ETG Environmental Technology Group, Inc.

Expertise: Air Pollution Control and Waste Management

Professional Profile

A former Chief of Technology Assessment for the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, Mr. Lauber has over 30 years experience in air pollution control, thermal treatment, waste incineration, industrial hygiene, and the control of toxic contaminants. He is familiar with plasma arc, and other thermal waste pyrolysis and gasification technologies; including tire pyrolysis into synthetic fuels, and other waste recycling processes. He's an expert on air pollution control systems for several chemical, industrial processes and operations. He has also been an environmental consultant to the Portland Cement Industry, thermal gasification, and waste processing technology firms. Mr. Lauber is a Certified 3rd Party New York State perchloroethylene dry cleaning industry inspector; and an expert on environmental controls for the dry cleaning industry. He has expertise in the disposal of PCB's, dioxin wastes, sludges and contaminated soils by incineration, and in burning hazardous wastes as waste fuels in industrial combustion sources. He is an expert on municipal, medical and hazardous waste incineration, waste to energy technologies, thermal gasification, dioxin and mercury controls. He knows about dry and wet scrubbers and other air cleaning technologies; and the control of toxic and odorous emissions from various processes. He is also an expert on a new environmental co-polymer filtration technology for the removal of complex hydrocarbons from air and wastewater streams. In addition. Mr. Lauber has appeared as an expert witness in several environmental litigations in the U.S. and abroad. He is the recipient of the Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, NESCAUM, Meritorious Service Award.

A Licensed New York State Professional Engineer, and a Qualified Environmental Professional (QEP), Mr. Lauber is an Adjunct Lecturer on thermal treatment/air pollution control technologies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. In addition, he has lectured at SUNY at Albany, Union College, Rutgers University, NYU, NYS Department of Environmental Conservation – USEPA, Hebrew University, Columbia University, The Technion, and Tel Aviv University. Mr. Lauber holds a Bachelor of Chemical Engineering Degree from New York University. He also performed Chemical Engineering graduate studies at NYU, and Environmental graduate studies at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Mr. Lauber is a Diplomate in the American Academy of Environmental Engineers. He has been a member and officer of the Air and Waste Management Association, an honorary member of the New York Academy of Sciences, and a member of the Special Congressional Scientific National Technical Peer Review Panel for the Rocky Flats, Colorado mixed nuclear / hazardous waste incineration facility. He was also a Chairman of the Air Pollution Control Association’s Middle Atlantic States Section. Mr. Lauber received a Special Environmental Award from the Israel Ministry of Health Environmental Research Institute in 1986, and has been an environmental advisor to the Israel government. He has authored or co-authored several technical papers and presentations, with lectures in the U. S. and abroad. Mr. Lauber is listed in “Who’s Who in Environmental Engineering”, and. “Who’s Who in the World”. He has consulted and testified as an expert witness in several industrial air pollution control/waste incineration cases. He was chair of the NESCAUM Air Toxic Control Technology Subcommittee and received a special award for his services.

Representative Experience

Israel Ministry of Interior, Environmental Protection Service 1977-83; Municipality of Haifa, Israel, Ministry of Health, 1982-89.
Maclaren Engineers, Ontario, Canada, BACT for municipal medical / waste incineration, London, Ontario, 4/83
CT. Dept. of Environmental Protection. Expert, BACT, MSW Incineration, 1984
Florida Dept. of Environmental Regulation. Expert, BACT, MSW Incineration 1985,86.
Power Recovery Systems, Cambridge, MA, BACT for Fluidized Bed Incineration
Newman & Holtzinger, P.C., Washington, D.C./Babcock & Wilcox Co., APC consultant on low level radioactive waste incineration technology 1987.
The Conservancy, Naples, FL, Collier County Resource Recovery Project
Technical Consultant to Congressman D. Skaggs, Colorado, on the Rocky Flats Low Level Radioactive/Hazardous Waste Incinerator, 6/87
Vermont Public Service Board. Consultant on BACT MSW incineration 1988
Bermuda National Trust. Environmental Consultant on Municipal Waste Incineration BACT Technology, 1987
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Combustion Research Project, 1988-91
Consultant to the Mayor of Omaha, Nebraska on the Regulation of Medical Waste Incineration, 10/89
Consultant to South Carolina Law Firm on Medical Waste Incineration, 1991
Systech, Inc., Dallas, Texas, Burning Wastes in Cement Kilns, 1991
Ash Grove Cement West Co. Montana. Burning wastes in cement kilns, 1992
Israel Environmental Services Co. BACT for hazardous and medical waste incineration 1993, 94
Hazardous waste incineration consultant and expert witness for Thermal Kem Rock Hill South Carolina 1994, 95.
Consultant and expert witness on medical waste incineration, Cork Ireland, 1994, 95 to present.
Consultant for CT Male Inc. on proposed hazardous waste incinerators for Portugal, 1995.
Israel Union For Environmental Defense consultant on hazardous waste incineration 1995-97
Consultant Waste Policy Institute/ U.S. Dept. of Energy, on thermal treatment technologies 1996
Consultant Young & Rowe ,dry cleaning control technology litigation 8/97
Consultant USEPA/Battelle Inst. Peer review of Cleaner Technologies Substitutes Assessment Report ,CSTA 8/97
Consultant to 1612 Third Ave. Partners New York NY. Dry cleaning control system inspection, review and comment on innovative environmental lease for compliance with NYS environmental regulations, 1996, 97.
Consultant to Environmental Technology Council, Washington DC on Marine Shale/GTX Morgan City LA hazardous waste incineration project, 9/98.
Consultant to TPS Technologies, Apopka Fl&E3Killam Environmental Services, on permitting a thermal soil remediation project, Westinghouse site, Buffalo NY 1999
Consultant on environmental control technologies NY State Attorney General 1999-2000.
Technical peer review consultant to St. Lawrence Cement Co. Greenport NY project 2000.
Consultant, LL&S Wastewood Processing Plant, Salem NH 2000
Expert witness, Young & Sommer, Sydney NY hazardous waste disposal litigation, 2000.
Consultant Town of Cortlandt NY-Air Pollution Assessment of toxic metals in ash. 2001-02.
Consultant to Masada Resources Co. MSW, sewage sludge to ethanol, Middletown NY project. 2001 to present
Consultant, Gordon Law, W. Orange, NJ, Ciba Geigy hazardous waste incineration case 2001-02.
Consultant, Jones, Verras & Freiberg New Orleans LA, dry cleaning contamination case, 2002.

