[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
A United States District Court (W.D. Texas, “Court”) addressed in a June 11th Decision issues arising out of a Clean Water Act citizen suit enforcement action. See Ragsdale v. JLM Construction Services, Inc. 2024 WL 2933009. ...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Greenbrier (“Greenbrier”) entered into an April 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
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
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
The Clean Air Council and Environmental Integrity Project (collectively, “CAC”) sent a Clean Air Act Notice of Intent to Sue (“NOI”) on February 2nd to the Shell Oil Company addressing its Shell Polymers Monaca Site...more
My law firm colleague, Allan Gates, drafted an October 24th post in the American College of Environmental Lawyers (“ACOEL”) blog titled: Will EPA Ignore a Flagrant Violation of the Clean Water Act?...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Imboden, Arkansas, (“Imboden”) entered into a May 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Clanton Transport LLC (“Clanton”) entered into a June 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Albermarle Corporation-South Plant (“Albermarle”) entered into a March 8th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training publishes an Environmental Case Crimes Bulletin (“Bulletin”) that summarizes publicized investigative activity...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and MRC-FG, LLC (“MRC”) entered into a November 15th Consent Order (“CO”) to address violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System...more
In a significant environmental crime enforcement action, the Justice Department resolved criminal charges under the Clean Water Act against Summit Midstream Partners LLC, a North Dakota pipeline company that discharged 29...more
The United States Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) issued a July 2021 report titled: Clean Water Act – EPA Needs to Better Assess and Disclose Quality of Compliance and Enforcement Data (“Report”) - See...more
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Illinois (“Court”) addressed issues arising in a Clean Water Act (“CWA”) enforcement action in which the United States is alleging discharges of pollutants into...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and ISP Chemicals, LLC, (“ISP”) entered into an April 18th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and USS Real Estate (“USS”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of an NPDES General Permit (Stormwater)(“Permit”). The CO provides...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism – State Parks Division (“Parks Division”) entered into a February 24th...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Globe Metallurgical, Inc. (“GMI”), entered into a December 20th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act...more
On January 15, 2021, the US Environmental Protection Agency (the EPA) announced that it approved an application from the State of Texas to administer the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) program for...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a January 14th news release stating that Robert J. Massey of Brighton, Michigan pleaded guilty before a United States District Court in the Eastern District of Michigan...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Dermott (“Dermott”) entered into an October 14th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The United States Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania issued a December 1st news release stating that a copper-processing company had been charged with three felony counts alleging violations of the...more
On July 14, 2020, the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) issued a public notice regarding Shire Human Genetic Therapies' Cambridge facility's pollutant discharges to the Alewife Brook, along with a...more