The State of Energy Storage: What You Need to Know
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of McRae, Arkansas entered into a June 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality ("DEQ") and Crowleys Ridge College ("Crowleys Ridge") entered into a February 20th Consent Administrative Order ("CAO") addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Dumas, Arkansas, entered into a January 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and East End Holdings, LLC (“East End”) entered into a January 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and the City of Gosnell, Arkansas (“Gosnell”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) to address an alleged...more
It is clear that these have been busy months for federal environmental regulators, especially those working at EPA, the federal departments and the Council on Environmental Quality. Even the Department of Agriculture has...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Statue Road Inn (“SRI”) entered into a June 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
On August 10, 2023, the Department of Energy (“DOE”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (“NOPR”) proposing to establish an integrated Coordinated Interagency Transmission Authorizations Program (“CITAP Program”) that...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Joiner, Arkansas, (“Joiner”) entered into a May 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
The EPA issued a final Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) rule that announces the biofuel volume targets for 2023 – 2025 and provides a first look into the EPA’s plans for implementing the program moving forward. The RFS...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Hardy, Arkansas (“Hardy”) entered into a February 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Woodlawn School District #6 (“Woodlawn”) entered into a December 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
Late Wednesday evening, Senator Manchin released the closely guarded text on his proposal to reform domestic energy permitting. This legislation was the subject of a handshake agreement between Manchin, Senator Schumer,...more
As noted in an April 27th blog post, the Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief in the United States District Court...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Imboden, Arkansas, (“Imboden”) entered into a May 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism (“Parks”) entered into a March 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Shannon Hills, Arkansas (“Shannon Hills”) entered into a March 1st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Tri-City Utilities, Inc. (“Tri-City”) entered into a March 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court (“Eastern District –...more
The Conservation Law Foundation (“CLF”) submitted a December 9th Petition to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (“CDEEP”) styled: Re: Petition for a Determination that Certain Commercial,...more
Kern County sues Governor Newsom over oil and gas development permits - Courthouse News Service – September 13 - Kern County, California’s largest oil and gas producing county, claims in a federal lawsuit filed on...more
In late December, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the “Fall 2019 Unified Agenda of Regulatory Actions” just a few days before the Calendar turned to the year 2020....more
Environmental Groups Accuse Multiple Mining Sites of Violating Federal Regulations - "Allegations of 'egregious' violations of the federal Clean Water Act and the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act could be...more
Wednesday, Aug 15, 2018 - 4:00 PM – Senate Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on National Parks Hearings to examine national parks legislation....more