Toxics Release Inventory/Community Right-to-Know Act: PEER Petitions U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Include Waste Combustors/Incinerators
The Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility and Energy Justice Network (collectively “PEER”) submitted an April 3rd document to EPA titled: Petition for Rulemaking Pursuant to the Administrative Procedure Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, Requiring that…
Implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act/U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works Hearing: Perspectives on the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act
The United States Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works held a March 15th hearing titled: Implementing Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act: Perspectives on the Drinking Water and Wastewater Infrastructure Act (“Hearing”) The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (“IIJA”) has been…
Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Beedeville Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of Beedeville, Arkansas (“Beedeville”) entered into a February 16th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge…
Arkansas Environmental Personnel Moves: Penny Wilson (Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Compliance Branch Manager [Office of Land Resources]) Schedules Retirement
Ms. Penny Wilson of the Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) recently announced that she will retire at the end of April. Penny currently serves as the Compliance Branch Manager in the Office of Land Resources. Prior to beginning at what was then…
Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations/National Environmental Policy Act: Federal Court Addresses Challenge to Farm Service Agency Categorical Exclusion for Loans
A United States District Court (District of Columbia) (“Court”) in a March 4th Opinion addressed the Farm Service Agency’s (“FSA”) compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). See Dakota Rural Action, et al. v. United States Department of Agriculture, et al., 2023 WL 2770390. The…