This free IAQM webinar delivered by staff from the Environment Agency will give an overview of the development process for the new Environmental Assessment Levels (EALs) for the amines produced by carbon capture technology and the consultation process which follows this development. The Environment Agency uses EALs, in conjunction with the H1 risk assessment process, to judge the acceptability of proposed emissions to air from industrial processes, and their relative contribution to the environment. EALs represent a pollutant concentration in ambient air at which no appreciable risks or minimal risks to human health are expected. 

The speakers will also cover how these EALs will then be used in the permitting process and in detailed modelling assessments.

Our speakers 

Christina Higgins is a senior advisor in the Environment Agency’s Acoustics and Air Quality Modelling and Assessment Unit (AQMAU) with over a decade of experience in the field of air quality. She has a PhD in Chemistry and is a Chartered Environmentalist, with expertise from consultancy, industry and regulation. In her current role in AQMAU, she specialises in assessing and undertaking detailed dispersion modelling to support environmental permitting, regulatory decision-making and policy.

Hannah Hodson-Jeffery has been working for the Environment Agency for the last 13 years. Hannah came to the Environment Agency working on a project for the Air Quality Modelling and Assessment Unit (AQMAU) evaluating the impacts of bioaerosols both upwind and downwind of regulated sites. Following this, she worked within the AQMAU team for a number of years completing modelling assessments and providing advice to the permitting service. She recently moved to her current role as an air quality adviser within the national air quality team in the Environment Agency's chief regulators group. Through this role she has been involved in many air quality projects including the project which will be discussed in this webinar - the development of Environmental Assessment Levels (EALs) for carbon capture and storage technology.

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