Wes Younger serves as the manager of Trinity’s Bakersfield, California office. Wes has over 25 years of air quality experience, with over 15 of them in air quality consulting. He is a national subject matter expert on air regulations for municipal solid waste landfills, stationary engines, and emissions measurements at the smokestack, at the fenceline, and in ambient air. He has particular experience with MSW landfills, renewable natural gas production, nonmetallic minerals mining and processing, power generation, agriculture, food processing, petroleum and chemical distribution, and the manufacture and testing of space vehicles. As a locally oriented specialty, he also works with a major portion of California’s pistachio processing industry, which produces a majority of the global pistachio supply.

Having also consulted from Trinity’s Atlanta and Irvine offices, Wes has performed air permitting and compliance consulting in 24 jurisdictions from coast to coast; this gives him an unusual ability to compare and contrast regulations in various jurisdictions and advise on strategic siting of development projects. The majority of his office’s air practice is in the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District (SJVAPCD), which holds one of only two jurisdictions that have ever held an Extreme Nonattainment designation under the Clean Air Act. As such, he regularly oversees nonattainment permitting projects.

Wes holds the following credentials and industry involvements:

• Solid Waste Association of North America member
• Air and Waste Management Association member
• SJVAPCD Certified Air Permitting Professional (CAPP)
• SJVAPCD Dust Control Certificate
• California Air Resources Board (CARB)-accredited Lead Verifier for Greenhouse Gas Reports, including additional endorsements for verification of Transactions reports and for verification of Oil and Gas systems
• CARB-accredited Lead Verifier for the Low Carbon Fuels Standard, including additional endorsements for verification of Fuel Pathways, Alternative Fuel Transactions, and Petroleum-Based Fuel Reports
• Washington Department of Ecology accredited Third-Party Emissions Lead Verifier, including additional endorsement for verification of Transactions reports

He holds BS and MS degrees in Public Policy with an environmental concentration from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

Ms. Rivera currently serves as Senior Environmental Consultant at Trinity Consultants. She has over 18 years of multimedia environmental permitting and compliance expertise.

Ms. Rivera?s technical experience includes energy and water management and auditing, pollution prevention, spill prevention control and countermeasure plans, wastewater and storm water permitting, toxic release inventories, ISO 14001 lead internal audits and Environmental Management System certification, permitting for major and minor air sources, emission inventories, preparing environmental assessments for NEPA compliance, and permitting for fill/dredge activities on waters of the US. She has conducted comprehensive environmental audits and assessments and sustainability work at various industries in the conterminous United States, and Puerto Rico.

Ms. Rivera earned a bachelor?s in Environmental Engineering and a Master?s in Engineering Management from The Polytechnic University of Puerto Rico.

Ed Warner is an environmental engineer with 23 years of experience in the field of air quality. His environmental career began with 6 years as an air emissions tester, then transitioned to a nearly 14-year regulatory role as an air permitting engineer and then lead engineer with the Montana Department of Environmental Quality.

Ed then moved to the consulting field where he has continued to work as an air quality specialist for the past 2.5 years. He has technical experience in emissions calculations, regulatory review and analysis, air permitting and compliance, technical writing, and project management.

As Principal Consultant, Mike co-leads Trinity’s consulting operations in Austin, Texas. He has assisted clients in Texas, California, Oklahoma, South Dakota, and Mississippi with regulatory research, air dispersion modeling, and permit application preparation. Mike has performed Best Available Control Technology (BACT) analyses, emissions calculations, and evaluation of New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) requirements.

Additionally, he has prepared Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) reports and has experience with SCREEN3, ISCST3, ISC-PRIME, AERMOD, and other U.S. EPA-approved air dispersion models. Using ISCST3, Mike has modeled clients’ compliance with the National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) and Prevention of Significant Deterioration (PSD) Increments. He is an active participant in the implementation plan for AERMOD in the state of Texas. Mr. Meister has also taught Trinity’s Computer Dispersion Modeling Laboratory course and facilitated the development and delivery of custom modeling training in Colombia.

Mike earned his B.S. and M.S. degrees in Agricultural Engineering from Texas A&M University. His undergraduate and graduate employment experiences allowed him to deal directly with emerging air and water quality technologies.