The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) issued a February 2022 report titled:
Best Practices to Ensure State Collaboration in Superfund (“Report”) ...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) released its 2020 Toxics Release Inventory (“TRI”) National Analysis (“Analysis”).
The TRI is a publicly available database that is prepared and published by EPA...more
The United States District Court for the District of Texas (“Court”) addressed in an August 4th Opinion issues arising out of a solid waste storage and recycling facility/shingle pile in Dallas, Texas. See Marsha Jackson v....more
A United States District Court (D. Minnesota) (“Court”) addressed in a July 13th Order issues arising out of a Goodhue County, Minnesota, ordinance addressing mixed municipal solid waste (“MMSW”). See Paul’s Industrial...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Southark Disposals Group, LLC (“Southark”) entered into a May 17th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
I undertook an Arkansas Environmental Federation webinar held by the organization’s Land and Sustainability Committee on May 20th titled:
Solid and Hazardous Waste/Recycling Administrative/Judicial Developments: 2020-2021...more
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The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an April 29th news release outlining a plan to “update the Toxics Release Inventory to advance Environmental Justice.”
EPA states that it will be...more
The 93rd Arkansas General Assembly convened for regular session on January 11th.
Senate Bill 517 (“SB 517”) addresses various aspects of the oversight of Arkansas Regional Solid Waste Management Districts (“RSWMDs”). ...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Western Illinois University (“Western”) entered into a February 11th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Illinois...more
A United States District Court (W.D. Washington) (“Court”) addressed in a January 14th Order a challenge to certain provisions of a solid waste flow control ordinance (“Ordinance”). See Skycorp LTD v. King County, 2021 WL...more
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (“IRSI”) submitted October 2nd comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on the agency’s draft National Recycling Strategy (“Strategy”).
EPA released...more
The Court of Appeals of Minnesota (“Court”) in a December 7th Opinion addressed a zoning issue associated with an industrial waste landfill. See AIM Development (USA), LLC v. City of Sartell, 2020 WL 7134863...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) issued an October 23rd news release titled:
Justice Department Requires Waste Management To Divest Assets In Order To Proceed With Advanced Disposal Services Acquisition...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Mack Armstrong (“Armstrong”) entered into a September 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
United States Senator John Boozman of Arkansas, along with Senator Tom Carper of Delaware and Senator Rob Portman of Ohio, introduced bipartisan legislation that would expand the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, Economic Security...more
The Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (“ASTSWMO”) announced a checklist titled:
Preparing Post-Construction Cleanup Sites for Natural Disasters (“Checklist”)
The Checklist was...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a January 8th Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) guidance document (“Guidance”) titled:
Criteria and Process for Objecting to Requests to Import...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published an April 8th Federal Register Notice proposing to finalize a rule delisting a one-time amount up to 20,100 cubic yards of Resource Conservation and Recovery...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
The United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama (“Court”) in a February 21st Order addressed a dispute involving a waste disposal contract. See WM Mobile Bay Envtl. Ctr., Inc. v. City of Mobile, No. CV...more
The Arkansas Environmental Federation (“AEF”) has announced the postponement of its Annual Spring Seminars.
The AEF sponsors separate annual seminars each Spring addressing the following topics...more
The National Waste & Recycling Association’s (“NWRA”) Healthcare Waste Institute published a March 9th document titled:
Frequently Asked Questions, 2019 Novel Coronavirus (“FAQ”)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and AERC Acquisition Corporation dba AERC Recycling Solutions (“AERC”) entered into a February 25th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of the...more
The Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change of the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Energy and Commerce (“Subcommittee”) held a March 4th hearing titled:
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Reform: Addressing...more
The Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (“ISRI”) issued its 2019 Recycling Industry Yearbook (“Yearbook”).
The 2019 edition is the eighth year that ISRI has published a Yearbook on this topic....more