The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi, Inc. (“Toyota”) entered into an August 16th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Title V Operating...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a June 28th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Jack Daniel Distillery, LEM (“Jack Daniel”) for alleged violations of an air...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality ("DEQ") and Flowers Baking Co. of Batesville, LLC ("Flowers") entered into a February 14th Consent Administrative Order ("CAO") addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Packaging Specialties, Inc. (“PSI”) entered into a January 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
On July 21, 2023, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a long-awaited final rule that will make it difficult for sources to continue to rely on an “emergency” to avoid liability for permit violations under...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company (“KTCC”) entered into a May 31st Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit....more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Calgon Carbon Corporation (“Calgon”) entered into an April 12th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Order No. 7242 23. ...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a February 15th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Environmental Trust Company d/b/a Meadow Branch Landfill (“ETC”) addressing...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ’) and Moore’s Dozer Service, LLC (“Moore’s”) entered into an August 23rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Tronox, LLC (“Tronox”) entered into a July 19th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Order No. 7203 22....more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP (“Gulf South”) entered into a Settlement to address alleged air permit violations. See Settlement Tracking No. SA-AE-21-0032....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Lehigh Cement Company LLC (“Lehigh”) entered into a November 17th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Air Act Title V Permit. See...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on behalf of the United States Environmental Protection Agency and the State of Michigan entered into a September 9th Consent Decree (“CD”) with Arbor Hills Energy, LLC (“AHE”)...more
Last year, after a string of defeats for EPA in its NSR enforcement initiative, I suggested that the initiative was in trouble, but that EPA was probably not yet ready to concede defeat. After the latest blow, earlier this...more