Overall Rating Reporter - expired
Overall Score
Liaison Jennifer Lamy
Submission Date March 1, 2018
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STARS v2.1

Emerson College
OP-2: Outdoor Air Quality

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete Reporter Amy Elvidge
Sustainability Coordinator
Campus Services
"---" indicates that no data was submitted for this field

Part 1 

Does the institution have policies and/or guidelines in place to improve outdoor air quality and minimize air pollutant emissions from mobile sources on campus?:
Yes

None
A brief description of the policies and/or guidelines to improve outdoor air quality and minimize air pollutant emissions from mobile sources:
We follow Massachusetts and US EPA clean air policies. Our mobile fleet consists of one facilities truck and 4 Athletics Department operated vehicles. All vehicles are approved under the Massachusetts Registry of Motor Vehicles (RMV) and the Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), and have undergone a safety inspection and a smog and emission test. Each of our vehicles is in acceptable driving condition, does not pose a threat to other motorists, and is doing the least amount of environmental harm.

Part 2 

Has the institution completed an inventory of significant air emissions from stationary campus sources or else verified that no such emissions are produced?:
Yes

Weight of the following categories of air emissions from stationary sources::
Weight of Emissions
Nitrogen oxides (NOx) 0.74 Tons
Sulfur oxides (SOx) 0.02 Tons
Carbon monoxide (CO) 0 Tons
Particulate matter (PM) 0.55 Tons
Ozone (O3) 0 Tons
Lead (Pb) 0.00 Tons
Hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) 0 Tons
Ozone-depleting compounds (ODCs) 0 Tons
Other standard categories of air emissions identified in permits and/or regulations 0 Tons

None
A brief description of the methodology(ies) the institution used to complete its air emissions inventory:
Sightlines, our benchmarking contractor, provides us with MMbtus of our Scope 1 natural gas consumption and associated CH4, CO2 and N2O emissions. I was able to calculate the additional emission sources using EPA's AP-42: Compilation of Air Emission Factors.

Optional Fields

The website URL where information about the programs or initiatives is available:
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Additional documentation to support the submission:
Air Emissions FY17 stationary sources.csv

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:
Not listed: 0.397 tons TOCs 0.198 tons VOCs 0.1367 CH4 No data for CO

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