Four parallel agents consumed the session’s 200-search allowance before Section E (community petitions) and several facility follow-ups ran. Next run: sequence the agents, or cap each at 40 searches, and run community signals first since they have failed three runs straight.
- Fetch provenance rule. The fetcher only opens URLs that first appeared in a search result or a prior fetch; agency URLs typed from the Channel Map are refused. Workaround used: one domain-restricted search per agency to unlock the page. Add the workaround to Channel Map §2 so the next run does not lose twenty minutes rediscovering it. The OGW fact-sheet PDF was still refused even after appearing in a fetched page — paste it into a message and it becomes fetchable.
- Oklahoma portal truncates at 209 rows and the 2026-series applications (where Synthesia 2026-0031-C lives) are past the cut. Third run without a Synthesia status. Needs a browser pass or a partner in Oklahoma.
- Ohio unread for the fifth run. Alterra’s final renewal PTIO remains the longest-standing unresolved question in the file. The Akron Regional AQMD records request (Laura Miracle, lmiracle@schd.org) is the only path that does not depend on the JS app.
- Log corrections: Freepoint Yermo companion notice is 2026-06357, not 06360. Green Mountain issuance date 2025-10-07 now confirmed (mirror). Add SOBE row (revoked), Empire Green row, BurCell row (watch), MediWaste final (out of scope). Companion append sheet uploaded to Drive: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1O-6319MwgZNcxFVhe4YY2VEUUrgwTBLCjNgeDlj4nKE — paste into the master; the Drive connector still cannot append rows to it. Note the 09-03 companion sheet (1oI1v9yu8U222q…) has not yet been merged into the master either.
- EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-1212 is the structural threat to this whole sweep: if minor-NSR public notice becomes optional, the channel map goes dark by state statute rather than by JavaScript. Worth a line in the Monday brief.