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The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Acme Brick Company (“ABC”) entered into a July 28th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of an Air Permit. See Consent Order No. XXXXXXX....more
On September 10, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a final rule granting Arizona primacy to administer all classes of underground injection wells under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA). This...more
Following the Trump administration’s abrupt cancelation of the Revolution Wind project at the end of August, Revolution Wind LLC, a joint venture between Ørsted and Skyborn Renewables, filed suit in the U.S. District Court...more
The Mississippi Commission of Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Nitrous Oxide Corporation (“NOC”) entered into an August 5th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Mississippi Administrative Code concerning...more
Governor Gavin Newsom has signed an executive order to accelerate the permitting of energy generation projects that could be set to lose Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) support, many of which are renewable power projects. The...more
Part three of a three-part series - As previously reported in Part 1 of this series, on June 30, 2025 Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 131 into law (SB 131), amending the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA)...more
What You Need to Know - • The NJDEP has issued “substantial changes” to New Jersey’s Resilient Environments and Landscapes (REAL) proposed rules, seeking to modernize the state’s coastal flood safety and land resource rules...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) had filed a complaint in 2022 for declaratory and injunctive relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court (Eastern...more
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced on September 2 a legislative package that he promised would put an end to certain antiquated permitting requirements. The package represents the latest pieces of Permit SF, a larger...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) addressed a Petition challenging a HF Sinclair Tulsa Refining LLC -West Refinery (“Refinery”) Resource Conservation and Recovery...more
The Arkansas Department of Agriculture announced the next Water Well Construction Committee (“Committee”) will meet on September 10th. The Committee will meet at 9:30 A.M. at the Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s Natural...more
Randy Thurman undertook a presentation at the August 20, 2025, Arkansas Solid Waste Association of North America (“SWANA”) Annual Meeting/Update in Conway, Arkansas titled: Solid Waste Legislative Update (“Update”). Randy is...more
Klickitat County, Washington has proposed a new land use ordinance that, if passed, would impose sweeping restrictions on nearly all solar and battery energy storage system (BESS) development in the county. The ordinance,...more
The Environmental Council of the States (“ECOS”) issued an August 28 report titled: GREEN REPORT – STATUS OF STATE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY BUDGETS – Fiscal Years 2020 to 2023 (“Report”). ...more
All residential and commercial roofing and reroofing projects in Louisiana require a permit, and it is a violation of Louisiana law for contractors to start work without a permit, misrepresent project details, or fail to...more
2025 saw a number of Growth Management Act (GMA) and housing related bills in Washington, which are particularly relevant as planning counties and cities are in the middle of preparing their comprehensive plan updates and as...more
David Hatem explores the response to tragic events such as the Surfside Condominium collapse in June 2021 should not be finding more parties to sue or defenses to establish, but to develop constructive initiatives and...more
Elliot Company, Inc. (“ECI”) filed a July 24th Notice of Appeal (“Appeal”) before the Pennsylvania Environmental Hearing Board (“Board”) challenging certain conditions related to oil and grease (“O&G”) effluent limits in a...more
Palmer Renewable Energy, LLC v. Zoning Bd. of Appeals of Springfield, 105 Mass. App. Ct. 518 (2025) - Palmer involved a dispute concerning the so-called “Permit Extension Act,” passed by the Massachusetts Legislature (the...more
Whether from the perspective of a developer, user or tenant, debt or equity financing provider, the government, or the broader community, the development of a data center project requires a host of considerations to assess...more
For nearly a decade, tension has grown in Oregon between the desire for agricultural and wildlife conservation and the desire for renewable energy development. In 2023, the Oregon Legislature passed House Bill 3409, directing...more
In Nevada, a game inventor or “developer” cannot offer a table game for play unless it qualifies as a “game” or “gambling game,” as defined by the Gaming Control Act (the “Act”), or unless the Nevada Gaming Commission (the...more
The Washington Department of Ecology (“WDE”) has proposed an air quality general order for data centers in certain areas of the State of Washington. The draft order applies to data centers that use emergency generators...more
Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s (TCEQ) issuance of an amended New Source Review (NSR) air permit to multinational joint-venture Port Arthur...more
In Nevada, four tiers of registration or licensing capture almost all individuals and companies involved in the gaming industry. The overall policy for registration and licensing is to protect the public’s confidence and...more