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U.S. Supreme Court Limits EPA Discretion in Landmark NPDES Permit Decision

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The Supreme Court’s recent decision in City and County of San Francisco v. Environmental Protection Agency, (EPA) 604 U.S. ____ (2025) significantly alters the regulatory landscape for NPDES permits under the Clean Water Act...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Atkins Enter...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Atkins, Arkansas entered into a May 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean...more

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Pretreatment Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Attala County Dairy Processing Facility Enter into...

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and East Side Jersey Dairy Inc. (“ESJD”) entered into an April 30th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act Pretreatment Permit...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Van Buren Wastewater...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Van Buren Municipal Utilities (“Van Buren”) entered into a February 4th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Saline County...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Pinewood Wastewater, LLC (“Pinewood”) entered into an April 9th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Patterson...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Patterson, Arkansas entered into a March 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Saline County...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Bauxite, Arkansas entered into a March 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of the...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of London Enter...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of London, Arkansas entered into a February 25th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and U.S. Army Corps of...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) entered into a January 23rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

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California Environmental Law & Policy Update 3.7.25

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On Tuesday, in a 5-4 opinion authored by Justice Samuel Alioto, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a pivotal ruling that the Clean Water Act (CWA) provisions authorizing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to impose...more

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Generic Prohibitions/NPDES Permits/Water Quality Standards: United States Supreme Court Decides City/County of San Francisco v....

The Supreme Court of the United States (“Court”) issued an Opinion on March 4th in the case styled: City and County of San Francisco, California v. Environmental Protection Agency. See No. 23-753....more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment and Independence County Wastewater Treatment Facility Enter...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Select Sands America Corp. (“Select Sands”) entered into a July 10th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Jefferson County Coal Preparation Plant Enter into...

The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Crimson Oak Grove Resources, LLC (“Crimson”) entered into a February 13th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of the clean water act national...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Hot Springs...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Lakeside Gardens Horizontal Property Regime (“LG”) entered into a February 3rd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Haskell...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Haskell, Arkansas entered into a December 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation...more

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Pretreatment/Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Olive Branch Pharmaceutical Manufacturing...

The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Natureplex entered into a May 3rd Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act Pretreatment Permit. See Order No. 7323 24. The AO...more

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PFAS/Wastewater Enforcement: Michigan Attorney General Files Judicial Action Against White Pigeon Paper Board Mill for Alleged...

The Michigan Attorney General (“AG”) filed a Complaint in the Michigan Circuit Court for the 30th Judicial Circuit against Ox Paperboard WP, LLC (“Ox”) and White Pigeon Mills, LLC (“White Pigeon”) for alleged violations of a...more

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Subsurface Fluid Distribution System/Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Devonshire Manor Property Owners Association, Inc. (“Devonshire”) entered into an August 21st Consent Administrative Order...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Ozark Industrial...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Tokai Carbon GE LLE (“Tokai”) entered into an August 12th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Saline County Truck...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Al’s Truck Stop of Malvern, Inc. (“Al’s”) entered into an April 30th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged...more

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Enforcement Efforts by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility...

The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (“PEER”) organization has issued an August 2024 report titled: Enforcement Efforts by the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (“Report”)....more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Non-Municipal Sewage...

The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Faulkner County POID (“FC”) entered into a May 15 Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing violations of a Clean Water...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Greenbriar Rock...

Part III Section D, Condition 10 of the RGI NPDES permit requires the submission of a complete permit renewal application at least 180 days prior to the expiration date of the permit if the activity regulated by the permit is...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Greenbrier...

The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Greenbrier (“Greenbrier”) entered into an April 15th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations...more

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Wastewater Enforcement: Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment Notice of Violation Addressing Conejos County Mine

The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment (“CDPHE”) issued on April 30th a Notice of Violation/Cease and Desist Order (“NOV”) to Union Gold, Inc. (“UGI”) addressing alleged violations of the Colorado Water...more

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