The Region 6 Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) sent a March 27th letter to Stacie Wassell, Associate Director for the Office of Water Quality at the Arkansas Department of Energy and...more
My colleague, Jordan Wimpy, undertook a presentation at the Arkansas Bar association Mid-Year Conference titled: Stormwater Construction Permit(s): An Overview (“Presentation”)....more
House Bill 1277 has been filed which proposes two revisions to the Arkansas Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund. The Bill is sponsored by Representative Zack Gramlich of Fort Smith and Senator Justin Boyd of Fort Smith....more
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) issued on November 15th a Proposed Director’s Order and Assessment (“OA”) to Tradebe Treatment and Recycling of Tennessee, LLC (“TTRT”) addressing alleged...more
In 2020, President-elect Donald Trump promised to ensure that “America’s most critical infrastructure projects” would not be “tied up and bogged down by an outrageously slow and burdensome federal approval process.” Much of...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued on December 5th a press release publishing a report titled: Enforcement and Compliance Annual Results for Fiscal Year 2024 (“Report”)....more
The Sierra Club and three other environmental organizations filed the following document before the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on December 3rd: Petition to Object to the Title V Operating...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) published a public notice on December 9th stating that the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“APC&EC”) initiated...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Hood Industries, Inc. (“Hood”) entered into a November 12th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc. (“Hoover”) entered into a November 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (“Court”) addressed in an August 15th Opinion a Clean Water Act jurisdictional question. See United States v. Chameleon, LLC, No. 3:23-CV-763–HEH, 2024 WL...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Hecla Limited (“HL”) entered into a Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System...more
The Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) has issued a document titled: Decision Trees for PFAS – Mitigation Selection in Drinking Water (“DTP”)....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) submitted August 26th comments addressing the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) partial disapproval of...more
The Southern Environmental Law Center (“SELC”) filed the following before the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”): Petition to Withdraw North Carolina’s National Pollutant Discharge...more
The Environmental Integrity Project, Texas Environmental, Justice Advocacy Services, Caring for Pasadena Communities, and Sierra Club (collectively, “EIP”) submitted an August 19th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”)...more
Five non-profit organizations filed a Clean Air Act Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to the AdvanSix Resins and Chemicals LLC (“AdvanSix”)...more
The Association for State and Territorial Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) published a position paper titled: DATA QUALITY ISSUES WITHIN THE HAZARDOUS WASTE e-MANIFEST SYSTEM (“Position Paper). The Position Paper...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) is circulating a document (“Memorandum”) from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Enforcement and...more
The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) has adopted the following: Petition to Initiate Rulemaking to Approve Amendments to Regulation 6: Regulations for State Administration of the National...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) submitted on July 1st to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) a document titled: Arkansas Ambient Air...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Mr. Graham C. Coats entered into a May 15th Agreed Consent Order (“ACO”) addressing the alleged abandonment of waste tires. The ACO states that an...more
Co-Author Jordan Wimpy The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) transmitted a letter to the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) addressing the State’s...more
The United States, Arkansas Game and Fish Commission (“AGFC”), and Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) entered into a Consent Decree with ExxonMobil Pipeline Company, LLC...more
As one of the nation’s largest hubs of industrial production, Louisiana is no stranger to federal emissions regulations. Recently, the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (LDEQ) faced off against the Sierra Club...more