The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) submitted on August 6th to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) a document titled: ARKANSAS AMBIENT AIR...more
The United States Chamber of Commerce (“Chamber”) issued a November 2023 report titled: EPA’s Proposed Air Quality Standards Will Cause Permitting Gridlock Across Our Economy (“Report”)...more
The United States Senate Environment & Public Works Committee (“Committee”) held a March 29th hearing titled: The EPA Good Neighbor Rule: Healthier Air for Downwind States (“Hearing”)...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a March 16th Federal Register Notice proposing to approve a revision to the Arkansas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) submitted by the State of Arkansas...more
The Office of Air Quality (“OAQ”) of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment (“ADEE”), Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) released its annual State of the Air Report (“Report”) on February 29th. Prior to...more
The Sierra Club and National Parks Conservation Association (collectively “Sierra Club”) filed a Petition for Review (“Petition”) on November 25, 2019 in the United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit challenging...more
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) issued a draft report titled: Ozone Season Summary 2019 (“Report”) - The Report provides the results of DEQ sampling during...more
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published an August 8th Federal Register Notice proposing to approve an Arkansas State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) submittal. See 84 Fed. Reg. 38895. The Arkansas...more
The Office of Air Quality (“OAQ”) of the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality publishes a quarterly newsletter (“Newsletter”). OAQ recently published the Fall 2018 edition....more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) has scheduled a listening session for August 13th on a pre-proposal draft regulation which is described as streamlining Arkansas Air Quality Regulations. The...more
As noted in a May 30th post, the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) has prepared a pre-proposal draft regulation which is described as Streamlining Arkansas Air Quality Regulations. The pre-proposal...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) Office of Air Quality published the Winter 2018 edition of its quarterly newsletter. The newsletter addresses a variety of issues that come within the scope of the...more
The Region 6 Office of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in a February 8th news release announced approval of the State of Arkansas’s State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) for administering programs...more
United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a January 29th news release announcing approval of the State of Arkansas’s Clean Air Act Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (“SIP”). The approval was...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) recently announced three items in regards to its previously proposed (October 31st) revision to the Arkansas Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (“SIP”)...more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) Office of Air Quality publishes a quarterly newsletter (“Newsletter). The Fall 2017 edition was recently published....more
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) announced on October 31st proposed revisions to the State’s Regional Haze State Implementation Plan (“SIP”)....more
Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) Associate Director, Office of Air Quality, Stuart Spencer, undertook a presentation at the 2017 Fall Business Meeting of the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies...more