The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) issued a February 2022 report titled:
Best Practices to Ensure State Collaboration in Superfund (“Report”) ...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Giant Resource Recovery-Attalla, Inc. (“Giant”) entered into a January 25th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of Alabama hazardous waste...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and American Distillation, Inc. (“ADI”) entered into a January 12th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the North Carolina hazardous waste...more
The Superior Court of Connecticut (Judicial District of Hartford) (“Court”) issued a December 27th Memorandum of Decision (“Decision”) addressing the impact of a Chapter 13 bankruptcy filing on the enforcement of a...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and PPG Industries, Inc. (“PPG”) entered into a December 29th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing an alleged violation of the Ohio Hazardous Waste...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Technicolor Home Entertainment Services Southeast LLC (“Technicolor”) entered into a November 24th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and C-P Flexible Packaging (“C-P”) entered into a September 30th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the Pennsylvania regulations addressing...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) responded to a June 23rd petition by the State of New Mexico that requested a listing of per and polyfluorinated substances (“PFAS”) as Resource Conservation and...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Ecotech Enterprises, Inc. (“EEI”) entered into a September 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and KTT, LLC d/b/a Med Rid Medical Waste Services (“KTT”) entered into a September 9th Special Order by Consent (“Order”) addressing alleged violations addressing...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Golden Valley Electric Association, Inc. (“Golden Valley”) entered into a September 2nd Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the federal...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Trilogy MedWaste Southeast, LLC (“Trilogy”) entered into an August 13th proposed Consent Order (“CO”). See Consent Order No. 21-XXX-CMW.
The CO addresses an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Solder Plating, LLC (“SP”), entered into a July 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Chemical Waste Management, Inc., (“CWMI”) entered into a July 12th Consent Order addressing alleged violations of the Alabama hazardous waste regulations. See...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Safety-Kleen Systems, Inc., (“Safety-Kleen”) entered into a June 24th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Illinois...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and American Greetings Corporation (“AGC”) entered into a June 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The United States Department of Justice and the State of Indiana (collectively “DOJ”) entered into a June 3rd Consent Decree (“CD”) with Lone Star Industries, Inc., (“LSI”) addressing alleged Clean Air Act violations. See...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Olin Russellville Cell Technologies LLC (“Olin”) entered into a May 5th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
I undertook an Arkansas Environmental Federation webinar held by the organization’s Land and Sustainability Committee on May 20th titled:
Solid and Hazardous Waste/Recycling Administrative/Judicial Developments: 2020-2021...more
5/27/2021
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Fuchs Lubricants Co. (“Fuchs”) entered into an April 28th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Resource Conservation...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and D.E. Jones, Inc., (“DEJI”) entered into an April 8th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and US Ecology Sulligent, Inc. (“US Ecology”) entered into a March 24th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of provisions of the ADEM Administrative...more
A United States District Court (N.D. California) (“Court”) addressed in an April 22nd Order whether the statute of limitations (“SOL”) barred a Clean Water Act (“CWA”) citizen suit action. See Clarke v. Pacific Gas & Electric...more
The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (“Court”), in a March 26th Opinion addressed issues involving a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) citizen suit action, 42 U.S.C. §...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training publishes an Environmental Case Crimes Bulletin (“Bulletin”) that summarizes publicized investigative activity...more
4/26/2021
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