Pollution Control, Corrective Actions

Underground Storage Tanks/Rate Establishment Guide for State Financial Assurance Funds: ASTSWMO Report

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/28/2024

The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) issued on August 24, Part One of a document titled: Rate Establishment Guide for State Financial Assurance Funds (“Guide”)....more

Polk County, Fuel Station/Arkansas Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund: Request for Adjudicatory Hearing and Arkansas Pollution...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/27/2023

Mena Short Stop, LLC (“Mena Short Stop”) filed a pleading before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) addressing an issue arising under the Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division...more

94th Arkansas General Assembly/Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund: Senate/House of Representatives Enact Legislation Increasing...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/24/2023

The Arkansas State Senate and House of Representatives have passed legislation (HB1520) which would raise the limit for payment for corrective action per occurrence pursuant to the Arkansas Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund...more

Landfill/Solid Waste Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and City of Morrilton Enter into Consent...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/22/2018

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Morrilton (“Morrilton”) entered into a July 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressed alleged violations of Arkansas Pollution Control and...more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and Faulkner County, Arkansas Wastewater Treatment Facility...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 9/28/2017

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

EPA’s New Refinery Rule—Next Generation Compliance in Action

McDermott Will & Emery on 10/20/2015

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a new air pollution rule in September that illustrates how EPA is implementing its next generation compliance ideas. The rule governs hazardous air emissions from...more