Blog

Cleanup and Technical Assistance/Brownfields: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces $3 Million in Funding (Including Three Arkansas Selectees)
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) announced in a May 25th news release that it is providing $215 million to expedite the assessment and cleanup of Brownfield sites. EPA states it selected 262 communities to receive 267 grants in competitive EPA Brownfields funding through…
Read Full Post »
Pretreatment Enforcement/Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Woodridge, New York, Egg Processing Facility Enter into Consent Agreement
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Newburg Egg Processing Corp. (“Newburg”) entered into a May 19th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing alleged violations of the Clean Water Act pretreatment requirements. See Docket No. CWA-02-2023-3401. The CAFO…
Read Full Post »
Recreational Water Quality Criteria/Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Releases Second Five-Year Report
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a May 2023 document titled: Report on the Second Five-Year Review of EPA’s Recreational Water Quality Criteria (“Report”) EPA states that the Report constitutes its second five-year review of the agency’s current Recreational Water…
Read Full Post »
Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Town of Wesson Enter into Agreed Order
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Town of Wesson, Mississippi (“Wesson”) entered into a May 5th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit. See Order No. 7252 23. The AO…
Read Full Post »
Alternative Daily Cover/Mississippi County Class I Landfill: Request to Use dried Drop Box Steel Sludge
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Mississippi County, Arkansas, submitted a March 2nd request to the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) to continue the use of dried Drop Box sludge (“Sludge”) from the Nucor – Yamato steel mill as an alternative daily cover (“ADC”). The Sludge…
Read Full Post »
< Newer Page 372/1302 Older >
The Between the Lines blog is made available by Mitchell, Williams, Selig, Gates & Woodyard, P.L.L.C. and the law firm publisher. The blog site is for educational purposes only, as well as to give general information and a general understanding of the law. This blog is not intended to provide specific legal advice. Use of this blog site does not create an attorney client relationship between you and Mitchell Williams or the blog site publisher. The Between the Lines blog site should not be used as a substitute for legal advice from a licensed professional attorney in your state.