The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) issued a Notice of Violation (“NOV”) to Eaton-Moery Environmental Services, Inc. (“Eaton”). See LIS No. 07-098. The NOV states...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Mississippi County Landfill (“MCL”) entered into a September 11th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Waste Corporation of Arkansas, LLC (“WC”) entered into a September 11th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality and the City of Camden, Arkansas entered into an August 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of Arkansas...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and City of Little Rock Landfill (“LRL”) entered into an April 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged...more
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) and St. Landry Parish Solid Waste Disposal District (“St. Landry”) entered into a Settlement Agreement (“SA”) addressing alleged violations of a solid waste permit...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Get Rid of It of America Corp. (“Get Rid of It”) entered into a March 14th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...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 Oregon (“Court”) issued a December 18th opinion addressing whether the temporary storage of waste mulch generated pursuant to a landfill closure constituted an irrevocable license. See Joseph Mill...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
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
The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit (“Court”) addressed whether two Pureto Rican municipalities could prohibit the beneficial use and disposal of coal ash (also known as Coal Combustion Residuals [“CCR”]...more
Time to Pay More: EPA Increases Maximum Civil Penalties - Remember the days when the maximum civil penalty EPA could assess for a violation of environmental law was $25,000 per day? Those days disappeared 26 years ago...more