Senate Bill 726 has been introduced into the 83rd Oregon Legislative Assembly which would address municipal solid waste landfills. The Bill would require the owner or operator of a municipal solid waste landfill to...more
Several individuals (collectively “Petitioners”) filed a Request for Adjudicatory Hearing and Commission Review (“Petition”) on April 14th before the Arkansas Commission on Pollution Control and Ecology (“Commission”)...more
A long-running dispute over a substantial civil penalty issued by the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) for violations of Oregon’s landfill closure requirements continued with the Oregon Court of Appeals’...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) has issued a new edition (January 2020) of its quarterly newsletter. DEQ describes the newsletter as providing...more
The Court of Appeals of North Carolina (“Court”) addressed in a January 7th opinion a Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) closure issue. See State ex. rel. Regan v. Wasco, LLC, No. COA19-355, 2020 WL 63913 (N.C....more
The Court of Civil Appeals of Alabama (“Court”) addressed in an October 11th opinion a challenge to certain Alabama Department Environmental Management (“ADEM”) rules applicable to solid waste landfills. See Smith v. Lefleur,...more
On Monday, the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality issued determinations with respect to six Duke Energy coal plants, requiring that Duke close coal combustion residual surface impoundments at the plants by...more
Mr. Michael Grappe´ will be undertaking a presentation at the Thirty-Fourth International Conference on Solid Waste Technology and Management in Annapolis, Maryland, in the Spring titled: Addressing Tire Dumps through...more
The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals (“Court”) addressed in a May 14th opinion a constitutional challenge to a Wyoming City’s flow control ordinance. See Dirty Boyz Sanitation Serv. Inc., v. City of Rawlins, Wyoming, No....more