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With over 30 years of Smoke school experience and 3 retired Louisiana DEQ inspectors on staff, and over 100 nationwide locations for your convenience, we are without a doubt the nations leading Smoke School Provider. Welcome to Whitlow Smoke School. If you searched for Whitlow Smoke School, visible emissions certification training, smoke school certification, opacity, EPA Method 9, EPA Method 22, or smoke reader, then you are lucky, because your search is over. Pick up the phone and call us. We have been standing by waiting for your call. If you searched for smoking in school in Egypt or smoke jumper, This ain't it. You got the wrong number. Try 411 information. Who would a thunk of jumping out of a perfectly good airplane? If you searched for The Chicken Shooter Cannon click here. Otherwise you are in the right place at the right time. Welcome home to Whitlow.

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First, a personal note from George “Uncle Buck” Whitlow founder and President: I would like to thank our employees and all of you friends and customers for choosing Whitlow and sticking with us. I have been seeing many of you every 6 months since my beginning smoke schools in 1984. When I started this independent company in 2001, many of you came along for the ride. This is all I know how to do. In the late 1970s, when I was a young Buck, a Technical Sergeant E-6, assigned to Environmental Health at USAF Hospital, Royal Air Force Alconbury England UK, I had a friend who said that he was born to make teeth. He made false teeth for veterans who had missing teeth due to wartime injury. He reconstructed smiles and changed lives. He told me that he was born to make teeth. He made as good a tooth as you ever put into your mouth. I guess I was born to blow smoke and make smoke schools. I would rather be a cowboy or pitch for the New York Yankees, but those were my first dreams. You have all blessed my life, my family, and our employees. Thank you all.

Happy Trails to you until we meet again, by my first heroes Roy Rogers and Dale Evans. My heroes have always been cowboys and they still are it seems.

Federal and state inspectors, lawyers, and industry staff consistently choose Whitlow for training they can depend on that will stand up in court. We are not just blowing smoke, we read it, and we train you to calibrate your eyeball into a fine tuned scientific instrument capable of reading smoke accurately to within 5% opacity. We teach you the basic fundamentals of opacity. If you concentrate on the fundamentals, just like falling off a log or playing baseball, you can do it right the first time. If all else fails, read the instructions. Warning! Smoke Reading is habit forming. People who have attended Whitlow Smoke School Nation have been known to observe little ole ladies burning leaves in the ditch on the side of the road and say out loud, "Without a doubt, that is 75% opacity" even though there is nobody in the truck to listen. Choose your smoke school provider carefully. As a retired Louisiana DEQ inspector, I have known for many years that some companies who call themselves environmental companies have zero knowledge about your particular industry or your pollution solutions. (In the beginning we used to say, "The solution to pollution is dilution." Build those smokestacks real high and airmail the pollution to Cuba COD.) Choose the wrong environmental company and like BP, Chevron, and the rest of the major oil producers did, and you could end up in the hot seat explaining about walruses in the Gulf of Mexico and why you can't really control 200,000 barrels of oil spill a day as stated on your Oil Spill Response Plan. These oil producers paid top dollar for environmental reports, but obviously chose an environmental company that writes flowering sentences, spells correctly, but has zero common knowledge or common horse sense. You need to choose your smoke school carefully and select a provider with experience, practicality, and good horse sense. Whitlow knows smoke school and Whitlow has the most experience in environmental enforcement. You can take that to the bank. It is better to trust Whitlow than it is to rust. Even small environmental problems can mushroom, shut down your plant, cause layoffs, penalties, fines and lawsuits. Environmental problems can make you put on a suit and be a guest speaker with Larry King or Anderson Cooper on CNN. Do it right the first time. Choose Whitlow.

Looks Like I got a cow by the tail bull by the horns. Bull of the Woods

Photos taken at Enchanted Springs Wild West Ranch near San Antonio Texas

Airborne particulates such as smoke and dust have been linked to adverse health effects, formation of greenhouse gases, climate change, and global warming. Recently, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has stepped up to the plate by implementing several regulations that require better control of particulates. In addition, the government is requiring more plants to attend smoke school to learn how to correctly evaluate opacity and visible emissions to document compliance. Due to these stronger opacity monitoring requirements and to your increasing demands for our quality services, we are expanding to new states and locations. We will consider any location where we can find at least 10 people from a plant or a combination of plants in the area. We are creating a list of potential locations. Click here to be added to the list for new locations.

