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Nitrogen/Phosphorus: EarthJustice Administrative Challenge to West Point Wastewater Treatment Plant (Washington) NPDES Permit...

EarthJustice and Puget Soundkeeper (“EarthJustice”) filed a May 28th Notice of Appeal (“Notice”) before the Washington Pollution Control Hearings Board challenging a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Hardy Enter...

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Hardy, Arkansas (“Hardy”) entered into a February 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and the City of Wilmot...

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Wilmot, Arkansas, (“Wilmot”) entered into a September 29th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

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Wastewater/Air Enforcement: Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Denham Springs Ready-Mixed Concrete Facility Enter...

The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Angelle Concrete Group, LLC (“ACG”) entered into a Settlement Agreement (“Settlement”) addressing alleged wastewater and air permit violations. See Settlement...more

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TPDES Permit/Coal Mine: Texas Supreme Court Addresses Whether Contractor is an Operator

The Supreme Court of Texas (“Court”) addressed in a February 11th opinion what constitutes an operator for purposes of a wastewater permit. See Texas Commission on Environmental Quality v. Maverick County, 642 S.W.3d 537. ...more

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Proposed “California Clean Water Act” (AB 377) Would Restrict Ability to Secure Schedules of Compliance in Water Quality Permits...

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AB 377, entitled the “California Clean Water Act,” introduced by Assemblymember Rivas in February 2021, includes provisions to eliminate all “impaired waterways” and make all waters in California suitable for drinking,...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Department of Environmental Quality and Phillips County...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Southland Improvement District (“SID”) entered into a December 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more

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Waste Water Discharge & Disposal: 9th Circuit Clarifies Permit Obligations

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Call this one a case of misdirection, but an Appellate Opinion seems to simplify matters. If anything having to do with environmental law can be considered simple....more

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Ninth Circuit Holds That Indirect Discharges Require NPDES Permits

On February 1, the Ninth Circuit issued a decision that has the potential to sweep regulated groundwater discharges that reach surface waters, and similarly remote-in-place discharge situations, into the Clean Water Act’s...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and Faulkner County, Arkansas Wastewater Treatment Facility...

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Waste Water Management, Inc. (“WWMI”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (‘CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollution...more

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