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 Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) transmitted a May 8th Clean Air Act Notice of Intent to Sue (“NOI”) to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) over an alleged failure to: …issue or deny the...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company (“Goodyear”) entered into a May 13th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians (collectively, “CBD”) filed a Clean Air Act Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to Arch...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
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Riceland Foods, Inc. (“Riceland”) entered into a November 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and The Bryce Company, LLC (“Bryce”) entered into an October 3rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
The United States District Court (Eastern District Wisconsin) (“Court”) addressed in a July 27th Order a request by the United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) acting on behalf of the United States Environmental...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Ardagh Metal Packaging USA Corp. (“Ardagh”) entered into an April 12th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Order No. 7244...more
The Center for Biological Diversity and Grand Valley Citizens Alliance (collectively, “CBD”) filed a November 23rd Petition to Object (“Petition”) to an initial Title V permit (“Permit”) issued by the Colorado Department of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and SEMCO, LLC (“SEMCO”) entered into an October 27th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to update, strengthen, and expand the standards proposed on November 15, 2021, which require reduced emissions...more
WildEarth Guardians filed a September 26th Petition (“Petition”) requesting that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator object to the initial Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit for the...more
For air emission sources in New Haven County, Middlesex County, and Shelton, Connecticut, the regulatory landscape will change on November 7, 2022. Per a regulation published on October 7, 2022, EPA is reclassifying the...more
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) recently announced that it is conducting another round of aerial inspections of upstream and midstream facilities in the Texas and New Mexico Permian Basin....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Alliance Rubber Company (“Alliance”) entered into a March 17th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently issued a proposed rule under the Clean Act intended to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and air pollutants from crude oil and natural gas operations...more
The first action proposes first-time emission guidelines to reduce methane emissions from almost 1 million existing oil and gas wells, almost 2,000 existing interstate natural gas compressor stations, and over 500 existing...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a September 8th proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Impact Plastics, Inc. (“IPI”) addressing alleged violations of an...more
As discussed in this previous post, EPA recently released two rules changing the volatile organic compound (“VOC”) and methane emissions requirements for new sources in the oil and gas sector, which alter or roll back some of...more
The Sierra Club filed on August 18th in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas a Complaint against Woodville Pellets, LLC (“Woodville”) alleging violations of the Clean Air Act. The Complaint...more
Last week, the EPA announced two significant settlements for violations of the Clean Air Act relating to emissions of volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”) from upstream oil and gas production facilities. These enforcement...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Court”) addressed in a May 18th opinion an appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Mississippi (“USDC”) of a breach of warranty...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a December 21st Federal Register Notice approving a revision to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan which updates the definition of Volatile Organic...more
Federal - Notice of Availability of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Two Updated Chapters in the EPA Air Pollution Control Cost Manual - EPA is making two finalized chapters of the EPA Air Pollution Control...more