Would you buy a pickup truck without looking under the hood, checking the oil, kicking the tires, and taking her for a spin and test driving her? Give Whitlow Smoke School Nation a test drive on me. Here are the keys. We are proud of our company & we know we are the best that ever was. If you are a first time customer company or plant (OR if you have not tried Whitlow Smoke School Nation in 2 years) please download and print out this attached Free Seminar Gift Certificate good for one of your employees to attend any open enrollment initial or recertification EPA Method 9 & EPA Method 22 Visible Emissions Opacity Evaluation seminar classroom and field certification test session on our schedule. If the Free Seminar Gift Certificate download did not work or if you fear downloads, then email smokeschool@yahoo.com with a fax number or a mailing address and we will send you one pronto. We are very confident that once you try Whitlow Smoke School Nation, you will never settle for anything or anyone less. If I said Whitlow was the best smoke school in America, I would be bragging. If I said anything less, then I would be lying. All of our customers and friends keep coming back time and time again, some for more than 30 years. You keep coming back because we teach you right the first time. We make it educational, fun, and we feed you great lunches. Over the years, I have heard many say that we came just to eat. We have had a couple weddings at smoke school and one or two funerals. Read what our friends and customers have to say about us.

Due to your increasing demands for our high quality user friendly top notch services, we are expanding at a phenomenal rate. We are rapidly adding new locations and new states. We will consider any location where we can register 10 people or more from any plant or combination of plants in the area. Please contact your local plants and email smokeschool@yahoo.com to suggest a location. If your company has several locations in any state or several states, we will be happy to add smoke schools for your entire company at a discount rate. Since I created Whitlow Smoke School Nation in September 2001 after I retired as a State Inspector and Smoke School Provider for Louisiana DEQ, we have conducted company wide smoke schools for many companies such as Vulcan, Smucker's, Campbell's Soup, Proctor & Gamble, Folgers Coffee, and Entergy. We exist for your convenience. Without you, we are just blowing smoke.

I am an old hippie from the 1960's and I have been inspired by real American heroes that I have actually met like Ronald Reagan and Walter Cronkite. I am dedicated to preserving the environment for our children and grandchildren. Airborne particulate such as smoke & dust combine with sunlight and other air pollution to help create an unhealthy environment for all living creatures on God's green earth. We are all chosen as stewards of our own environment. As Woodsey Owl says, "Give a Hoot! Don't Pollute." We should not depend on more government alone to keep us healthy. I think you should take a kid fishing today. If you choose Whitlow I guarantee you will "Look Sharp, Feel Sharp, Be Sharp" just like the Gillette Razor Blade Parrot sings. I met my good friend and mentor, Garrison Keillor, while strolling along the Mississippi River on the side walk under the giant magnolia trees with the bark like elephant skin and large teacup white flowers in the lawn of the Old State Capitol in downtown Baton Rouge. When Mark Twain passed by the Old State Capitol in a steamboat, he said it was the ugliest building he ever seen. I will close out this letter of invitation to you with a few quotes, that I have heard Garrison say at the end of his weekly broadcast on A Prairie Home Companion out there on the Prairie, "Be well, do good work, and stay in touch. And that is the news from Lake Whitlow Begone where all the women are strong, all the men are good looking, and all of the children are above average." Thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for your continued friendship, loyalty, and support. That is about all I have to say about that.

Buck Whitlow, Founder, President & CEO Whitlow Enterprises Smoke School Nation.

