Environmental Violations, Oil & Gas, Permits

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Union County Petroleum...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/24/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Lion Oil Company, LLC (“Lion”) entered into a July 1st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an...more

Air Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Conecuh County Gas/Oil Production Wellsite Enter into Consent...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/23/2025

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Fletcher Petroleum CO., LLC (“Fletcher”) entered into a March 26th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Consent Order No....more

Title V/Clean Air Act: Center for Biological Diversity Petition to Object Filed Addressing Weld County, Colorado Compressor...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/11/2025

The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed an April 3rd Clean Air Act Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to DC Operating Company, LP for the...more

Citizen Suit Actions/Clean Water Act: Environmental Integrity Project Files Lawsuits Against Two Louisiana Petroleum Coke Plants

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/14/2025

The Environmental Integrity Project (“EIP”) filed a Clean Water Act citizen suit action in the United States District Court for the Western District of Louisiana against the following: RAIN CII CARBON, LLC. – Sulfur,...more

Proposed Methanol Manufacturing/Shipping Terminal (Kalama, Washington): Sierra Club Files National Environmental Policy Act...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 11/27/2019

The Sierra Club and several other organizations (collectively “Sierra Club”) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington...more

Hazardous Waste/Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Gulfport, Mississippi Chemical Company...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 5/1/2018

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Channel Chemical Company (“CCC”) entered into a March 29th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged used oil, hazardous waste, and wastewater violations. See...more

Beware Environmental Regulations Lurking in Local Codes – Such as the Wellhead Protection Program

Tonkon Torp LLP on 6/15/2017

Most companies know that the environmental impacts of their operations are regulated by the federal government (primarily the US Environmental Protection Agency) and various state governments (in Oregon, primarily the Oregon...more

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