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The Environmental Integrity Project and other organizations filed a September 20th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related to Neville...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an August 16th Order Denying a Petition Objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”) for the Turnkey...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
Sixteen individuals (collectively, “Petitioners”) filed a February 9th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to Waste Management of New Hampshire,...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a September 29th Order Denying a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Permit (“Permit”) to the City of Chicago...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Westlake Styrene, LLC (“Westlake”) entered into an October 18th Settlement Agreement (“SA”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See SA-AE-23-0032. ...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a November 7th Order (“Order”) granting in part and denying in part a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V...more
A New York Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) issued a decision (Ruling on Issues and Party Status [“Decisions”]) upholding the State of New York Department of Conservation (“NYDEC”) decision to deny a Clean Air Act Title V...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed revisions to the General Provisions of the Clean Air Act National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (“NESHAP”). The proposed rule revises...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the September 13th Federal Register a proposed rule that would amend the general provisions for Clean Air Act National Emission Standards for Hazardous...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator issued a March 14th Order denying a Petition for Objection to Permit (“Order”) for a Waelz Sustainable Products, LLC, (“Waelz”) production facility in...more
On February 10, 2023, the Sixth Circuit issued an opinion in Sierra Club, et al. v. U.S. EPA, et al., (Case No. 21-3057). The case involved a petition for review filed by the Sierra Club, the Ohio Environmental Council, and...more
How the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will factor environmental justice (EJ) principles into permitting decisions remained largely an open question throughout 2022. In the waning days of the year, EPA’s Office of...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) stated in a November16th letter that an oil refinery on St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands may not resume operations without going through New Source Review (“NSR”)....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
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator issued a March 4th Order Granting in Part and Denying in Part a Petition for Objection to Permit (“Order”) for a BP products North America, Inc. (“BP”)...more
The Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, Center for Biological Diversity, and High Country Conservation Advocates (collectively “Sierra Club”) and Mountain Coal Company and Arch Resources, Inc. (collectively “Mountain Coal”)...more
The Virginia State Air Pollution Control Board (Air Board) took its first measurable step toward a change in air permitting by creating a Subcommittee on Public Participation Processes (the Subcommittee) on June 21, 2019. The...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a July 8th report titled: EPA Should Conduct More Oversight of Synthetic-Minor-Source Permitting to Assure Permits...more
Typically when considering the regulatory risk presented by per- and polyfluoroalkyl (“PFAS”) compounds, businesses think of the regulation of drinking water, groundwater, and consumer products. However, there is an increased...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Gulf South Pipeline Company, LLC, (“Gulf South”) entered into an April 4th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Air Act Title V...more
Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (“GASP”) filed a Title V Petition to Object before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related to UOP, LLC Mobile Plant (“UOP”). The Title...more
THE FEDERAL APPELLATE COURTS - The U.S. Court of Appeals - On November 23, 2020, the court, in a 2-to-1 vote, rejected the plaintiff’s request for an emergency injunction pending appeal in the case of Manzanita Band of...more
U.S. Shale Producers Race for Federal Permits Ahead of Presidential Election - "Federal permitting in the largest U.S. oilfield in the Permian Basin, located in Texas and New Mexico, is up 80 percent in about the last three...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the U.S. Army, Pine Bluff Arsenal (“the Arsenal”) entered into an August 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more