The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Chemical Waste Management of the Northwest, Inc. (“CWM”) entered in to a September 25th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the Resource...more
The Court of Appeal of Louisiana (First Circuit) (“Court”) issued a September 23rd opinion addressing a challenge to the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality’s (“LDEQ”) granting of a Verified Reclamation Facility...more
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) Division of Solid Waste Management issued a proposed Director’s Order and Assessment (“Order”) to the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (“UTC”) addressing...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Robbie’s Truck Repair, LTD (“RTR”) entered into a September 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Innospec Active Chemicals, LLC (“IAC”) entered into an August 24th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the North Carolina hazardous waste...more
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) and Moody & Associates, Inc., d/b/a Technical Plating (“Moody”) entered into a Settlement Agreement and Order (“Agreement”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California (“U.S.”) issued an August 5th news release stating that C.G. Roxane LLC (“Roxane”) was sentenced to three years of probation and ordered to pay...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) issued a July 21st Order addressing a Petition by the American Bottom Conservancy (“Conservancy”) which challenged the issuance...more
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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Pinnacle Manufacturing, LLC (“Pinnacle”) entered into a June 8th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of certain sections of the...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Plasman Corp LLC (“PLASMAN”) entered in a May 7th Consent Order addressing alleged violations of certain hazardous waste regulations found in ADEM-Admin. Code...more
I undertook a presentation for the Arkansas Environmental Federation Land and Sustainability Webinars on May 22nd titled:
Solid and Hazardous Waste/Recycling Administrative/Judicial Developments: 2019-2020...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Chemical Waste Management, Inc. (“CWMI”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Alabama Hazardous Waste Management and...more
The United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in a January 9th letter an issue arising out of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) involving placarding.
PHMSA was...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a January 8th Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) guidance document (“Guidance”) titled:
Criteria and Process for Objecting to Requests to Import...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Mahle Engine Components USA, Inc. (“Mahle”) entered into a March 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published an April 8th Federal Register Notice proposing to finalize a rule delisting a one-time amount up to 20,100 cubic yards of Resource Conservation and Recovery...more
The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (“Court”) in a March 31st Order addressed a dispute regarding a state-issued hazardous waste disposal permit. See United States v. N.M. Env’t Dep’t, No. CV 19-46...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a March 23rd Project Notification titled:
Post-Closure at Hazardous Waste Units Closed with Waste in Place (“Notification”)...more
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Ohio (“Court”) addressed in a November 13th Order an issue arising out of a Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (“CERCLA”) or...more
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (“TCEQ”) has issued regulatory guidance regarding the transportation, treatment and disposal of Coronavirus Disease 2019 (“COVID-19”) medical waste....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and AERC Acquisition Corporation dba AERC Recycling Solutions (“AERC”) entered into a February 25th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and KMG-Bernuth, Inc., (“KMG”) entered into a February 10th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of the ADEM Administrative Code that address hazardous...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Sanco, Inc., (“Sanco”) entered into a February 5th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the regulations the State of Georgia has adopted to...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) proposed February 7th a Special Order by Consent (“Order”) for New Flyer of America, Inc. (“New Flyer”) addressing alleged violations related to hazardous waste...more
The United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in a January 2nd interpretive letter a question regarding the application of the Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) to...more