My colleague, Jordan Wimpy, undertook a presentation at the Arkansas Bar association Mid-Year Conference titled:
Stormwater Construction Permit(s): An Overview (“Presentation”)....more
2/7/2025
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The Fall 2024 edition of the publication Arkansas Drinking Water Update (“Update”) summarized Enforcement Orders that were issued for three Arkansas water systems.
The Update is published by the Engineering Section of...more
2/6/2025
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Vorteq Coil Finishers, LLC (“Vorteq”) entered into a January 22nd Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery...more
2/5/2025
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The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Newrays One, LLC (“Newrays”) entered into a December 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation...more
2/4/2025
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (“SpaceX”) entered into a January 15th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean...more
2/3/2025
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The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Oltmans Development, Inc. (“ODI”) entered into a December 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
1/27/2025
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The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) issued a January 17th Proposed Director’s Order and Assessment (“Order”) to Sherwin-Williams Company (“Sherwin-Williams”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
1/24/2025
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The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Natureplex entered into a May 3rd Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Pretreatment Permit. See Order No. 7323 24.
The AO...more
1/20/2025
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Klinger Paint Company, Inc. (“Klinger”) entered into a January 7th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Resource...more
1/20/2025
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Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel issued a news release announcing the arrest and arraignment of Rajinder Singh Minhas alleging:
…multiple felony and misdemeanor charges for allegedly mismanaging and neglecting...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Lexicon, Inc. (“LI”) entered into a November 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a Technical Secretary’s Proposed Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Newly Weds Foods, LLC (“NWF”) addressing an alleged violation of the Tennessee Air...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Waste Recycling (“WR”) entered into an August 29th Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act stormwater...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and James Osborne entered into a September 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of Arkansas...more
The Arkansas and 24 other State Attorney Generals (collectively, “Amici Curiae”) filed on October 28th an Amicus Brief supporting a Petition for a Writ of Certiorari to the United States Supreme Court to address a Clean Water...more
11/8/2024
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The Michigan Attorney General (“AG”) filed a Complaint in the Michigan Circuit Court for the 30th Judicial Circuit against Ox Paperboard WP, LLC (“Ox”) and White Pigeon Mills, LLC (“White Pigeon”) for alleged violations of a...more
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) issued an October 9th Proposed Order and Assessment (“Order”) to RMK LLC. See Case No. FDA24-0044. RMK is stated to be the owner of two underground storage...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Certainteed Gypsum Manufacturing, Inc. (“Certainteed”) entered into an October 14th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
Co-Author Abigail Lindsey The United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit addressed in an October 16th Opinion whether an alleged taking by a city was ripe for judicial review. See Fane Lozman v. City of Riviera...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Honda Development & Manufacturing of America, LLC (“Honda”) entered into a October 9th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Air Permit. See...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Arnette Polymers, LLC (“Arnette”) entered into an August 19th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Missouri hazardous...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and USNR, LLC d/b/a Timber Automation, LLC (“USNR”) entered into a September 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Waste Corporation of Arkansas, LLC (“WC”) entered into a September 11th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Sun Gro Horticulture Processing Inc. (“Sun Gro”) entered into a July 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Devonshire Manor Property Owners Association, Inc. (“Devonshire”) entered into an August 21st Consent Administrative Order...more