[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
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 Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (“TDEC”) issued a July 13th proposed Director’s Order and Assessment (“Order”) to Kopper Glo Mining, LLC (“Kopper”). See Case No. MGR22-0118. The Order provides that...more
Just before the Thanksgiving holiday EPA issued draft guidance regarding when a discharge of a “pollutant” to groundwater is the “functional equivalent” of a discharge to a Water of the United States requiring a NPDES permit...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Town of Wesson, Mississippi (“Wesson”) entered into a May 5th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant...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 Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Marvell, Arkansas (“Marvel”) entered into a December 31st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) to address alleged...more
The City and County of San Francisco (collectively “San Francisco”) filed a January 13th pleading before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) titled: Petition for...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and PJ Country Store, Inc. (“PJ”) entered into a June 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National Pollution...more
The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (“NACWA”) and other municipalities filed an Amicus Brief in the pending Supreme Court of the United States case styled County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund, et al....more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Lake View, Arkansas, (“Lake View”) entered into a January 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Betty Hawkins Lemley d/b/a J&B Mobile Home Park (“J&B”) entered into a December 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (collectively “EPA”) entered into an October 30th Consent Decree (“Decree”) with Evangeline Enterprises, LLC, (“EE”) to...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the United States Department of the Interior – National Park Service (“NPS”) entered into an August 17th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Mena, Arkansas (“Mena”) entered into a May 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a May 2018 document intended to respond to what it describes as “Frequently Asked Questions” regarding the recently issued Clean Water Act Dental Effluent...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Mountain View, Arkansas (“Mountain View”) entered into an April 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and the Town of Roxie, Mississippi, entered into a May 11th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Turrell, Arkansas, (“Turrell”) entered into an April 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and City of Mountain Pine, Arkansas, (“City”) entered into an April 5th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act...more
The Clean Water Act requires a permit to discharge pollutants through pipes, ditches, and channels from an oyster hatchery, even though the facility would not be subject to the Act’s permitting requirements as a “concentrated...more
Call this one a case of misdirection, but an Appellate Opinion seems to simplify matters. If anything having to do with environmental law can be considered simple....more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Mitchellville, Arkansas (“City”) entered into a December 5th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) alleging violations of the Clean Water Act National...more
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) and the City of Dyersburg, Tennessee (“City”) entered into an October 9th Consent Agreement and Assessment (“CAA”) addressing alleged violations involving...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Waste Water Management, Inc. (“WWMI”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (‘CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollution...more