Environmental Violations, Volatile Organic Compounds (VOC)

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Howard County Gypsum...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 6/5/2025

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Certainteed Gypsum Manufacturing, Inc. (“CGM”) entered into a May 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...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

Air Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Chambers County Strandboard Manufacturing Facility Enter into...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 12/6/2024

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and West Fraser US EWP LLC (“West Fraser”) entered into a November 6th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See Consent Order No....more

Air Enforcement: Missouri Department of Natural Resources and Jackson County Lighting Systems Manufacturing Plant Enter into...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 10/17/2024

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (“MDNR”) and Peterson Manufacturing Company (“Peterson”) entered into an August 22nd Administrative Order on Consent (“AOC”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See No....more

Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Blue Springs Automobile Manufacturing Plant Enter into Agreed...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/23/2024

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Toyota Motor Manufacturing, Mississippi, Inc. (“Toyota”) entered into an August 16th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Title V Operating...more

Air Enforcement: Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Technical Secretary's Order Addressing Lynchburg Distillery

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/6/2024

The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a June 28th Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Jack Daniel Distillery, LEM (“Jack Daniel”) for alleged violations of an air...more

Title V/Clean Air Act: Petition to Object Filed Addressing Gunnison County, Colorado, Coal Mine Permit

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 2/27/2024

The Center for Biological Diversity and WildEarth Guardians (collectively, “CBD”) filed a Clean Air Act Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to Arch...more

California Combats Greenwashing with New Voluntary Carbon Offset and Carbon-Neutral and Low-Carbon Product Disclosure Law

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 12/20/2023

California’s unprecedented AB 1305 law purports to target “greenwashing” by mandating public disclosures about virtually any claim of “significant” carbon reductions, but its broad wording and uncertain effective date raise...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Stuttgart Agricultural...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 12/12/2023

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Riceland Foods, Inc. (“Riceland”) entered into a November 6th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more

Air Enforcement: United States Department of Justice and Owego, New York, Metal Shredding Facility Enter into Consent Decree

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 8/4/2023

The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) entered into a Consent Decree (“CD”) with Upstate Shredding, LLC (“Upstate”) and Weitsman Shredding, LLC (“Weitsman”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. The...more

Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Olive Branch Beverage Manufacturing Facility Enter into...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/27/2023

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Ardagh Metal Packaging USA Corp. (“Ardagh”) entered into an April 12th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See Order No. 7244...more

Title V/Clean Air Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Grants Petition Objecting to Cambria County, Pennsylvania, Power Plant

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 7/6/2022

The Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a June 7th Order granting a Petition objecting to the issuance of a Clean Air Act Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”) to the Colver Power...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Garland County Rubber Product...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 4/20/2022

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Alliance Rubber Company (“Alliance”) entered into a March 17th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more

Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Maumelle Infant Care Product...

Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard,... on 12/31/2021

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Kimberly-Clark Corporation (“Kimberly-Clark”) entered into a December 13th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more

VOC Emissions from Upstream Oil and Gas Operations: EPA Kicks Off 2020 Clean Air Enforcement with Two Significant Settlements

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 1/30/2020

Last week, the EPA announced two significant settlements for violations of the Clean Air Act relating to emissions of volatile organic compounds (“VOCs”) from upstream oil and gas production facilities. These enforcement...more

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