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2018 Environmental Education Grants Program: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces $100,000 Awarded to Woolsey Incubator Farm (Fayetteville, Arkansas)
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced in an October 25th news release it has selected the National Appropriate Technology Center’s incubator farm training facility in Fayetteville, Arkansas to receive a grant of $100,000. The Woolsey Incubator Farm will receive the…
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Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Blue Mountain, Mississippi Facility Enter into Agreed Order
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Blue Mountain Production Company (“Blue Mountain”) entered into a September 26th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Title V Operating Permit (“Permit”). See Order No. 6896 18. The Blue Mountain facility is stated…
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U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) Public Notices 404 Permit Application: Proposed Pulaski County, Arkansas, Parking Lot/Travel Trailer Project
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Army Corps of Engineers (Vicksburg District) (“Corps”) issued an October 25th Public Notice stating that an application had been received for a Section 404 Clean Water Act permit (i.e., to discharge dredged and/or fill material into waters of the United States) in regards to a…
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Train Derailment/Residential Evacuation: Federal Court Considers Applicability of Hazardous Materials Act Preemption Provision to Class Action
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Co-Author: Jon Mader The United States District Court for the Western District of Pennsylvania (“Court”) addressed in an October 1st opinion whether the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (“HMTA” or “Act”) preempted state tort law claims in relation to a train derailment that resulted in the…
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Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Office of Air Quality: Quarterly Newsletter/Fall 2018
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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. The Newsletter addresses topics such as: Associate Director’s Update (Stuart Spencer) Noting two publications…
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