The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (“TDEC”) and Stage Road Properties, Inc. (“Stage Road”) entered into a May 9th Settlement Agreement and Order (“Settlement Agreement”) addressing: Alleged...more
The Tennessee Department of Environment and Conversation and BFI Waste Services, LLC (“BFI”) entered into a December 11th Settlement Agreement and Order (“Settlement”) addressing alleged violations of the Tennessee...more
The Arkansas Petroleum Storage Tank Trust Fund (“Trust Fund”) is a state statutory mechanism has been used by both underground and aboveground storage tank owners and operators for over 30 years to address petroleum leaks and...more
Ranking members from both the United States House of Representatives Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure and Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment prepared an analysis titled: Murky Water: Navigating...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Colt Energy, Inc. (“CEI”) entered into a May 22nd Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing the federal regulations found at 40 CFR Part 112 setting...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Meenan Oil Company (“MOC”) entered into a March 29th Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Oil Pollution...more
United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland (District of North Dakota) issued an April 12th Order granting plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction (“Order”) addressing a challenge to a final rule issued by the United...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and American GreenFuels, LLC (“AGF”) entered into a February 23rd Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing addressed violations of the Clean Water Act Oil...more
United States District Judge (Southern District of Texas) Jeffrey Vincent Brown (“Court”) issued a March 19th Memorandum Opinion and Order Granting Preliminary Injunction (“Order”) addressing a challenge to a final rule...more
No industrial company wants to find itself on the morning news tied to a chemical spill or train derailment. Events like those can transform even the most highly regarded company into a movie villain and give rise to...more
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of Land and Emergency Management (OLEM) oversees policy and guidance for the EPA’s hazard response and waste programs. In October 2022, OLEM released its Environmental Justice...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Cedar Marine Terminals, LP (“CMT”) entered into an October 22nd Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of Clean Water Act Spill...more
On October 21, 2022, the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (“BOEM”) published a Final Sale Notice (“FSN”) for commercial leasing for wind power on California’s Outer Continental Shelf (“OCS”). Specifically, the FSN...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Colpitt Brothers Operating Company (“Colpitt”) entered into a May 25th Expedited Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Settlement Agreement (“Agreement”)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Gary Davis Oil, LLC, (“GDO”) entered into an Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Spill Prevention, Control...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) issued an August 20th Proposed Administrative Order (“AO”) to Pine Ridge Transportation, LLC (“Pine Ridge”). See Order No. 20-XXX-HW. The AO states that Pine...more
The United States Supreme Court (“SCourt”) issued an April 23rd decision in County of Maui, Hawaii v. Hawaii Wildlife Fund, et al. See No. 18-260. The case involves whether, and to what extent, a discharge of pollutants...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Continental Paving, Inc. (“Continental”) entered into a June 7 Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Spill...more
The 2019-2020 California Legislative Session has officially reached its first deadline. February 22, 2019 marked the deadline by which bills could be introduced for the first half of the Session. Lawmakers will begin Spring...more
The Region 6 Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Redrock Energy, Inc. (“REI”) entered into a Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CA”) addressing an alleged violation of Section 311 of the...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Super Salvage, Inc. (“SSI”) entered into a November 3rd Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of certain Clean Water Act stormwater regulations....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Kroger Limited Partnership II d/b/a Winchester Farms Dairy (“Winchester”) entered into an August 14th Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in June 25th Federal Register notice states that it will establish no additional regulatory requirements under the Clean Water Act 311(j)(1)(C) for hazardous...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency and United States Corps of Engineers (collectively “EPA”) finalized a rule that would add an applicability date to the Obama Administration era revised definition of the Clean...more
The Foreign Spill Protection Act of 2017 amends the Oil Pollution Act and Clean Water Act to hold foreign-based offshore facilities liable for spills entering U.S. waters - New law establishes oil spill liability in the...more