Vice President Bruce Dumdei, Ph.D., serves as the head of CEC’s Environmental Training Courses (ETC) program and the corporate leader of CEC’s Air Quality practice. He has more than 30 years of experience specializing in air permitting (state, NSR/Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD), and Title V), compliance assistance, strategy development, regulatory negotiations, enforcement support, and professional training for industrial facilities. Dr. Dumdei provides expertise in the areas of major and minor permitting programs and hazardous air pollutant (HAP) regulations, including emission reporting and control methods. He is a national expert for the federal New Source Review (NSR) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) regulations. He also has expertise in the development of emissions inventories, including emissions calculation method development for criteria pollutants, air toxics, and greenhouse gas (GHG) pollutants, as well as the development of GHG compliance programs, and source and ambient air measurement programs.

Mr. McCorkle has 30 years leadership experience in the environmental industry, including six years environmental management for a major oil company, more than 20 years project/program management for international consulting firms, and two years geotechnical field experience. He has expertise in hydrocarbon/ petrochemical investigation and remediation, large-scale environmental project management, federal and state environmental regulations, risk-based corrective action, environmental/risk communication, legal issues related to contaminated property, and hydrogeologic data interpretation.

Mr. Cooper has over 20 years of experience working in air quality, including 5 years in source testing, 5 years in air quality consulting and 10 years working in the oil and gas industry in a variety of capacities.  While stack testing, Mr. Cooper performed and supervised source sampling activities on coal, oil and natural gas fired electricity generating units, glass manufacturing plants, limestone/aggregate operations, thermal dryers, asphalt plants, medical waste incinerators, oil and gas gathering/processing operations, as well as many others. Provided air quality consulting services including, but not limited to, minor and major source permitting, compliance auditing, penalty negotiations, emissions inventories, SARA 313 reporting, semiannual deviation and monitoring reports and visible emissions observations.  Mr. Cooper spent the biggest part of the last decade as an industry liaison to local and federal trade associations where he worked diligently to affect change and mitigate impacts to industry as a result of unfavorable regulatory actions.  Developed effective and successful relationships with regulators by working closely with Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection, Bureau of Air Quality; Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Air Pollution Control; West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection, Division of Air Quality; and the Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Air Quality, Planning and Standards.