The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Holcim Inc. (“Holcim”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit.
The CO provides that Holcim operates a cement...more
The American Forest & Paper Association (“AFPA”) announced its 2019 Better Practices, Better Planet 2020 Sustainability Awards on November 8th....more
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) (“Corps”) issued a November 13th Public Notice regarding a proposal by WYCAR Land Company, LLC, to establish a wetland mitigation bank (“Bank”). See Application...more
The Sierra Club and other organizations filed a November 1st Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging a Clean Water Act...more
The Arkansas Court of Appeals (“Court”) addressed in an October 30th opinion a dispute between the Benton County Regional Solid Waste Management District (“Benton District”) and the Boston Mountain Regional Solid Waste...more
The Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Bethel Heights, Arkansas (“Bethel Heights”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) Issued on November 6th a press release announcing the sentencing of Electro- Plating Services Inc (“EPS”) and its owner Gary Sayers for alleged violations of the Resources...more
The Connecticut Interagency PFAS Task Force (“Task Force”) issued a November 1st document addressing PFAS titled:
PFAS Action Plan (“Plan”) -
The Task Force was led by the Connecticut Department of Health and...more
A United States District Court (Rhode Island) (“Court”) addressed in a November 6th Order a procedural motion associated with a dispute regarding parties who had entered into a series of agreements to develop renewable energy...more
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The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“TAPCB”) issued an October 24th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to PSC Metals, LLC (“PSC”). See Division of Air Pollution Case No....more
The United States Court of Federal Claims (“Court”) addressed in an October 31st opinion a contractor’s request for equitable adjustment related to construction of a runway for the United States Navy (“Navy”). See Coffman...more
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Request for Equitable Adjustment ,
Soil ,
U.S. Navy ,
Waste Disposal
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (Little Rock District) (“Corps”) issued a November 6th Public Notice (“Notice”) regarding a Section 404 Clean Water Act application by Schaefers Brothers Farm.
The application...more
Georgetown University Law Professor Lisa Heinzerling discusses the recent oral argument in County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund in a November 7th SCOTUSblog post.
The United States Supreme Court had previously...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Campbell & Mance Resources, LLC (“CMR”) entered into a Consent Order addressing alleged violations of a National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Potomac Supply Company, LLC (“Potomac”) entered into an October 30th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of Resource Conservation and Recovery...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Court”) addressed in an October 30th opinion issues associated with a class-action lawsuit filed against a landfill. See Jing Gao, et al. v. Blue Ridge Landfill TX,...more
The Greater Lawrence Sanitary District (“District”) filed before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board an October 25th document titled:
Petition for Review of Greater...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment, Division of Environmental Quality, (“DEQ”) and Unilin North America, LLC, (“UNA”) entered into a September 27th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) to address alleged...more
The Arkansas Water Resource Center (“AWRC”) announced on October 22nd in its publication Water Currents it will be funding four water research projects in 2020.
The projects to be funded will address harmful algal blooms...more
The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) published a presentation titled:
Optimizing for the Post Construction Phase of Superfund Sites (“Presentation”)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Newport Utilities (“Newport”) entered into an October 21st Complaint and Consent Agreement/Final Order (“Agreement”) addressing alleged violations of Section...more
Ten states and the District of Columbia Democratic Attorney Generals sent an October 28th letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”) regarding what they described as an opportunity for the offices:
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The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment and (“ADEE”), Office of Energy, announced it is seeking participants for an Energy Code Stakeholder Workgroup (“Workgroup”).
ADEE states that the Workgroup will collaborate...more
The Maryland Department of the Environment (“MDE”) and Exelon Generation Company, LLC (“Exelon”) entered into a October 29th settlement agreement (“ Settlement Agreement”) related to litigation involving a Section 401 Clean...more
The Carroll County Solid Waste Authority (“Authority”) previously submitted a Petition to the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) to be designated the Carroll County Solid Waste District.
The...more