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
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
Senate Bill 84 has been introduced by Senator Blake Johnson of Corning and Representative DeAnn Vaught of Horatio prohibiting moratoriums in watersheds and other bodies of water....more
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
On Friday, January 3, 2025, the Montana Supreme Court issued a decision in MEIC v. DEQ (Laurel Generating Station), its second major decision on the Montana Environmental Policy Act (MEPA) in the last few weeks that affects...more
A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit landed an unexpected blow on the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) on November 12, ruling that CEQ lacked authority to promulgate its umbrella...more
Both the North and South Carolina legislatures have recently adopted statutes affecting environmental issues in their respective states. This update highlights the most significant developments in North and South Carolina....more
Three individuals and the Louisiana Bucket Brigade and Inclusive Louisiana (collectively “LBB”) filed a December 12th Petition to Object (“Petition”) to a Clean Air Act Title V permit issued by the Louisiana Department of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Delek Logistics Operating, LLC, (“Delek”) entered into a September 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
As the objectives gain traction, they are meeting state resistance in court. The US Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) strategic plan for 2022–26, released in March 2022, added a new foundational principle to the...more
Three Requests for Hearing and Adjudicatory Review (“Requests”) have been filed before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“APC&EC”) challenging a nonmunicipal domestic wastewater treatment facility discharge...more
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
Siting and permitting renewable energy projects in Virginia have become increasingly challenging as federal and state environmental laws, regulations and guidance have evolved in recent years. In particular, HB 206...more
As noted in a February 20th post several Requests for Hearings were filed before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) addressing an application seeking to modify a permit for an open-cut mining...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Producers Rice Mill, Inc. (“Producers”) entered into a July 6th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Order No. 7201 22. ...more
Mike Rolband was appointed Director of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality in January 2022. Recently, Channing Martin, a partner in the Environment and Natural Resources Group at Williams Mullen, had the...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Quality Rock (“Quality”) entered into a January 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an...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 Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board (Air Board) took its first measurable step toward a change in air permitting by creating a Subcommittee on Public Participation Processes (the Subcommittee) on June 21, 2019. The...more
The Office of Air Quality (“OAQ”) of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Air Quality issued a news release announcing a new assistance program (“Program”) for facilities subject to permitting for...more
In November, Democrats won control of the House of Delegates and kept control over the Commonwealth’s Senate. Now, Democrats control both the Executive and Legislative branches of government in the Commonwealth of Virginia....more
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VDEQ) is seeking public comment on whether it should amend the current state regulations governing permits by rule for small solar projects....more
Most companies know that the environmental impacts of their operations are regulated by the federal government (primarily the US Environmental Protection Agency) and various state governments (in Oregon, primarily the Oregon...more