Publications

"Air Pollution Control", 12/68, Environmental Engineering Seminar, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
“Control of Solvent Vapor Emissions”, APCA, 6/69
“New Developments in the Handling and Disposal of Special Wastes,” Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute 5/69
“NYS Industrial Air Pollution Control Program”, Second World Congress of Engineers and Architects, 12/70, Israel
“Odors and Air Pollution”, Rutgers University, 10/71
“Controlling Air Pollution from Cement Plants,” Third World Congress of Engineers and Architects, 12/71, Israel
“Air Pollution Control Aspects of Aluminum and Copper Recycling Processes,” Pollution Engineering Magazine, 12/73
NYS Department of Environmental Conservation - Process Source Handbook, a manual of industrial air pollution control recommendations, 3/75
“Control of Toxic Air Contaminants in New York State,” 10/77, MASS-APCA
“The Incineration of Toxic Chemical Wastes,” 10/77, MASS-APCA
“Incineration of Toxic Chemical Wastes,” Pollution Engineering Magazine, 10/78
“Burning Toxic Chemical Wastes in Cement Kilns and Other Mineral Product Industries.” World Congress of Engineers and Architects, 12/79, Israel
“Industrial Air Pollution in Israel”, a compilation of Industrial Air Pollution Control Reports on 14 Industries in Israel. Israel Ministry of the Interior, Environmental Protection Service, 12/79
“Burning Toxic Wastes in Industrial Kilns”. Proceedings of the Conference on Toxic and Hazardous Chemicals, 1/9/80, Syracuse, N.Y.
“Best Available Control Technology for Plastics and Resins Industries, Phenolic Resins”. NYS DEC, 7/80
“Regulation of the Incineration of Hazardous Wastes”. APCA Conference, Toxic Air Contaminants, 10/10/80, Niagara Falls, New York
“The Burning Issue of Disposing of Hazardous Wastes,” Israel Ecological Society, 5/81, Israel
“Burning Chemical Wastes as Synthetic Fuels in Cement Plants,” Air Pollution Control Association, 6/81, Philadelphia, PA
“Burning Chemical Wastes as Fuels in Cement Kilns,” Journal of the Air Pollution Control Association, 7/82
“New Approaches for Regulating Toxic Air Contaminants and the Burning of Hazardous Wastes as Fuels”, The Technion, Israel, 5/82
“Regulating the Burning of Waste Fuels”, B.T. Delaney, W.J. Hinckley, J.D. Lauber, American Institute of Chemical Engineers, Cleveland, Ohio.
“The Need for Best Available Control Technology for Resource Recovery Facilities”. Israel Ecological Society, 5/21/83
“Control of Dioxin Emissions from Incineration”, A.J. Teller and J.D. Lauber; presented at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Air Pollution Control Association, Atlanta, GA, 6/21/83
“Best Available Control Technology for Incineration Processes.” Waste Incineration Symposium, Columbia Greene College, 9/12/83
NYSDEC position paper: “An Assessment of the Need for BACT for Resource Recovery Facilities,” 10/12/84
“An Update on BACT for Resource Recovery Facilities and Optimum Combustion Conditions to Minimize Emissions for Toxic Air Contaminants,” Waste Incineration Seminar, Florida 3/87
“PCB’s and the Environment” Volume III; author, chapter on the destruction, disposal of PCB’s. CRC Press, Boca Raton, Florida 3/87
“Regulating the Burning of Waste Fuels for Energy Recovery in New York State,” W. Sonntag, J.D. Lauber, APCA International Hazardous Waste Workshop, 4/85, New York, NY
“The Burning Issue of Hospital Waste Incineration”, APCA International Hazardous Waste Workshop, 5/85, Buffalo, New York
Co-author of “The Smoldering Question of Hospital Waste Incineration” Pollution Engineering Magazine, 7/85
“An Overview of the Burning Issues of Municipal and Hospital Waste Incineration”, 3/1/86 University of Florida.
“The Burning Toxic Issue of Hospital Waste Incineration”. Israel Ecological Society, Israel, 6/86
“Toxic Emissions from Small Incinerators”, New York Academy of Sciences, 11/19/86
