The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Gates Corporation (“Gates”) entered into a June 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an...more
Three Requests for Hearing and Adjudicatory Review (“Requests”) have been filed before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“APC&EC”) challenging a nonmunicipal domestic wastewater treatment facility discharge...more
The Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project (collectively, “Sierra Club”) submitted a June 9th Clean Air Act Title V objection styled:
Petition Requesting that the Administrator Object to the Minor Permit...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) entered into a June 8th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) with Maverick Tube Corporation (“MTC”) addressing an alleged violation...more
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (St. Paul District) (“Corps”) issued a June 6th decision that revokes a previously suspended Section 404 Clean Water Act Permit for the NewRange Copper Nickel Company (“NewRange”). ...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and AHF, LLC, d/b/a AHF Products (“AHF”) entered into a May 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
As previously noted in April 18th and April 19th blog posts, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals filed separate (two) Requests for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (collectively “Petition”) before the...more
As previously noted in April 18th and April 19th blog posts, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals filed separate (two) Requests for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (collectively, “Petitions”) before the...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator issued a March 14th Order denying a Petition for Objection to Permit (“Order”) for a Waelz Sustainable Products, LLC, (“Waelz”) production facility in...more
Tontitown Mayor Angie Russell and the City of Tontitown filed a Request for Hearing and Adjudicatory Review (“Request”) on April 17th before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) challenging the...more
The United States District Court of Massachusetts (“Court”) addressed in a February 17th Memorandum and Order (“Memorandum”) an issue arising out of a Clean Water Act citizen suit action. See Conservation Law Foundation,...more
3/7/2023
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As noted in a February 20th post several Requests for Hearings were filed before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) addressing an application seeking to modify a permit for an open-cut mining...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
2/27/2023
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Senator Irvin introduced Senate Bill 288 which would make certain revisions to sections of the Arkansas statute addressing environmental licensing and permitting fees.
The legislation also amends the statutory provision...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and City of Booneville, Mississippi, (“Booneville”) entered into a February 7th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Resolute El Dorado, Inc. (“Resolute”), entered into a January 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and City of Decatur-Morgan County Sanitary Landfill (“Decatur”) entered into a January 27th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of the Alabama...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Kinder Morgan Liquids Terminals LLC (“Kinder Morgan”) entered into a Settlement to address alleged air permit violations. See SA-AE-22-073.
The Settlement...more
Representatives Richard McGrew and Lanny Fite filed House Bill 1015 which would amend Ark. Code Ann. § 8-4-203(b)(1)(C).
The above-cited Arkansas Code provision exemptions for certain entities related to National...more
Five environmental organizations filed a Petition (“Petition”) requesting that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator object to the issuance of Title V Renewal Permits (“Permits”) for the...more
The Jefferson County, Alabama, Board of Health (“Health Department”) and Bluestone Coke, LLC, (“Bluestone”) entered into a December 9th Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See Case No.:...more
A coalition of environmental organizations sent a December 15th letter to the Biden Administration containing recommendations titled:
Principles for Accelerating Clean Energy Deployment Through a Transmission Buildout in...more
A Colorado District Court (“Court”) (Gunnison County) Judge addressed motions filed by Wildearth Guardians and other environmental organizations alleging a violation of the Colorado Air Quality Control Act and C.R.S....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Nucor Corporation (“Nucor”) entered into a November 28th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”). See LIS No. 22-114.
The CAO...more
The Appeals Court of Massachusetts (‘Appellate Court”) addressed in a December 8th Memorandum and Order (“Memorandum”) a judicial challenge to a Town of Ware, Massachusetts, (“Ware”) bylaw requiring a special permit for...more