Priority Actions for Advancing Water Quality Trading: National Network on Water Quality Dialogue
The National Network on Water Quality Trading (“Network”) published a report titled: Breaking Down Barriers: Priority Actions for Advancing Water Quality Trading (October 2018) (“Report”) The Network describes itself as a “dialogue among diverse organizations representing agriculture, wastewater…
Installation of Reciprocal Internal Combustion Engines/Tucson, Arizona, Generating Station: U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Addresses Challenge to PSD Permit
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) addressed in a December 3rd decision a Petition for Review (“Petition”) the Sierra Club filed challenging a Clean Air Act Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”) permit that was issued to the…
Arkansas State Marketing Board for Recyclables: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Announces December 12th Meeting
The Arkansas State Marketing Board for Recyclables and Compliance Advisory Panel (“Board”) has scheduled a meeting for December 12th in Little Rock, Arkansas. As the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) notes in its news release, the Board meets on a quarterly basis. The Board is…
Minnesota Nonferrous Metallic Mineral Mining Rules: Environmental Organizations File Judicial Challenge
The Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness and a number of other environmental organizations (collectively “FBWW”) filed a December 3rd petition in the Minnesota Court of Appeals to certain Minnesota Department of Natural Resources(“MDNR”) rules. The petition seeks a declaration that MDNR’s…
Clean Water Act Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality Faulkner County Judicial Action Against Wastewater Treatment Facility
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) filed a November 28th Complaint in the Circuit Court of Faulkner County, Arkansas, against Flushing Meadows Water Treatment, Inc. (“FMWTI”) alleging certain violations of the: Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act Arkansas Pollution…