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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) State Implementation Plans (SIPs) Department of Environmental Quality

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Arkansas Ambient Air Monitoring Network: Annual Network Plan for 2024-2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) submitted on July 1st to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) a document titled: Arkansas Ambient Air...more

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EPA's Proposed Air Quality Standards Will Cause Permitting Gridlock Across Our Economy: U.S. Chamber of Commerce Report Addressing...

The United States Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) issued a November 2023 report titled: EPA’s Proposed Air Quality Standards Will Cause Permitting Gridlock Across Our Economy (“Report”)...more

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Arkansas State Implementation Plan/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Proposes Approval of Revisions

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the August 22nd Federal Register Notice a proposed rule that would approve portions of the revisions to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”)....more

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Interstate Transport/Ozone: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Petitions United...

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) submitted a March 21st document to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) regarding the federal agency’s prior...more

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EPA Good Neighbor Rule/Healthier Air for Downwind States: U.S. Senate Environment & Public Works Committee Hearing

The United States Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (“Committee”) held a March 29th hearing titled: The EPA Good Neighbor Rule: Healthier Air for Downwind States (“Hearing”)...more

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Interstate Transport/Ozone: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Comments on U.S....

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) submitted on June 21st comprehensive comments on the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed rule: ...more

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Interstate Transport/Ozone: Arkansas Environmental Federation Comments on U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Arkansas State...

The Arkansas Environmental Federation (“AEF”) submitted comments on April 25th to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on a proposed rule disapproving an Arkansas state implementation plan (“SIP”). ...more

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Arkansas Regional Haze/Visibility Transport State Implementation Plan: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Federal Notice...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a March 16th Federal Register Notice proposing to approve a revision to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) submitted by the State of Arkansas...more

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Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment- Department of Environmental Quality State of the Air: 2019 Report Issued

The Office of Air Quality (“OAQ”) of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (“ADEE”), Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) released its annual State of the Air Report (“Report”) on February 29th. Prior to...more

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Intervention Status Update: Sierra Club Challenge to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Approval of Arkansas Haze Plan

The Sierra Club and National Parks Conservation Association (collectively “Sierra Club”) filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) on November 25, 2019 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit challenging...more

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Ozone Season Summary: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (Division of Environmental Quality) Announces 2019 Results

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) issued a draft report titled: Ozone Season Summary 2019 (“Report”) - The Report provides the results of DEQ sampling during...more

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Arkansas State Implementation Plan Revisions/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Notes Elimination of All Backlogs

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an October 17th news release stating that it has: . . .eliminated all backlogs of Arkansas State Implementation Plans (SIPs). This development was also...more

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Good Neighbor Provision/SO2 National Ambient Air Quality Standard: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Proposal to Approve...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published an August 8th Federal Register Notice proposing to approve an Arkansas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) submittal. See 84 Fed. Reg. 38895. The Arkansas...more

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Modified Minor Sources/Arkansas State Implementation Plan: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Announces Approval

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Region 6 Office announced in a June 29th news release that it approved certain revisions to a State of Arkansas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”). The approved...more

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Arkansas State Implementation Plan (Infrastructure)/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Announces...

The Region 6 Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in a February 8th news release announced approval of the State of Arkansas’s State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) for administering programs...more

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Regional Haze: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces Approval of Arkansas State Implementation Plan

United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a January 29th news release announcing approval of the State of Arkansas’s Clean Air Act Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (“SIP”). The approval was...more

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Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality – Implementing Environmental Policies and Regulations: Stuart Spencer (Associate...

Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) Associate Director (Office of Air Quality) Stuart Spencer undertook a January 24th presentation to my University of Arkansas Law School Environmental Law class titled: ...more

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Arkansas Regional Haze State Implementation Plan Revision: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Notice of Data...

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) recently announced three items in regards to its previously proposed (October 31st) revision to the Arkansas Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (“SIP”)...more

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Big River Steel, LLC (Osceola, Ark.) Title V Permit Challenge: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency October 31st Order Denying...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator issued an October 31st Order responding to a 2013 Petition from Nucor Steel – Arkansas and Nucor-Yamato Steel Company (collectively, “Nucor”) objecting...more

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Regional Haze: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Proposed State Implementation Plan Revision

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) announced on October 31st proposed revisions to the State’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (“SIP”)....more

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Arkansas' 1-hr SO2 Saga!!: Stuart Spencer (Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality) Association of Air Pollution Control...

Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) Associate Director, Office of Air Quality, Stuart Spencer, undertook a presentation at the 2017 Fall Business Meeting of the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies...more

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Time to Pay More: EPA Increases Maximum Civil Penalties - Remember the days when the maximum civil penalty EPA could assess for a violation of environmental law was $25,000 per day? Those days disappeared 26 years ago...more

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