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Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee October 12th Meeting
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Beautiful Buffalo River Action Committee (“Committee”) has scheduled an October 12th public information meeting. The meeting is stated to be the fourth and final meeting of this organization. The purpose of the meeting will be to discuss a voluntary watershed-based management plan for the…
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Resource Conservation and Recovery Act Guidance: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Addresses Unused Cigars/Cigarettes
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in a July 19th letter addressed whether: . . . unused cigarettes and cigars made from tobacco are regulated as hazardous waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) regulations when discarded. EPA was responding to a…
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Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality and Hope County, Arkansas Aluminum Foil Rolling Mill Enter into Consent Administrative Order
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and JW Aluminum Company (“JAC”) entered into a September 8th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See LIS No. 17-063. The CAO provides that JAC own and operates an aluminum foil rolling mill…
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Challenge to NPDES Permit Conditions: Union County, Arkansas Chemical Manufacturing Facility Request for Adjudicatory Hearing Commission Review
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
El Dorado Chemical Company (“EDCC”) filed a September 27th Request for Adjudicatory Hearing before the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission. The request addresses a Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit issued to the facility on August 30th…
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Clean Air Act: Maryland Attorney General Federal District Lawsuit Alleging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Failure to Act on Section 126 Petition
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (“AG”) filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Maryland alleging a violation of the Clean Air Act by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”). The Maryland AG alleges that EPA has failed to act on a Section…
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