The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and two states entered into a January 8th Consent Decree (“CD”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California with the following entities: ...more
1/25/2024
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Consent Decrees ,
Department of Environmental Management ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
NPDES ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Storm Water ,
US Army Corps of Engineers ,
Water Pollution
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a recent opinion whether a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit should have been obtained by...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Bradford, Arkansas, (“Bradford”)entered into an October 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Eagle Ridge Utility Operating Company, LLC (“Eagle Ridge”) entered into an October 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Countryside Land & Cattle Co., LLC (“Countryside”) entered into a November 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
The United States Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy (“SBA”) submitted December 21st comments addressing the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) document titled:
Draft Guidance...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a pre-Federal Register Notice for a proposed rule addressing Clean Water Act effluent limit guidelines for the Meat and Poultry Products (“MPP”) industrial...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Nashville, Arkansas, (“Nashville”) entered into October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and 10 other states filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (“Court”) a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) against the...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination...more
The Town of Amherst, Massachusetts (“Amherst”), filed a November 16th Request for Review before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging a Clean Water Act...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is issuing for public comment draft guidance on applying the United States Supreme Court decision in County of Maui vs. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.
EPA had previously...more
11/29/2023
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Discharge of Pollutants ,
Draft Guidance ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Groundwater ,
Hawaii Wildlife Fund v County of Maui ,
Navigable Waters ,
NPDES ,
Permits ,
SCOTUS ,
Water Pollution
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Bay, Arkansas (“Bay”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Environmental Integrity Project (“EIP”) on behalf of the Sierra Club sent a November 14th Notice of Intent to Sue (“NOI”) to Warrick Newco Operations (“Warrick”) alleging violations of the Clean Water Act.
The NOI...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a Draft Revision for Public Comment of the following document:
Nonpoint Source Program and Grants Guidelines for States and Territories (“Draft Document”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Town of Montrose, Arkansas, (“Montrose”) entered into an October 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and D.R. Horton, Inc. (“D.R. Horton”) issued a September 20th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of the Mississippi Code provisions addressing stormwater...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 (“Complaint”) in the United States...more
10/26/2023
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Declaratory Relief ,
Department of Environmental Quality ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Injunctive Relief ,
Memorandum of Understanding ,
Motion to Dismiss ,
NPDES ,
Permits ,
Status Reports ,
Summary Judgment
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an October 2023 document titled:
Frequently Asked Questions: Implementing the 2021 Recommended Clean Water Act Section 304(a)Ambient Water Quality Criteria...more
The State of Alabama and two environmental organizations filed a Complaint in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, against the City of Tuscaloosa alleging violations of the Clean Water Act. See Civil Action No....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Lexa, Arkansas, (“Lexa”) entered into a September 13th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Illinois Attorney General (“AG”) filed a Second Amended Complaint (“Amended Complaint”) on September 28th in the Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois, against 401 North Wabash Venture, LLC, d/b/a Trump International...more
The Massachusetts Port Authority (“Authority”) filed a September 20th document before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) styled:
Petition for Review of...more
The Michigan Attorney General (“AG”) filed a September 11th lawsuit in the Kent County 17th Judicial Circuit against the Gerald R. Ford International Airport Authority (“Airport Authority”) in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The...more
The Sierra Club and a number of other environmental organizations submitted to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on September 26th Petition for Rulemaking (“Petition”) styled:
To Establish...more