"I am always doing what I cannot do yet, in order to learn how to do it"
-Vincent Van Gogh

Joshua Hemperly

After graduating from NCSU, Josh worked in URS Corporation’s Morrisville, NC office as an environmental scientist and air quality consultant. During this time Josh provided permitting, compliance, and facility expansion guidance to a wide variety of clients operating in EPA region 4. These services included Potential-to-Emit (PTE) calculations, Air Emissions Inventories (AEIs), Toxic Release Inventories (TRIs), dispersion modeling demonstrations for criteria and toxics pollutants, EPCRA 312/313 reporting, and the Information Collection Request (ICR) in support of the EPA’s Kraft Pulp Mills NSPS Review. His major clients during this time were Department of Defense facilities maintained by the Army, Marine Corp, and Air Force; as well as leaders in the pulp and paper, pharmaceutical, software and technology, tire manufacturing, brick manufacturing, and phosphate mining industries.

Josh is currently an air quality consultant and project manager at Tetra Tech Inc. in Ann Arbor, MI. He manages junior level staff and provides permitting and compliance services to clients operating in various EPA regions. These companies are concentrated in power generation and the automobile industry, with additional clients in food technology, metals mining and refining, aviation, waste incineration, and banking.