The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of England, Arkansas entered into a November 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
In 2020, President-elect Donald Trump promised to ensure that “America’s most critical infrastructure projects” would not be “tied up and bogged down by an outrageously slow and burdensome federal approval process.” Much of...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued on December 5th a press release publishing a report titled: Enforcement and Compliance Annual Results for Fiscal Year 2024 (“Report”)....more
The Sierra Club and three other environmental organizations filed the following document before the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on December 3rd: Petition to Object to the Title V Operating...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Wynne, Arkansas entered into a November 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing operation of a wastewater...more
The 95th Arkansas General Assembly will convene on January 13, 2025. Bill filing began on November 15th. Senator J. Payton introduced Senate Bill 8....more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Town of Gloster, Mississippi entered into a July 8th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) published a public notice on December 9th stating that the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“APC&EC”) initiated...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Georgia-Pacific Wood Products, LLC (“GP”) entered into a November 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Almyra, Arkansas entered into a November 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Hood Industries, Inc. (“Hood”) entered into a November 12th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Hoover Treated Wood Products, Inc. (“Hoover”) entered into a November 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Ammunition Operations, LLC (“AO”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Lake Village, Arkansas entered into an October 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
In Marin Audubon Society v. FAA, the D.C. Circuit held the White House Council on Environmental Quality ("CEQ") lacks authority to issue binding regulations under the National Environmental Policy Act ("NEPA")....more
A split panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit landed an unexpected blow on the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) on November 12, ruling that CEQ lacked authority to promulgate its umbrella...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the Good Shephard Humane Society, Inc. (“Good Shephard”) entered into a November 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and James Osborne entered into a September 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of Arkansas...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Nucor Corporation (“Nucor”) entered into an October 14th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Highfill, Arkansas entered into an October 14 Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia (“Court”) addressed in an August 15th Opinion a Clean Water Act jurisdictional question. See United States v. Chameleon, LLC, No. 3:23-CV-763–HEH, 2024 WL...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Certainteed Gypsum Manufacturing, Inc. (“Certainteed”) entered into an October 14th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
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 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