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Arkansas Environmental Personnel Moves: Tammie Hynum (Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Office of Land Resources [Quality Assurance Manager]) Announces Retirement
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Ms. Tammie Hynum of the Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) has announced that she will retire at the end of April. Tammie currently serves as the DEQ Office of Land Resources Quality Assurance Manager. Tammie has worked for DEQ for the past 32…
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Waters of the United States/Clean Water Act: United States District Judge (District of North Dakota) Enjoins Enforcement of Rule in 24 States (Including Arkansas)
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
United States District Judge Daniel L. Hovland (District of North Dakota) issued an April 12th Order granting plaintiffs’ Motion for Preliminary Injunction (“Order”) addressing a challenge to a final rule issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency and United States Corps of…
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Environmental Justice: Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Draft Guidance Memorandum Addressing the Permitting Process
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) issued a draft document titled: Guidance Memo No. 23-XXXX-Environmental Justice in the Permitting Process (“Guidance”) DEQ states that the Guidance is designed to create procedures to accomplish the goals set forth in the previously enacted…
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Operation of Bonnet Carre´ Spillway/National Environmental Policy Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Whether Army Corps of Engineers Should Have Prepared a Supplemental EIS
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Co-Author: Madalyn Goolsby A group of Mississippi municipalities and associations filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court (S.D. Miss.) against the United States Army Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) for allegedly violating the National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”). See Harrison County…
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Effluent Guidelines/Clean Water Act: Waterkeeper Petition Challenging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Alleged Failure to Revise Seven Industrial Point Source Categories
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Waterkeeper Alliance and 11 other environmental organizations (collectively “Waterkeeper”) filed an April 11th Petition for Review (“Petition”) in the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit alleging a failure by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to not undertake…
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