The Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials of the United States House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee (“Committee”) held a November 29th hearing titled: America Leads the Way: Our...more
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
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (“MDNR”) and Prairie Valley Disposal, Inc., (“Prairie Valley”) entered into an October 24th Administrative Order on Consent (“AOC”) addressing an alleged violation of the Missouri...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and RK Hall, LLC (“RK”) entered into an October 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and White River Marine Group, LLC (“White River”) entered into an October 19th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (“MDNR”) and Forest City Facility, LLC (“Forest”) entered into an October 20th Administrative Order on Consent (“AOC”) addressing alleged violations of the Missouri Air...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and Westlake Styrene, LLC (“Westlake”) entered into an October 18th Settlement Agreement (“SA”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See SA-AE-23-0032. ...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit (“Court”) addressed in a November 14th decision a challenge to a Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) permit issued by the Texas Commission on...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and Jet Asphalt & Rock Company, Inc. (“Jet Asphalt”) entered into an October 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...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
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Drew Foam Companies, Inc. (“Drew”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and The Bryce Company, LLC (“Bryce”) entered into an October 3rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more
11/7/2023
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Seventy trade groups sent an October 31st letter to Mr. Jeffrey Zients who serves as Chief of Staff in the White House addressing the Clean Air Act National Ambient Air Quality Standard (“NAAQS”) for fine particulate matter...more
The State of Oregon conducted an air curtain incinerator (“ACI”) emission testing project (“Project”) in the Spring of 2023.
The results of the Project were released on October 24th by the Oregon Department of...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Ducommun Labarge Technologies, Inc. (“DLT”) entered into a September 26th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a September 1st proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Gregory Pharmaceutical Holdings, Inc. (“GPHI”).
The Order...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and GPS Gin Company, Inc. (“GPS”) entered into a September 11th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation...more
The National Association of Clean Air Agencies (“NACAA”) sent a September 29th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) providing comments on the federal agency’s FY 2024-2025 National Program...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a September 21st report titled:
The EPA Needs to Address Increasing Air Pollution at Ports (“Report”)...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 United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) proposed revisions to the General Provisions of the Clean Air Act National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (“NESHAP”).
The proposed rule revises...more
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (“MDNR”) and Mid-South Steel Products, Inc., (“Mid-South”) entered into a September 1st Administrative Order on Consent (“Order”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit....more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the September 13th Federal Register a proposed rule that would amend the general provisions for Clean Air Act National Emission Standards for Hazardous...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Triumph Airborne Structures, LLC, (“Triumph) entered into an August 14th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Rock Creek Stone, LLC, (“Rock Creek”) entered into an August 3rd Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of the ADEM air and water regulations. ...more