The Environmental Integrity Project and other organizations filed a September 20th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related to Neville...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an August 16th Order Denying a Petition Objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”) for the Turnkey...more
The Sierra Club filed a May 13th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to the Salt River Project Agricultural Improvement and Power District (“SRP”). ...more
The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) transmitted a May 8th Clean Air Act Notice of Intent to Sue (“NOI”) to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) over an alleged failure to: …issue or deny the...more
The National Association of Clean Air Agencies (“NACAA”) submitted April 10th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing a rule proposed on January 9th titled: Clarifying the Scope...more
The Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians (collectively, “CBD”) filed a Clean Air Act Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to Arch...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Packaging Specialties, Inc. (“PSI”) entered into a January 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
Sixteen individuals (collectively, “Petitioners”) filed a February 9th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to Waste Management of New Hampshire,...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a September 29th Order Denying a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Permit (“Permit”) to the City of Chicago...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a November 7th Order (“Order”) granting in part and denying in part a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V...more
A New York Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) issued a decision (Ruling on Issues and Party Status [“Decisions”]) upholding the State of New York Department of Conservation (“NYDEC”) decision to deny a Clean Air Act Title V...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company (“KTCC”) entered into a May 31st Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a final rule in the July 21st Federal Register that removes the emergency affirmative defense provisions found in the regulations for state and federal Title V...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a February 22nd Order Granting In Part and Denying In Part two Petitions objections to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Calgon Carbon Corporation (“Calgon”) entered into an April 12th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Order No. 7242 23. ...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator issued a March 14th Order denying a Petition for Objection to Permit (“Order”) for a Waelz Sustainable Products, LLC, (“Waelz”) production facility in...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a February 15th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Environmental Trust Company d/b/a Meadow Branch Landfill (“ETC”) addressing...more
The Center for Biological Diversity and Grand Valley Citizens Alliance (collectively, “CBD”) filed a November 23rd Petition to Object (“Petition”) to an initial Title V permit (“Permit”) issued by the Colorado Department of...more
WildEarth Guardians filed a September 26th Petition (“Petition”) requesting that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator object to the initial Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit for the...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board issued a May 20th proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to O-N Minerals (Luttrell) Company d/b/a Carmeuse Lime & Stone (“O-N”) addressing an...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Gulf South Pipeline Company, LP (“Gulf South”) entered into a Settlement to address alleged air permit violations. See Settlement Tracking No. SA-AE-21-0032....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in a February 5th Federal Register Notice issued a final rule that states it: . . . revises its regulations to streamline and clarify processes related to...more
Major sources of air pollution must obtain a Clean Air Act Title V permit under their state’s EPA- approved implementation plan. Permits, of course, can be challenged. By petition to the EPA Administrator, the Sierra Club...more
The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an Order responding to two Petitions requesting objection to the issuance of a Title V operating permit (“Permit”) for the Hyland Facility...more
Earlier this week, on April 30, 2018, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) quietly modified its source determination test that is used to determine whether emissions from nearby and closely related sources should be...more