Many currently unregulated commercial, industrial, and institutional properties in Eastern Massachusetts may soon require stormwater upgrades in order to meet the new rigorous Clean Water Act (CWA) stormwater discharge...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Berg Brothers Recycling, Inc. (“Berg Brothers”) entered into a January 31st Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act stormwater...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
North Carolina Proposes New Guidance for Vapor Intrusion Assessment and Mitigation - The North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has drafted new and revised guidance documents for the assessment and...more
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced on September 14 that it will require new permit coverage for previously unregulated stormwater discharges in Massachusetts. Specifically, EPA intends to issue general...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Concrete Pipe and Precast, LLC (“CPP”) entered into a September 2nd Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations under Clean Water Act stormwater...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the 2021 Multi-Sector General Permit (“MSGP”) for industrial stormwater discharges on January 15, 2021. The 2021 MSGP became effective on March 1, 2021...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Americold Logistics, LLC – Lynden (“ALLL”) entered into a March 9th Consent Agreement (“CA”) to address alleged violations of a Clean Water Act Stormwater...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Wall Street Development Corporation (“Wall Street”) entered into a November 27th Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) to address alleged violations of certain...more
A United States District Court (Central District of California) (“Court”) addressed in an August 9th opinion an issue involving the application of the Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (“PDOT”) entered into an August 29th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of certain...more
Last week, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California gave environmental groups a significant win in their bid to force EPA to regulate new sources of stormwater discharges under the Clean Water Act...more
Region 9 of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a May 17th report titled: Evolution of Stormwater Permitting and Program Implementation Approaches – Workshop Report Recommendations for Program...more
The past several months have witnessed multiple attempts by environmental groups bring currently unregulated entities that discharge stormwater into the Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollution Discharge Elimination System...more
Those living in communities subject to North Carolina Stormwater Permits or local stormwater management easement agreements are increasingly alarmed as rainy weather, even without a named storm, causes property to saturate...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Hallman Foundry, LLC and A. Stucki Company (collectively “Hallman”) entered into a September 5th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
Green infrastructure refers to, among other things, the utilization of sustainable forestry and agriculture as elements of a cost-effective compliance strategy for meeting the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on Nov. 17, 2016, a Notice of Intent to Reissue the District of Columbia's municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) permit. The notice triggers a 45-day public...more
The battle over phosphorous in the Charles River and its resultant toxic algae blooms is heating up again, with EPA finalizing its MS4 permit targeting municipalities and their stormwater runoff into the river and...more
At least since the Standells’ Dirty Water in 1966, cleaning up the Charles River has been on the mind of Bostonians (and Cantabrigians and those farther upriver). Notwithstanding significant recent progress, there remains...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
In February, we noted that the Conservation Law Foundation and the Charles River Watershed Association had threatened to sue EPA for failing to require that “commercial, industrial, institutional, and high density residential...more
There are many lessons that one could take from the outcome of the seven year (and counting) litigation involving environmental groups and the operators of the Los Angeles County stormwater system. Certainly one lesson is to...more