Air Pollution, Administrative Law Judge (ALJ)

A Fifth Circuit Case on BACT Reflects Trend in Citizen Opposition to Gulf Coast Projects

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 8/22/2025

Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) issuance of an amended New Source Review (NSR) air permit to multinational joint-venture Port Arthur...more

Cryptocurrency Mining Facility/Natural Gas-Fired Electric Generating Plant: New York Administrative Law Judge Upholds Denial of...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 10/2/2023

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

Court Rejects EPA’s Narrow Interpretation of a Key RCRA Exemption, Undercutting a National Enforcement Initiative

Beveridge & Diamond PC on 9/29/2022

On September 22, 2022, the Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or the Agency) issued an Order finalizing a recent decision of an EPA Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) that rejected...more

Manufacturing Process Unit Exemption/RCRA: U.S. EPA Administrative Law Judge Addresses Applicability Question

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/17/2022

A United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrative Law Judge Christine Donelian Coughlin (“ALJ”) interpreted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) term “manufacturing process unit” (“MPU”) in...more

Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Administrative Law Judge Recommended Decision: Alleged Cotton Plant, Arkansas...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 1/15/2018

Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) Administrative Law Judge (“ALJ”) Charles Moulton issued a December 21st Recommended Decision addressing alleged violations by Tristate Contracting of Brinkley,...more

Environmental Case Law Update

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 10/17/2016

“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date.” Many important environmental and administrative law decisions were reported by the federal and state courts over the past six months. The courts are dealing with very...more