[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Mr. Mulch, LLC (“Mr. Mulch”) entered into a July 11th Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Stormwater...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and Wafler Farms, Inc., doing business as Wafler Nursery & Orchards (“WFI”) entered into a July 23rd Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and K&M Excavating, LLC (“K&M”) entered into a May 13th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Arkansas and Missouri Railroad Company (“AMRC”) entered into a February 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and National Park Service (“NPS”) entered into a January 2nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a recent opinion whether a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit should have been obtained by...more
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
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Bunge North America (“BNA”) entered into a November 8th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act State Indirect Discharge (“SID”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Bay, Arkansas (“Bay”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Indorama Ventures Sustainable Solutions LLC (“IVSS”) entered into an October 19th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of a State Indirect Discharge (“SID”)...more
Various State of Colorado entities and agencies and Vail Corporation d/b/a Vail Mountain (“Vail Mountain”) entered into an August 16th Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”) addressing alleged violations of the following: ...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Cast Stone Systems, Inc. (“CSSI”) entered into a July 31st Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Industrial...more
EPA got a lot of press this week for its first ever "enforcement" action relating to the continuing discharge of the forever chemicals known as PFAS into the Ohio River in West Virginia. Many of you know that this part of the...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the State Parks Division of the Arkansas Department of Parks, Heritage, and Tourism (“Parks Division”) entered into a November...more
A United States District Court (W.D. Washington) (“Court”) addressed in an October 31st Order a Clean Water Act citizen suit action seeking an injunction to remedy alleged illegal discharge of pollutants into a lake and its...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and DR Horton Inc. – Birmingham (“DR”) entered into a September 21st Special Order by Consent (“Consent Order”) addressing alleged violations of an NPDES general...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued a September 12th news release stating that DiAne Gordan (“Gordon”) had been sentenced to 36 months in prison for allegedly fabricating discharge monitoring reports...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and LCS Recycling, LLC (“LCS”) entered into an August 9th Settlement addressing alleged violations of water, solid waste, and spill prevention and control (“SPC”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Lake Village, Arkansas (“Lake Village”) entered into an April 26th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
Rule change may have impact on permitting, reporting and enforcement for sites dealing with emergencies. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) has adopted changes to compliance history rules that would...more
Several environmental organizations sent the following document to Rosemont Copper Company (“Rosemont”) on April 14th: 60-Day Notice of Intent to Bring Citizen Suit for Rosemont Copper Company’s Violations of the Clean...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Memphis District) (“Corps”) entered into a January 24th Consent Administrative Order...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Delta Oil Services, Inc. (“Delta”) entered into a February 16th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of Alabama regulations focused on used oil...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Sunbelt Innovative Plastics, LLC (“Sunbelt”) entered into a Settlement Agreement (“Settlement”) addressing alleged violations relating to the discharge of plastic...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and J and J Cars, LLC (“J and J”) entered into an October 18th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of the Mississippi Administrative Code related to...more