The Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (“CASAC”) sent a February 4th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing the following subject: CASAC Review of the EPA’s Policy Assessment for...more
The Sierra Club, WildEarth Guardians, Center for Biological Diversity, and High Country Conservation Advocates (collectively “Sierra Club”) and Mountain Coal Company and Arch Resources, Inc. (collectively “Mountain Coal”)...more
Earthjustice sent a January 20th letter to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) alleging violations of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and...more
The National Association of Clean Air Agencies (“NACAA”) submitted November 30th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in response to the federal agency’s request for feedback on the...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (“Court”) in a November 12th Opinion addressed a challenge to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Medium- and Heavy-Duty Engines and Vehicles...more
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The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Wynne, Arkansas (“Wynne”), entered into a November 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Crosbys Creek Oil & Gas, LLC (“Crosbys”) entered into a November 5th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit.
The CO states...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Flying Pig Pipeline, L.P. – Hot Link Compressor Station (“Flying Pig”) entered into an October 4th Consent Administrative Order...more
The Conservation Law Foundation, Inc. (“CLF”), and DATTCO, Inc. (“DATTCO”), entered into a Consent Decree (“CD”) addressing alleged violations of the Connecticut Clean Air Act State Implementation Plan provisions addressing...more
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Grooms Aluminum Processors (“GAP”) entered into a September 9th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit.
The CO provides that...more
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator Michael S. Regan (“Administrator”) in an October 12th letter responded to a Petition for Reconsideration submitted by the Sierra Club, Environmental Defense Fund,...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a September 13th proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to ColorCoat, Inc. (“ColorCoat”). See Case No. APC21-0102.
The...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a September 8th proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Impact Plastics, Inc. (“IPI”) addressing alleged violations of an...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a Proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) on August 9th to Allison Transmission, Inc. d/b/a Walker Die Casting (“Allison”). ...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and AHF, LLC (“AHF”), entered into a July 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit....more
Earthjustice submitted an August 24th Petition to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) asking that it make an endangerment finding under Section 231 of the Clean Air Act in regards to aviation gasoline...more
The Clean Air Council and Environmental Integrity Project (collectively “EIP”) filed a July 14th Notice of Appeal (“Appeal”) of an air permit issued by the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection to Robinson Power...more
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Evercompounds, LLC, (“Evercompounds”) entered into a July 2nd Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See Order No. 7135 21. ...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the United States Army, Pine Bluff Arsenal (“U.S. Army”) entered into a June 28th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The American Water Works Association (“AWWA”) sent a July 19th letter to the Chairman and Ranking Member of the United States House of Representatives Committee on Rules urging support for an amendment (“Amendment 18”) to the...more
The Tennessee Air Pollution Board (“Board”) issued a Proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Patriot Recycling, Inc., (“Patriot”). See Case No. APC21-0022.
The Order provides...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the Board of Trustees of the University of Arkansas Acting For and on Behalf of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a June 25th Project Notification titled:
Overdue Residual Risk and Technology Reviews (“Notification”) -
The...more
The Office of Air Quality (“OAQ”) issued two guidance documents addressing Arkansas air permitting issues titled:
Arkansas Air Quality Permitting – Introductory Guide (“ Introductory Guide”)
Arkansas Air Permitting...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a June 14th report titled:
EPA Has Reduced its Backlog of State Implementation Plans Submitted Prior to 2013 but...more