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Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission of Environmental Quality and Tunica Chemical Facility Enter into Agreed Order

The Mississippi Commission of Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Drexel Chemical Company (“Drexel”) entered into a May 16th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge...more

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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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Carolinas Environmental Legislative Update

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Both the North and South Carolina legislatures have recently adopted statutes affecting environmental issues in their respective states. This update highlights the most significant developments in North and South Carolina....more

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

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

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

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Banks, Arkansas, (“Banks”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean...more

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

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

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

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Lexa, Arkansas, (“Lexa”) entered into a September 13th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more

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Pretreatment Enforcement Discretion/Clean Water Act: Federal Court Addresses Massachusetts Water Utilities Motion to Dismiss

The United States District Court of Massachusetts (“Court”) addressed in a February 17th Memorandum and Order (“Memorandum”) an issue arising out of a Clean Water Act citizen suit action. See Conservation Law Foundation,...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: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and City of Booneville Enter into Agreed Order

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and City of Booneville, Mississippi, (“Booneville”) entered into a February 7th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and U.S. Army Corps of...

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (Memphis District) (“Corps”) entered into a January 24th Consent Administrative Order...more

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

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Rector, Arkansas, (“Rector”) entered into an October 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more

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Catching Up on the 2021 Clean Water Act Releases

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The latest season of Clean Water Act (CWA) changes are now streaming from the courts and federal agencies. The Biden administration and lower courts have picked up where prior administrations and the U.S. Supreme Court left...more

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

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Mountain Top Suburban Improvement District (“Mountain Top”) entered into an April 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...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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Regional Water Quality Control Board Unlawfully Delegated Authority to Modify Effluent Limits Under Discharge Permit

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A California Court of Appeal invalidated a wastewater discharge permit issued by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board that the court found impermissibly delegated to the Board’s executive officer the...more

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What’s In Your Permit?

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On November 30, 2020, a workgroup within the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released information about a memorandum to the U.S. EPA Regional Administrators summarizing an Interim Strategy for Per- and...more

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EPA Memo Confirms Pending NPDES Plan to Monitor PFAS

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a press release on Nov. 30, 2020, describing recommendations from the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)...more

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PFAS/Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Issues Interim Strategy for NPDES Permitting

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a memorandum titled: Recommendations from the PFAS NPDES Regional Coordinators Committee - Interim Strategy for Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Ouachita River Joint...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the Ouachita River Joint Pipeline permittees (“Joint Pipeline”) entered into a July 29th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Shannon Hills Sewer...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Heinke Road Property Owners – Sewer Improvement District No. 34 (“District”) entered into a July 30th Consent Administrative...more

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Section 404 Permitting/Today & Tomorrow: Jimmy Rogers (FTN Associates) Arkansas Environmental Federation Webinar Presentation

Mr. Jimmy Rogers undertook a webinar presentation for the Arkansas Environmental Federation titled: Section 404 Permitting – Today & Tomorrow (“Presentation”) - Mr. Rogers is an environmental scientist with FTN...more

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Trump Administration Issues “Step Two” Rule Narrowing Federal Wetland Jurisdiction

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On April 21, 2020, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) and the United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) published in the Federal Register the so-called “Step Two” rule revising the definition of...more

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

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Black Rock, Arkansas (“Black Rock”) entered into a December 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more

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

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

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