Principal
Civil & Environmental Consultants
Mr. Cooper works for Civil & Environmental Consultants, Inc. as an office lead for their Cleveland office as well as a Principal in the Air Quality practice. He has over 20 years of experience working in air quality, including 5 years in source testing, 6 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, NESHAP area MACT determinations, 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. Mr. Cooper graduated from Marshall University in 1998 with a Bachelor of Science degree in biology.