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Understanding Patient Safety Organizations: A Practical Guide
Category: Health Care
If you work in the healthcare industry, you have likely heard about Patient Safety Organizations (PSOs) and the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA). This article breaks down what these frameworks mean and how they can protect sensitive safety information from disclosure in…
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Nationwide Permits/Clean Water Act: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Solicitation of Input on Potential Future Changes
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) published a March 16th Federal Register notice stating that it is seeking input on ways to increase the efficiency of the Clean Water Act nationwide permit (“NWP”) program. See 91 Fed. Reg. 1259. The Corps states it will consider such input in…
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Gold Mining Operation/Clean Water Act: Earthworks Petition for Review Challenging Idaho Department of Environmental Quality NPDES Permit
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Earthworks and three other environmental organizations filed a February 27th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the Idaho Department of Environmental Quality (“IDEQ”) challenging what is denominated the Stibnite Gold Project (“Project”). The Petition addresses the Idaho Pollution Discharge…
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Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Fort Smith Industrial Sand Mining Facility Enter into Consent Administrative Order
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and Covia ISP, Inc. (“Covia”) entered into a March 11th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Air Act Title V Permit. See Case #: CAO-25-0106. The CAO provides…
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Perchlorate/Safe Drinking Water Act: Institute of Hazardous Materials Management Comments on U.S. EPA's Proposed Primary Drinking Water Regulation
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Institute of Hazardous Materials Management (“IHMM”) submitted March 2nd comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) regarding EPA’s proposed Safe Drinking Water Act National Primary Drinking Water Regulation (“NPDWR”) for perchlorate. EPA published in the January 6th…
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