The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Lincoln County Detention Center (“Center”) entered into a January 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Morrilton, Arkansas, (“Morrilton”) entered into a December 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Court of Appeals of South Carolina (“Court”) addressed in a January 3rd opinion an insurance coverage issue associated with a claim related to polychlorinated biphenyls (“PCBs”) deposited by a third party into a...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and the City of Gosnell, Arkansas (“Gosnell”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) to address an alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Denali Water Solutions, LLC (“Denali”) entered into a January 2nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a recent opinion whether a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit should have been obtained by...more
Three federal agencies announced the joint production and release of a document titled:
Incident Response Guide – Water and Wastewater Sector (January 2024) (“Guide”)...more
1/23/2024
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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
FBI ,
Governance Standards ,
Homeland Security Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) ,
Incident Response Plans ,
Infrastructure ,
Public Utility ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Wastewater ,
Water
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Eagle Ridge Utility Operating Company, LLC (“Eagle Ridge”) entered into an October 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Nashville, Arkansas, (“Nashville”) entered into October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal District (“St. Landry”) entered into a Settlement Agreement (“SA”) addressing alleged violations of a solid waste permit...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Bunge North America (“BNA”) entered into a November 8th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act State Indirect Discharge (“SID”)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued on November 15th a document titled:
The EPA’s Fiscal Year 2024 Top Management Challenges (“Report’)
See Report No....more
11/30/2023
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Chemicals ,
Climate Change ,
Compliance ,
Environmental Justice ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Ethics ,
Grants ,
OIG ,
Waste Disposal ,
Wastewater ,
Water
The Town of Amherst, Massachusetts (“Amherst”), filed a November 16th Request for Review before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging a Clean Water Act...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Bay, Arkansas (“Bay”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Town of Montrose, Arkansas, (“Montrose”) entered into an October 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The State of Alabama and two environmental organizations filed a Complaint in the Circuit Court of Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, against the City of Tuscaloosa alleging violations of the Clean Water Act. See Civil Action No....more
Three Requests for Hearing and Adjudicatory Review (“Requests”) were filed before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“APC&EC”) challenging a nonmunicipal domestic wastewater treatment facility discharge...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Lexa, Arkansas, (“Lexa”) entered into a September 13th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and Lonoke County Property Owners’ Multipurpose Improvement District No. 12 (“MID”) entered into a July 10th Consent Administrative Order...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Riceland Foods, Inc. (“Riceland”) entered into a May 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
9/11/2023
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Arkansas ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Environmental Quality ,
Effluent Limitations ,
Enforcement Actions ,
Food Processing ,
NPDES ,
Wastewater
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Statue Road Inn (“SRI”) entered into a June 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more
8/21/2023
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Arkansas ,
Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Clean Water Act ,
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) ,
Corrective Actions ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Environmental Quality ,
Enforcement ,
NPDES ,
Wastewater
Plaintiffs Maurice Doire and Joshua Hoye, on behalf of themselves and all others similarly situated, filed a Class Action Complaint and Jury Demand (“Complaint”) on July 26th in the United States District Court of Rhode...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Seven-Eleven Hawaii, Inc. (“Seven-Eleven”) entered into an August 10th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Underground...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”), State of New York and Frieslandcampina Ingredients (“FI”) entered into an August 2nd Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of federal and New York air and water...more
8/17/2023
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Clean Air Act ,
Consent ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement Actions ,
New York ,
NPDES ,
Permits ,
Title V ,
Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC) ,
Wastewater
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Joiner, Arkansas, (“Joiner”) entered into a May 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more