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), & State & Local Environmental Protection Agencies require initial visible emissions certification and recertification every 6 months in order to complete opacity and smoke, dust, and particulate, reading requirements of Title V (Title 5) Permit Regulation and Enforcement Practices. Certified smoke readers and opacity readers are highly sought out by industries that are subject to inspection and need to comply with Title V. Whitlow Smoke School Nation presents user friendly technical training in opacity evaluation, but does not require prerequisite formal education in science, engineering, or technology. Anyone can be trained as a smoke reader. You do not have to be a rocket scientist. Participants in Whitlow Smoke School will be trained to visually read the opacity of industrial plumes and conduct tests in accordance with EPA Method 9 and EPA Method 22. (The last time I checked all States and USA territories were all still part of the United States of America and were under the Clean Air Act. Anyone who says different is itching for a fight. ) Successful candidates who attend training and pass the Whitlow EPA FEDERAL certification test will receive a certificate within 3 weeks of the training date. These certificates are valid for 6 months. All participants must successfully attend recertification training every 6 months in order to maintain certification requirements. EPA tests conducted by non-certified individuals are invalid and can result in violations, penalties, negative press releases, and stock market collapse. A Notice of Violation (NOV) is critical, please email smokeschool@yahoo.com immediately if you receive one. Your permit should list your visible emissions sources and the minimum opacity documentation requirements and frequency of observation. Whitlow feels that you should document compliance above and beyond the minimum requirements. We feel that as a minimum you should have enough certified smoke readers on hand to document opacity compliance of each potential source at least once for each daylight shift. You should keep good records including smoke school certificates, log book entries for opacity, log book entries for pollution control device maintenance, and completed EPA Method 9 Forms and EPA Method 22 Forms. When the inspector comes, fill your hands. Your smokestack is highly visible and represents the flag that tells what condition your condition is in. As a former Louisiana DEQ inspector, I frequently drove along the highway watching for obvious smoke violations to determine how I would spend the rest of the day. Opacity violations always have an underlying cause. The causes often result in additional violations. Like drunk driving, all violations are accumulative by plant and by company name and are used by state, local, and federal agencies to document company records & trends for establishing monetary penalties. Smoke school certificates are valid for 6 months. Therefore like a bridge over troubled water, Whitlow is there for you at each location every 6 months. Whitlow Smoke School Nation is trusted by more industrial plants than Carter has liver pills.

Our training is in accordance with EPA Method 9 and EPA Method 22 according to 40 CFR Part 60, Appendix A and all federal, state, and local regulations, laws, and permits. Whitlow Enterprises LLC Smoke School is a responsible, professional, courteous, nationwide family owned and operated company. We conduct smoke schools at each location every 6 months. You can register for one of the open enrollment schools on our schedule or you can set up an onsite school for your entire company or plant. Since our staff has such vast knowledge and experience in all aspects of environmental regulation, you may refer any questions regarding visible emissions or any other environmental concerns to us. We will help you. We are not out here just blowing smoke, we can and we will help you. Other companies may imitate us, build smoke machines in a failed attempt to get rich quick, and beat our prices. In the long run, environmental violations affect your pocket book and your reputation with the State and the public. Trust the best, trust the most experienced, trust Whitlow. We know your certificate is important. We mail paper and business card certificates within 3 weeks of the school date, even if the invoice has not been paid.

As the nations' leading environmental visible emissions provider, Whitlow Enterprises Smoke School delivers visible emissions training and certification with an uncompromising commitment to customer service, safety, value and quality to our clients. We assist you in making responsible, cost effective decisions. We will ensure that every dollar you invest in protecting your business is spent wisely and will have the most significant impact. Now that is about as professional as this webpage gets. The honest truth is that like my good friend Forrest Gump of Bubba Gump Shrimp on Route 17 in Greenbow Alabama, we are special. Life is just like a box of chocolates, you never know just what you are gonna get. Bubba Blue sums it all up- Whitlow knows everything there is to know about the smoke school bidness. To find out what makes us so special and sets us miles apart from all of the others, you need to read the rest of the story. As my good friend and mentor Paul Harvey, the most listened to man in radio, always used to say- "Here is the rest of the Story." CLICK THE DOOR TO ENTER THE REST OF THE STORY or scroll down for user friendly important links to additional information. Note the Rest of the story is the original home page with all of the music, animations and photographs.

Whitlow Enterprises Smoke School

1305 Charles Griggs RD

West Monroe, LA 71292

Phone: 318-361-2355 FAX: 318-327-3199 Email smokeschool@yahoo.com

Home Page: www.smokeschool.net

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Uncle Buck's Whitlow Smoke School Nation, more fun and trusted by more industrial plants than Carter Has Liver Pills. It ain't just smoke school. We are not just another smoke blower. We are an adventure, a whole nother world. We cook for you and we give these as prizes (left) to make it more fun for you and competitive. You work hard long hours and you deserve a break today.

57 Chevy Pickup- In 1966 Coach Buck Stewart was my freshman football coach at Neville HS in Monroe. I loved him so much that I adopted his name. Coach Buck had a 1957 Chevy Apache Pick-up Truck that I could not keep my eyes off. I went to Buck's funeral last year and I asked his wife if he still had that truck. For some reason I have always remembered that truck. I am looking for a 1957 Chevy Pickup that is fully restored. Email smokeschool@yahoo.com if you know where I can find one.

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Ringelmann pocket smoke charts 99.9% illegal but 100% accurate for black smoke only- The difference between illegal and unlawful- an illegal is a sick bird- the bartender asked me if I had an ID. I said an ID about what?

Boudreaux Level to determine vertical angle for reading opacity

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