The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Wynne, Arkansas (“Wynne”), entered into a November 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Crosbys Creek Oil & Gas, LLC (“Crosbys”) entered into a November 5th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit.
The CO states...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued an October 26th news release stating that DiAne Gordon pleaded guilty to fabricating Clean Water Act Discharge Monitoring Reports (“DMRs”).
The individual is...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Grooms Aluminum Processors (“GAP”) entered into a September 9th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit.
The CO provides that...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an October 15th Order granting a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”) for the Oak...more
The Chairman of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, Peter DeFazio (“Chairman”), sent an October 13th letter to the Biden Administration addressing Section 404 Clean Water...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Fountain Hill, Arkansas, (“Fountain Hill”) entered into a September 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and JW Aluminum Company (“JW”) entered into a September 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
A United States District Court (N.D. Ohio) (“Court”) addressed in a September 9th Order an issue involving the Section 404 Clean Water Act wetland permitting program. See Friends Mahoning River v. U.S. Army Corps of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Lepanto, Arkansas (“Lepanto”) entered into a September 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
A United States District Court (D. Colorado) (“Court”) addressed in a September 30th Order an issue arising in a Clean Air Act citizen suit related to a coal mine. See WildEarth Guardians, et al. v. Mountain Coal Company, and...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Paradise Ranch RV Resort (“Paradise”) entered into a September 6th Agreed Order (“AO”) relating to alleged failure to obtain a wastewater permit. See Order No....more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Norboard Mississippi, LLC (“Norboard”) entered into a September 15th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged air permit violations. See Order No. 7150 21.
The Order...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Norboard Mississippi, LLC (“Norboard”) entered into a September 15th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged air permit violations. See Order No. 7150 21.
The Order...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) rescinded a guidance document it had previously issued titled:
Applying the Supreme Court’s County of Maui v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund Decision in the Clean Water Act...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a Proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) on August 9th to Allison Transmission, Inc. d/b/a Walker Die Casting (“Allison”). ...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Select Sands America Corp. (“Select Sands”) entered into a July 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...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 United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“Eighth Circuit”) addressed in an August 20th Opinion whether a federal court had the authority to order injunctive relief for past violations of the Clean Air Act....more
The Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club (collectively “Petitioners”) filed a July 22nd Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Acme Brick Company (“ABC”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) addressed in an August 3rd Opinion a Petition for Review challenging certain conditions of a coal-fired, steam-electric power plant...more
The Clean Air Council and Environmental Integrity Project (collectively “EIP”) filed a July 14th Notice of Appeal (“Appeal”) of an air permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to Robinson Power...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Tuckerman (“Tuckerman”) entered into a June 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit (“Court of Appeals”) addressed an issue arising out of a Clean Water Act (“CWA”) and Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) citizen suit action. See Conservation Law...more
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