Washington County Open-Cut Mining Facility: Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission Request for Hearing Submitted Addressing Permit Modification
February 20, 2023
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
Several Requests for Hearing were filed before the Arkansas Pollution Control & Ecology Commission (“Commission”) addressing an application seeking to modify a permit for an open-cut mining operation in Washington County, Arkansas. The Requests for Hearing address the application filed by…
Wastewater Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and City of Booneville Enter into Agreed Order
February 20, 2023
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and City of Booneville, Mississippi, (“Booneville”) entered into a February 7th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit. See Order No. 7234…
Interstate Transport/Ozone: Arkansas Petitions Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals Challenging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency State Implementation Plan Disapproval
February 17, 2023
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
As noted in a February 14th post, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a final rule disapproving State Implementation Plan (“SIP”) submissions for 19 states regarding interstate transport for the 2015 8-hour National Ambient Air Quality Standards. Arkansas’s SIP is one…
2023 Electric-Generating Capacity: U.S. Energy Information Administration Predicts More Than 50 Percent of New Facilities Will Be Solar
February 17, 2023
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The United Stated Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) published a February 6th report titled: More Than Half of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2023 Will Be Solar (“Report”) The Report projects that of the 54.5 gigawatts (“GW”) that developers plan to add of new utility-scale…
Air Enforcement: Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Proposed Order/Civil Penalty Addressing Nashville Clay Company
February 17, 2023
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board (“Board”) issued a January 26th proposed Technical Secretary’s Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty (“Order”) to Kentucky-Tennessee Clay Company (“KTCC”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See Case No. APC22-0165. The proposed Order addresses…