Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Stuttgart Enter Into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“ADEQ”) and the City of Stuttgart, Arkansas entered into a May 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System…
Application of the RCRA to Telecommunications Cables: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Interpretive Letter
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Resource Conservation and Recovery addressed in a July 23rd interpretive letter: … the application of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) to telecommunications cables that "remain[] in their original place of…
Arkansas Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks: August 28th Meeting
As noted in a previous blog post, Arkansas operates a petroleum storage tank trust fund that provides reimbursement for eligible storage tanks that suffer corrective action requirements and third-party damage claims due to a release of petroleum. The Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks…
Indirect Discharge/Wastewater Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Jasper Chicken Processing Facility Enter into Consent Order
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Mar-Jac Poultry AL, LLC (“MJ”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of a State Indirect Discharge (“SID”) Permit. The CO provides that MJ operates a chicken processing facility in Jasper, Alabama. ADEM is…
PFOA/PFOS/CERCLA: D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Upholds U.S. EPA Final Rule Designating as Hazardous Substances
The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (“D.C. Circuit”) addressed in an August 18th Opinion a challenge to the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s (“EPA”) designation of Perfluorooctanoic Acid (“PFOA”) and Perfluorooctanesulfonic Acid (“PFOS”) as…