The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Hecla Limited (“HL”) entered into a Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Strong, Arkansas entered into a July 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
The United Stated Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) transmitted a September 9th letter to the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources (“Vermont”) addressing a Joint Petition from:
Conservation Law Foundation....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) entered into a September 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
10/14/2024
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Clean Water Act ,
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) ,
Department of Environmental Quality ,
Enforcement ,
Environmental Violations ,
NPDES ,
Pollution Control ,
US Army Corps of Engineers ,
Wastewater
The United States Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit (“9th Circuit”) addressed in an October 2nd Memorandum an appeal of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) denial of a Petition for Rulemaking under...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Searcy Board of Public Utilities (“Searcy”) entered into an August 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Lonoke, Arkansas entered into a July 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing violations of a Clean...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Bradley, Arkansas entered into an August 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
A Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois (“Court”) Judge addressed in a September 9th Order issues arising out of a Second Amended Complaint (“Complaint”) filed by the Illinois Attorney General (“AG”) filed against 401 Wabash...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Lockesburg, Arkansas entered in an August 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
EarthJustice and other environmental/community organizations have filed a joint Amici Curai Brief in the United States Supreme Court styled:
City and County of San Francisco v. EPA (“Brief”).
See Docket No. 23-753....more
The Northwest Environmental Advocates (“NWEA”) filed a September 7th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board challenging a Clean Water Act...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Tokai Carbon GE LLE (“Tokai”) entered into an August 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Al’s Truck Stop of Malvern, Inc. (“Al’s”) entered into an April 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Southern Environmental Law Center (“SELC”) filed the following before the Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”):
Petition to Withdraw North Carolina’s National Pollutant Discharge...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) entered into a February 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) with the City of Fort Smith, Arkansas addressing alleged...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Mr. Mulch, LLC (“Mr. Mulch”) entered into a July 11th Expedited Settlement Agreement (“ESA”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Stormwater...more
Various municipalities and public wastewater and stormwater utilities have filed a joint Amici Curiae brief in the United States Supreme Court Case styled:
City and County of San Francisco v EPA...more
8/20/2024
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Contamination ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
NPDES ,
Nuisance ,
Petition for Writ of Certiorari ,
Public Utility ,
SCOTUS ,
Storm Water ,
Wastewater ,
Water Pollution ,
Water Quality
The Coosa River Basin Initiative (“Initiative”) and City of Calhoun, Georgia (“Calhoun”) entered into a Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act. See Civil Action No....more
8/15/2024
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Citizen Suits ,
Clean Water Act ,
Consent Decrees ,
Enforcement ,
NPDES ,
PFAS ,
Pollution Control ,
Waste Treatment Facilities ,
Wastewater ,
Water Pollution
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Faulkner County POID (“FC”) entered into a May 15 Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing violations of a Clean Water...more
The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) has adopted the following:
Petition to Initiate Rulemaking to Approve Amendments to Regulation 6: Regulations for State Administration of the National...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has issued a July 2024 document titled:
National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Whole Effluent Toxicity Permit Writer’s Manual (“Manual”)....more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Twin Rivers Foods, Inc. (“Twin Rivers”) entered into a July 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
7/30/2024
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Air Pollution ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Clean Water Act ,
Department of Energy and Environmental Protection ,
Department of Environmental Quality ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Environmental Violations ,
NPDES ,
Pollution Control ,
Storm Water
Environment California (“EC”) filed a July 23rd United States District Court (Central District of California) Clean Water Act citizen suit action against the Port of Los Angeles (“Port”) for alleged violations. See case No....more
Part III Section D, Condition 10 of the RGI NPDES permit requires the submission of a complete permit renewal application at least 180 days prior to the expiration date of the permit if the activity regulated by the permit is...more