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Air Enforcement: Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Proposed Order Addressing Grainger County Rock Crushing Facility

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/1/2025

The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a February 28th Proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Clear Development, LLC (“CD”) alleging violations of an air permit....more

Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality—A Nut Case?

(ACOEL) | American College of Environmental... on 3/26/2025

In Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, the Texas Supreme Court clarified the statutory definition of “Best Available Control Technology”(BACT) under the Texas Clean Air...more

Journey's End? Fifth Circuit Issues Splintered Decision in Important Clean Air Act Citizen Suit Case

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 1/13/2025

The nine judges that finally coalesced over the decision of affirmance voted for two inconsistent judgments and provided no explanation for this result. The judges held that, under Laidlaw, civil penalties which must be...more

Lime Manufacturing Plants/NESHAP: National Lime Association Files Petition for Review before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 9/23/2024

The National Lime Association (“NLA”) filed on September 13th a Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s...more

Supreme Court’s Environmental and Administrative Law Decisions in 2015-2016 Term

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 8/4/2016

This Advisory briefly reports on some of the significant U.S. Supreme Court actions from January through June 2016 related to environmental and administrative law. ...more

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Air Enforcement: Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Proposed Order Addressing Grainger County Rock Crushing Facility

Port Arthur Community Action Network (PACAN) v. Texas Commission on Environmental Quality—A Nut Case?

Journey's End? Fifth Circuit Issues Splintered Decision in Important Clean Air Act Citizen Suit Case

Lime Manufacturing Plants/NESHAP: National Lime Association Files Petition for Review before U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C....

Supreme Court’s Environmental and Administrative Law Decisions in 2015-2016 Term

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