Department of Environmental Quality, Permits, Enforcement Actions

Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Grenada County Lumber Company Enter into Agreed Order

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/19/2025

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Hankins Lumber Company Inc. (“Hankins”) entered into an April 30th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Air Permit. See Order No. 7490 25....more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and White County Compressor...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/17/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Merit Energy Company, LLC (“Merit”) entered into a May 15th Consent Administrative Order (”CAO”) addressing an alleged...more

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/16/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and W & W – Afco Steel LLC (“Afco”) entered into a May 8th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Grant County Wood Utility...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/12/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Stella-Jones Corporation (“SJC”) entered into a May 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Howard County Gypsum...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/5/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Certainteed Gypsum Manufacturing, Inc. (“CGM”) entered into a May 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Fordyce Railway Tank Car...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 5/20/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Transitech Inc. (“TI”) entered into an April 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an...more

Stormwater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Ridgeland Property Owner Enter into Agreed Order

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/22/2025

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and CPJ, LLC (“CPJ”) entered into a March 24th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a stormwater permit. See Order No. 7468 25....more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Patterson...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/21/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Patterson, Arkansas entered into a March 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Blytheville Steel Mill...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/17/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Nucor-Yamato Steel Company (“Nucor”) entered into a March 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more

Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Greenville Building Components Manufacturer Enter into Agreed...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/16/2025

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and USG Interiors, LLC (“USG”) entered into a March 14th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Order No. 7466 25....more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and DeWitt Farm Equipment...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/11/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Industrial Iron Works, Inc. - Adams Fertilizer Equipment (“IIW”) entered into a February 27th Consent Administrative Order...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Springdale Baking Facility...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/27/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Newly Weds Foods, LLC (“NWF”) entered into a March 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing and alleged violation...more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and U.S. Army Corps of...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/14/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) entered into a January 23rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Air Curtain Incinerator...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/7/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Abide Farms, LLC (“Abide”) entered into a February 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of...more

Stormwater Construction Permit(s)/An Overview: Jordan Wimpy (Mitchell Williams) Arkansas Bar Association Mid-Year Presentation

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/7/2025

My colleague, Jordan Wimpy, undertook a presentation at the Arkansas Bar association Mid-Year Conference titled: Stormwater Construction Permit(s): An Overview (“Presentation”)....more

Stormwater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Damascus...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/4/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Newrays One, LLC (“Newrays”) entered into a December 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation...more

Stormwater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Saline County...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 1/27/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Oltmans Development, Inc. (“ODI”) entered into a December 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

Pretreatment/Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Olive Branch Pharmaceutical Manufacturing...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 1/20/2025

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Natureplex entered into a May 3rd Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Pretreatment Permit. See Order No. 7323 24. The AO...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Pine Bluff Vermiculite...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 9/24/2024

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Sun Gro Horticulture Processing Inc. (“Sun Gro”) entered into a July 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more

Supplemental Environmental Project/Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission of Environmental Quality and Burnsville Silicon...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 9/5/2024

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Mississippi Silicon LLC (“MS”) entered into an August 27th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of an Air Permit. See Order No. 7349 24....more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Greenbriar Rock...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/23/2024

Part III Section D, Condition 10 of the RGI NPDES permit requires the submission of a complete permit renewal application at least 180 days prior to the expiration date of the permit if the activity regulated by the permit is...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Bentonville Sign...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/11/2024

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and United Industries, Inc. (“United”) entered into a May 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation...more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Green County College...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/13/2024

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality ("DEQ") and Crowleys Ridge College ("Crowleys Ridge") entered into a February 20th Consent Administrative Order ("CAO") addressing an...more

Industrial Stormwater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Benton...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/6/2024

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and TD Granite & Marble (“TD”) entered into a February 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Morrilton...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/7/2024

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Morrilton, Arkansas, (“Morrilton”) entered into a December 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more

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