The City of Holyoke, Massachusetts, (“Holyoke”) filed a document before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) titled:
Petition for Review of City of Holyoke Water...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and TD Granite & Marble (“TD”) entered into a February 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
3/6/2024
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Clean Water Act ,
Department of Environmental Quality ,
Discharge of Pollutants ,
Enforcement Actions ,
NPDES ,
Permits ,
Reclamation ,
Storm Water ,
Stormwater Discharge Permits
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Arkansas and Missouri Railroad Company (“AMRC”) entered into a February 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
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
The Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (“TDEC”) issued a July 13th proposed Director’s Order and Assessment (“Order”) to Kopper Glo Mining, LLC (“Kopper”). See Case No. MGR22-0118.
The Order provides that...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Runyan Sewer Improvement District No. 221 (“Runyan”) entered into a January 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has public noticed draft guidance (“ Draft Guidance”) to:
. . . to clarify and inform future National Pollutant Discharge Elimination (“NPDES”) permitting actions...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Dumas, Arkansas, entered into a January 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more
2/13/2024
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Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Clean Water Act ,
Compliance ,
Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) ,
Corrective Actions ,
Department of Energy (DOE) ,
Department of Environmental Quality ,
Enforcement ,
NPDES ,
Wastewater ,
Water Pollution
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Lincoln County Detention Center (“Center”) entered into a January 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Berg Brothers Recycling, Inc. (“Berg Brothers”) entered into a January 31st Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act stormwater...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and East End Holdings, LLC (“East End”) entered into a January 24th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and the City of Gosnell, Arkansas (“Gosnell”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) to address an alleged...more
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and two states entered into a January 8th Consent Decree (“CD”) in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California with the following entities: ...more
1/25/2024
/ Civil Monetary Penalty ,
Consent Decrees ,
Department of Environmental Management ,
Department of Justice (DOJ) ,
Enforcement ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
NPDES ,
Renewable Energy ,
Solar Energy ,
Storm Water ,
US Army Corps of Engineers ,
Water Pollution
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a recent opinion whether a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit should have been obtained by...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Bradford, Arkansas, (“Bradford”)entered into an October 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Eagle Ridge Utility Operating Company, LLC (“Eagle Ridge”) entered into an October 20th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Countryside Land & Cattle Co., LLC (“Countryside”) entered into a November 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more
The United States Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy (“SBA”) submitted December 21st comments addressing the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) document titled:
Draft Guidance...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced a pre-Federal Register Notice for a proposed rule addressing Clean Water Act effluent limit guidelines for the Meat and Poultry Products (“MPP”) industrial...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Nashville, Arkansas, (“Nashville”) entered into October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin and 10 other states filed in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana (“Court”) a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) against the...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) in a November 20th Opinion addressed an issue involving the applicability of the Section 402 Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination...more
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
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) is issuing for public comment draft guidance on applying the United States Supreme Court decision in County of Maui vs. Hawaii Wildlife Fund.
EPA had previously...more
11/29/2023
/ Clean Water Act ,
Discharge of Pollutants ,
Draft Guidance ,
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ,
Groundwater ,
Hawaii Wildlife Fund v County of Maui ,
Navigable Waters ,
NPDES ,
Permits ,
SCOTUS ,
Water Pollution
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Bay, Arkansas (“Bay”) entered into an October 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more