The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Beaver Creek Partners, LLC (“BC”) entered into a November 6th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of a Construction NPDES General Permit. See...more
The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection (DEEP) has been busy reissuing its suite of general permits (GPs) for wastewater and stormwater discharges. In October, DEEP reissued the Commercial Stormwater...more
The City of North Little Rock, Arkansas Engineering Department has released a document titled: STORMWATER BEST MANAGEMENT PRACTICES (“Manual”)....more
Construction sites involving the removal of vegetation expose soil to the elements, which leads to soil being carried with precipitation into nearby waterways. The addition of soil and chemicals from construction sites to...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Tripp Property Clearing (“TPC”) entered into a January 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
MS4 Operators are required to develop stormwater management programs aimed at reducing the discharge of pollutants affecting water quality under the final SPDES General Permit issued by the New York State Department of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and White Oaks Storage LLC (“White Oaks”) entered into a March 3rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Reliable Soil Co., (“Reliable”) entered into a Settlement addressing alleged violations of an LPDES Multi-Sector General Permit. See SA-WE-22-0017. The...more
Worldwide Labeling & Packaging, LLC (“Worldwide”) and the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) entered into a January 27th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
Key Takeaways - • What Is Happening? The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized the 2021 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Multi-Sector General Permit (MSGP) for stormwater discharges...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Down by the Falls, LLC (“DF”) entered into a January 27th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Hedger Operating Company, LLC (“Hedger”) entered into a January 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Moses Plumbing, LLC (“Moses”) entered into a January 11th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Trailboss Trailers, Inc. (“TTI”) entered into a November 13th Agreed Order (“AO”) to address alleged stormwater permitting violations. See Order No. 7085 20. ...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and McCarthy Building Companies, Inc. (“MBCI”) entered into an Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Mississippi Large Stormwater Construction...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and North Little Rock Municipal Airport (“NLR”) entered into a March 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Riggins Commercial Construction, LLC, (“Riggins”) entered into a February 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
California regulates storm water discharges from industrial facilities under the federal Clean Water Act through its Industrial General Storm Water Permit (IGP). A facility obtains coverage by filing notice of its intent to...more
This summer brought typical thunderstorms, but it also brought a shower of new and changed requirements for construction activities as part of the recently renewed regulation for the General VPDES Permit for Discharges of...more
Spared by the Office of Management and Budget from the Trump Administration’s regulatory freeze, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) 2017 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System General Permit for...more
Last week, a federal court dismissed claims brought by three California cities against Monsanto that were aimed at forcing Monsanto to pay for polychlorinated biphenyl (“PCB”) contamination in San Francisco Bay. The...more
The U.S. Supreme Court has blocked implementation of President Obama’s signature plan to address climate change pending a decision by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals on the plan’s legality. The Clean Power Plan is being...more
Developing a stormwater pollution prevention plan (SWPPP) for a construction project can take a lot of time and effort, and the requirements for a small project usually don’t differ from those for a large project. EPA wants...more
U.S. EPA issued a new Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges from Industrial Activities on June 4, 2015, replacing the 2008 general permit, which expired in September 2013 and had been administratively...more
The following post is provided by our guest author, Karen Lutz from TRC. Karen can be reached at klutz trcsolutions.com. What? – If you have an industrial/manufacturing facility in Michigan, and storm water runoff is...more