Permits, Waste Treatment Facilities, Wastewater

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Highfill...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/1/2024

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

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/11/2024

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

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Green County College...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 3/13/2024

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality ("DEQ") and Crowleys Ridge College ("Crowleys Ridge") entered into a February 20th Consent Administrative Order ("CAO") addressing an...more

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/7/2024

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

Chlorination/Clean Water Act: Amherst Massachusetts POTW: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Challenge to NPDES Permit

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/30/2023

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

Nonmunicipal Domestic Wastewater Treatment Facility/Pulaski County Improvement District: Request for Hearing/Adjudicatory Review...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/19/2023

Three Requests for Hearing and Adjudicatory Review (“Requests”) have been filed before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“APC&EC”) challenging a nonmunicipal domestic wastewater treatment facility discharge...more

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/21/2022

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Parkin, Arkansas, entered into an October 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more

UIC/SSO Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Salesville...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/30/2021

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Salesville, Arkansas, (“Salesville”) entered into an April 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more

Combined Sewer System/NPDES Permit: City/County of San Francisco U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition for Review

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 1/20/2020

The City and County of San Francisco (collectively “San Francisco”) filed a January 13th pleading before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) titled: Petition for...more

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 1/20/2020

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

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (Division of Environmental Quality) and City of Carlisle,...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 1/15/2020

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Carlisle, Arkansas (“Carlisle”) entered into a December 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality and City of Altus Enter into Consent Administrative Order

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/25/2019

The Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Altus, Arkansas (“City”) entered into a September 27th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National...more

Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and City of Danville, Arkansas Enter into Consent...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/21/2019

The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Danville, Arkansas (“City”) entered into a July 31st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National...more

Does a Discharge to Groundwater Require a Clean Water Act NPDES Permit?: Brief of Amici Curiae National Association of Clean Water...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 5/24/2019

The National Association of Clean Water Agencies (“NACWA”) and other municipalities filed an Amicus Brief in the pending Supreme Court of the United States case styled County of Maui v. Hawai’i Wildlife Fund, et al....more

Phosphorus/Clean Water Act: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition Challenging Sandpoint, Idaho NPDES Permit

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/18/2018

The Idaho Conservation League (“ICL”) filed a July 11th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging certain conditions in a...more

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

Lewitt Hackman on 3/26/2018

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

U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board: Fairhaven, Massachusetts Petition Challenging NPDES Permit Nitrogen Limit

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/17/2017

The Town of Fairhaven, Massachusetts (“Fairhaven”) filed an October 27th Petition for Review before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”). Fairhaven is challenging...more

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

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 9/28/2017

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

U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition for Review: Land & Cattle Company August 22nd Challenge to New Mexico City/Village's...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/25/2017

The Rio Hondo Land & Cattle Company (“Rio Hondo”) filed an August 22nd Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Appeals Board challenging certain terms and...more

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