“New Perspectives on Toxic Emissions from Hospital Waste Incinerators”, New York State Solid Waste Commission, New York, N.Y. 2/12/87
“Controlled Commercial/Regional Incineration of Biomedical Wastes”, International Conference - Incineration of Low Level Radioactive and Mixed Wastes 4/22/87, St. Charles, Illinois
“An Overview of Toxic Emissions and Best Available Control Technology for Municipal Waste Incineration”, American Society of Civil Engineers, 4/28/87, Atlantic City, New Jersey
“The Need for Incineration of Low Level Radioactive Wastes”. Air Pollution Control Association Technical Conference “Air Pollution from Incineration and Resource Recovery” 11/4/87, Atlantic City, New Jersey
“Best Available Control Technology, and Alternate Technologies for Municipal Solid Waste Resource Recovery”, Conference Safe Waste Disposal for Southern California, Monrovia, CA. 1/29/88
“The Incineration of Low Level Radioactive Wastes”, Third Conference on Toxic Substances, sponsored by Environment Canada, APCA, and The Quebec Ministry of the Environment, 4/88, Montreal, Canada
“Best Available Control Technologies for Regional Hospital and Hazardous Waste Co-incineration”. Israel Ecological Society, 6/4/89.
“Best Controlled Technologies for Regional Biomedical Waste Incineration”, with Donald A. Drum. Annual Meeting of the Air and Waste Management Association, Pittsburgh, PA., 6/7/90
“The Safe Burning of Waste Fuels in Cement Kilns”, presented to the Texas Legislature, Austin, Texas, 3/20/91
“Best Available Control Technology and Exposure Reduction Methods for Dry Cleaning Operations”, presented at the USEPA International Roundtable on Pollution Prevention and Control in the Dry Cleaning Industry, Falls Church VA 5/27/92
“The Safe Burning of Wastes in Cement Kilns”, presented to the Maryland Legislature, Annapolis, MD 2/19/92
“The Safe Burning of Wastes by Thermal Incineration”, presented at the International Toxic Substances Conference, Montreal, Canada 4/2/92
“Ionizing Wet Scrubber Pilot Test Results for Controlling Emissions from a Liquid Waste Incinerator”, Re: Occidental Chemical Co.’s Niagara Falls, N.Y. hazardous waste incinerator; with W. Troxler, G. Smith, C. Henke, Focus Environmental Inc., J. Czapla, J. Segada, Occidental Chemical Co. Presented at the annual meeting of the Air and Waste Management Assn. Kansas City, MO., 6/21/92.
“Waste Management And Treatment Or Disguised Disposal?” with Dr. Donald Drum. Presented at the annual meeting of the Air and Waste Management Assn. Kansas City MO. 6/22/92. · “An Investigation of Indoor Air Contamination in Residences Above Dry Cleaners” by J. Schreiber et al and J. Lauber. J. Risk Analysis vol. 13 no.3, 1993.
Myths And Facts About The Burning Issue Of Incineration” with Joseph Santoleri P.E. and Dr. Louis Theodore. Presented at the annual meeting of the Air and Waste Management Assn. Denver CO. 6/15/93.
“State-Of-The-Art Technologies for Multi-Media Pollution Control in the Dry Cleaning Industry” by Jack D. Lauber P.E. and Gerard Pallente P.E. ,presented at the seventh annual Pollution Prevention Conference, 6/3/94 Albany N.Y.
“A&WMA Medical Waste Treatment Committee Comments on NSPS and Emission Guidelines For Medical Waste Incinerators” with R.G. Hyland, C. Konheim, D. Drum, and J. Heinrich. Presented at the Solid Waste Management Thermal Treatment & Waste-To-Energy Technologies Conference, Washington D.C. April 18-21, 1995.
“ Hazardous /Medical Waste Disposal by the Plasma Energy Technology System” with M. Chaskin et al Vanguard Research Corp. Presented at the Sixth International Conference “Preservation of Our World in the Wake of Change”/IUAPPA, Jerusalem Israel 6/30/96
“State-Of-The-Art Air Pollution Control for Waste Incinerators” with D. Drum and B.J. Lerner. Presented at the Sixth International Conference (above) 6/30/96.
“Dioxins in Perspective” Tel Tech .Com; an international Internet report, May 29, 2000

Jack D. Lauber, P.E