News & Analysis as of

Department of Environmental Quality Landfills

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Solid Waste Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Camden...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and the City of Camden, Arkansas entered into an August 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of Arkansas...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Little Rock Municipal Solid...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and City of Little Rock Landfill (“LRL”) entered into an April 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Solid Waste/Wastewater Enforcement: Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal...

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal District (“St. Landry”) entered into a Settlement Agreement (“SA”) addressing alleged violations of a solid waste permit...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill Expansion: Eco-Vista, Llc, and Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental...

As noted in April 19th and April 18th blogs, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals (collectively, “Petitioners’) filed separate requests for an Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review before the Arkansas Pollution...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill, Expansion: Individual Petitioners/Mayor Russell/Tontitown Joint brief in Support of Second Motion for...

As previously noted in April 19th and 18th blogs, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals filed separate Requests for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (collectively “Petitioners”) before the Arkansas...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Motions for Summary Judgment Filed by All Parties

As previously noted in an April 18th and April 19th blog posts, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals filed (two) Requests for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (collectively, “Petitions”) before the...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Administrative Law Judge Addresses Motions to Dismiss Petitioners' Request for Adjudicatory...

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Eco-Vista Files Replies in Support of Motion to Dismiss

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Alternative Daily Cover/Mississippi County Class I Landfill: Request to Use dried Drop Box Steel Sludge

Mississippi County, Arkansas, submitted a March 2nd request to the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) to continue the use of dried Drop Box sludge (“Sludge”) from the...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Tontitown Motion to Strike Motions to Dismiss/Alternative Motion to Extend Time

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Eco-Vista Motions to Dismiss Request for Adjudicatory Hearing/Commission Review

As previously noted in April 18th and 19th blog posts, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals filed separate (two) Requests for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (collectively “Petitions”) before the Arkansas...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/expansion: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Motion to...

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Addresses Motion for Release from...

The Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) addressed in an April 18th Minute Order a request by Eco-Vista Landfill (“Eco-Vista”) pursuant to Rule 8.612(B) a Motion for Relief from Automatic Stay...more

ArentFox Schiff

Environmental Justice Update: New Biden Administration Executive Order Expands EJ Across Federal Government; New Jersey Rolls Out...

ArentFox Schiff on

If you blink, there’s a good chance that you will miss a major development in the environmental justice (EJ) space. Given that Earth Day occurred last week, it’s no surprise we have two major developments to report: ...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Request for Adjudicatory Hearing/commission Review - Motion for Relief From Automatic Stay

As previously noted in April 19th and April 18th blogs, the Mayor of Tontitown and certain individuals have filed separate requests for adjudicatory hearing and Commission review (collectively “Petitions”) before the Arkansas...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Second Request for Adjudicatory Hearing/Commission Review Before Arkansas Commission on...

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Washington County Landfill/Expansion: Request for Adjudicatory Hearing/Commission Review Before Arkansas Commission on Pollution...

Several individuals (collectively “Petitioners”) filed a Request for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (“Petition”) on April 14th before the Arkansas Commission on Pollution Control and Ecology (“Commission”)...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Landfill Disposal Fees/Solid Waste: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and El Dorado...

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Get Rid of It of America Corp. (“Get Rid of It”) entered into a March 14th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

94th Arkansas General Assembly/Landfill Post-Closure Trust Fund: Legislation Introduced Providing Conditions for Landfill...

House Bill 1744 (“HB 1744”) has been introduced which would address landfills that receive money from the Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) from the Landfill Post-Closure...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Appeals Court Upholds Penalty Against Members of LLC that Owned Landfill for Violations of Oregon’s Landfill Closure Law

Beveridge & Diamond PC on

A long-running dispute over a substantial civil penalty issued by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for violations of Oregon’s landfill closure requirements continued with the Oregon Court of Appeals’...more

Beveridge & Diamond PC

Oregon Supreme Court Applies Landfill Closure Requirements Broadly in Kinzua Resources, LLC v. Oregon Department of Environmental...

Beveridge & Diamond PC on

In a case involving a dispute over landfill closure requirements, the Oregon Supreme Court concluded last week that the owners of Kinzua Resources, LLC, a limited liability company that held the permit for and title to the...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Quarterly Newsletter: January 2020

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) has issued a new edition (January 2020) of its quarterly newsletter. DEQ describes the newsletter as providing...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Post-Closure/Landfill: North Carolina Appellate Court Addresses RCRA Compliance Issue

The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“Court”) addressed in a January 7th opinion a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) closure issue. See State ex. rel. Regan v. Wasco, LLC, No. COA19-355, 2020 WL 63913 (N.C....more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Landfill Closure/Property Redevelopment: Oregon Appellate Court Addresses Whether Mulch Storage Agreement Constitutes an...

The Court of Appeals of Oregon (“Court”) issued a December 18th opinion addressing whether the temporary storage of waste mulch generated pursuant to a landfill closure constituted an irrevocable license. See Joseph Mill...more

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,...

Alternative Daily Cover/Landfill: Alabama Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to State Rules

The Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama (“Court”) addressed in an October 11th opinion a challenge to certain Alabama Department Environmental Management (“ADEM”) rules applicable to solid waste landfills. See Smith v. Lefleur,...more

34 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 2

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide