Leadership

Franklin Woodland led the team that designed and developed SPCC SelfCert. With experts from environmental engineering, environmental law and software engineering, he created the specifications and managed the development effort.

Franklin has been managing, designing and marketing custom software solutions for over 20 years. His customers have included Northrop Grumman, Northwestern University, IBM, H&R Block, Microsoft, Panasonic, Allstate, Accenture, United Airlines and Gatorade.

SPCC SelfCert was engineered in Chicago where Franklin lives with his wife Diana and three children- Trevor, Muriel and Spencer. In his free time, Franklin enjoys running, reading the New Yorker magazine and spending time with his family. He can be contacted at 312.857.6501 or fwoodland@spccselfcert.com.

Rex Lowman is an experienced leader and manager well versed in leading mission-critical initiatives. He is accomplished in managing large scale national and international efforts in industries including Manufacturing, Health-care, Technology and Banking Services. Rex’s roles have included Chief Operations Officer, Client Relations Manager and Program Manager.

Rex’s clients and partners include Walmart®, Walgreen’s®, Blue-Cross Blue-Shield, Philips Electronics, Moody’s Investors Services and US Foods. Rex believes in building strong relationships with internal and external partners. He is strategically focused with proven leadership skills in coaching, team-building and managing to objectives.

On a personal level Rex enjoys skiing, sailing, biking and hiking with his wife Joyce.

David Wright is the CTO for SPCC SelfCert. He has worked in Information Technology since his days at Wheaton College, where he majored in Ancient Languages. Why Ancient Languages? “I figured I’d start my programming career writing an abacus assembler.” Since then David has worked in C on Unix, C++ on Win32 platforms, C# on .NET, Java, Linux, PHP/MySql, Perl, Ruby, Groovy. “If it’s not COBOL, I probably have worked in it,” says Wright. His only regret? “I’ve never programmed on a Mac–I’m just not hip enough.” David’s next big project is to write an Eiffel compiler in Haskell. “I’m drawn to languages with doubled consonants.”

David lives in Chicago, IL, with his wife Beth, loves to read, frequently talks about going on long bike rides and can quote you the first lines of Dante’s Inferno in Italian, or the beginning of Winnie the Pooh in Latin (Winnie Ille Pu), if you ask nicely, or even if you don’t ask.

Trevor Woodland is Director of Facility Sales. He is currently a student at the University of Illinois and plans to attend law school.

Trevor is on a 16 inch summer softball team in Chicago and enjoys spending time with his friends. He can be reached at twoodland@spccselfcert.com.

SPCC Compliance Date 2011

On October 7, 2010, EPA maintained the November 10, 2010, compliance date for drilling, production or workover facilities that are offshore or that have an offshore component, and for onshore facilities required to have and submit Facility Response Plans (FRPs). However, EPA extended the compliance date an additional year for all other facilities to amend [...]

SPCC Compliance Date Amendment

On June 11, 2009, EPA again extended the compliance date for all facilities to November 10, 2010. Facilities must amend or prepare, and implement SPCC Plans by the compliance date in accordance with revisions to the SPCC rule promulgated since 2002. Farms must also amend or prepare their SPCC Plans, and implement those Plans by [...]

National Fuel Efficiency Policy

WASHINGTON, DC – President Obama today – for the first time in history – set in motion a new national policy aimed at both increasing fuel economy and reducing greenhouse gas pollution for all new cars and trucks sold in the United States. The new standards, covering model years 2012-2016, and ultimately requiring an average [...]

EPA Student Awards

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EPA Plan for Renewable Fuels

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EPA Hazardous Waste Rules

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Methylmercury Contamination

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EPA Discusses Recovery Act

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EPA Reviews Source Rules

(04/27/09) EPA notified petitioners of its intent to reconsider portions of three rules under its New Source Review (NSR) permitting program. The rules under review determine when and how facilities are required to: 1. account for air emissions that are not released through a stack, vent or other confined air stream; 2. keep records on [...]

EPA Reduces Mercury Emissions

(Washington, D.C. – April 21, 2009) EPA is proposing to significantly reduce mercury emissions from Portland cement kilns, the fourth-largest source of mercury air emissions in the U.S. The proposal would set the nation’s first limits on mercury emissions from existing Portland cement kilns and would strengthen the limits for new kilns. The proposed standards [...]