[WEBINAR] Fairly (or Unfairly?) Traceable: Are Discharges Through Groundwater Subject to the Clean Water Act?
A bill amending the Alabama Solid Wastes and Recyclable Materials Management Act by specifying when local approval of solid waste disposal permit modifications is necessary has passed both houses of the Alabama Legislature...more
The Court of Appeal held that the City of Mount Shasta violated CEQA by approving a wastewater permit for a water bottling plant without making specific findings as to each potentially significant impact identified as...more
The Court of Appeals of Oregon (“Court”) addressed in a January 26th opinion an issue involving the “auto dismantler exemption” (“Exemption”) to the State of Oregon’s solid waste permitting program. See PNW Metal Recycling,...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Wynne, Arkansas (“Wynne”), entered into a November 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Paradise Ranch RV Resort (“Paradise”) entered into a September 6th Agreed Order (“AO”) relating to alleged failure to obtain a wastewater permit. See Order No....more
The new statewide General Waste Discharge Requirements (WDRs) for winery process water (Winery Order) adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board have spread concern across the wine industry. The Winery Order is...more
The United States District Court for the District of New Mexico (“Court”) in a March 31st Order addressed a dispute regarding a state-issued hazardous waste disposal permit. See United States v. N.M. Env’t Dep’t, No. CV 19-46...more
A recent decision by the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (Hawai'i Wildlife Fund v. County of Maui) created a new standard for permitting under the Clean Water Act — one that captures discharges from point sources through...more
In 2013, the D.C. Circuit affirmed EPA’s authority to withdrawal approval of mountaintop mining disposal sites, even after the Army Corps has issued a Section 404 permit. In 2014, the District Court rejected Mingo Logan’s...more