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Permits Reporting Requirements

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Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Greenwood Soybean Processing/Oil Extraction Facility Enter...

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Oxbow Greenwood, LLC (“OG”) entered into a July 3rd Agreed Order 9 (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of an Air Permit. See Order No. 7520 25....more

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Building the Environmental Omnibus – the European Commission’s July 22 Call for Evidence

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Earlier in the week, we posted that the European Commission would soon be launching an environmental call for evidence, as a step towards the introduction of an environmental omnibus simplification proposal. That call for...more

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Citizen Suit Enforcement Under the Industrial General Permit: How Businesses Can Avoid Substantial Costs Associated with Notice...

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Each year, many California businesses receive letters from private entities, typically environmental nongovernmental organizations (Citizen Groups), alleging that those businesses’ facilities are in violation of applicable...more

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2026 NPDES Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges: Steel Manufacturers Association Comments on Proposed Federal...

The Steel Manufacturers Association (“SMA”) submitted May 19th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing: Proposed 2026 Multi-Sector General Permit for Stormwater Discharges...more

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Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Grant County Wood Utility...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Stella-Jones Corporation (“SJC”) entered into a May 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of...more

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Habitat Conservation Plans Under the Endangered Species Act: Defenders of Wildlife Publishes a Three-Decade Analysis

The Defenders of Wildlife’s Center for Conservation Innovation announced the publication of a paper titled: Habitat conservation plans under the endangered species act: A comprehensive three-decade analysis (“Paper”)....more

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PFAS Monitoring Requirements and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Under the 2026 NPDES Permit

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On December 13, 2024, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a request for public comment for the 2026 National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit for stormwater...more

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Planning and Infrastructure Bill - NSIP Changes

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The infrastructure measures in the Planning and Infrastructure Bill introduce amendments, principally to the Planning Act 2008, that aim to make the NSIP regime faster and more flexible to support the Government’s major...more

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Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Springdale Baking Facility...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Newly Weds Foods, LLC (“NWF”) entered into a March 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing and alleged violation...more

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The Trump Administration’s Day-One Executive Actions: Impacts on Energy and Environmental Policy and More

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On January 20, 2025, President Trump re-assumed the presidency with a flurry of executive orders and memoranda, many of which directly impacted energy and environmental issues. These orders included a production-minded...more

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Title V/Clean Air Act: Petition to Object Filed Addressing Allegheny County, Pennsylvania Resins Manufacturing Facility

The Environmental Integrity Project and other organizations filed a September 20th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related to Neville...more

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Arkansas Division of Environmental Quality/Office of Water Quality Update: Stacie Wassell (Deputy Associate Director) Arkansas...

Ms. Stacie Wassell undertook a presentation on October 6th at the Arkansas Environmental Federation Convention titled: Office of Water Quality Update (“Presentation”) - Ms. Wassell serves as the Deputy Associate Director...more

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Proposed Fugitive Emissions Amendments Bring Clarity to Major Source Permitting Requirements

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On October 14, 2022, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published proposed revisions to the Clean Air Act’s New Source Review (NSR) permitting regulations. The proposal seeks to repeal specific 2008...more

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Regulating Israeli Banks’ Provision of Services to Licensed Cryptocurrency Service-Providers

The Bank of Israel is proposing to regulate the provision of services to licensed cryptocurrency service providers (i.e., exchange platforms). The purpose of the proposal is to ensure banks are not able to sweepingly refuse...more

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP

What You Need to Know About EPA Enforcement During COVID-19

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued three guidance documents to address changes in enforcement of environmental laws and regulations due to the COVID-19 pandemic. We reviewed these policies to...more

International Lawyers Network

Establishing A Business Entity In Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico offers many advantages to individuals and companies that decide to establish business operations on the Island. These include unique local tax incentives; a strong, dedicated, and skilled bilingual labor force;...more

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Animal Waste Emissions from Large Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations: EPA, under the guns of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the...

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Introduction - Let me be Captain Obvious here. When the title is that long, the topic, including its context and history, is convoluted. Let’s start at the end, work our way toward the beginning, and come full circle. On...more

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

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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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Finally…..The Final Aboveground Storage Tank and Horizontal Well Rules

In March 2016, we predicted that the Aboveground Storage Tank Act (“AST Act”) and changes to the Natural Gas Horizontal Well Control Act (“Horizontal Well Act”) legislative rules would be approved by the West Virginia...more

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PHMSA Proposes to Expand the Requirements for Pipelines Carrying Hazardous Liquids

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The rules would add gathering lines and pipelines in non-HCA areas. On October 13, the US Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) issued a Proposed Rule that would...more

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