Lithium Batteries/U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Request for Information Regarding Best Practices/Collection/Recycling/Labeling: SWANA and Three Other Organizations File Joint Comments
The Solid Waste Association of North America (“SWANA”) and three other organizations filed joint comments addressing questions posed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in the following document: RFI Development of Best Practices for Collection of Batteries to be Recycled…
Coal Mine Methane/Doctrine of Correlative Rights: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Whether a Vacuum Pump Can Be Utilized for Extraction
The United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit (“Seventh Circuit”) addressed in an August 11th Opinion a question regarding the extraction of coal mine methane. See Finite Resources, Ltd., et al. v. DTE Methane Resources, et al., 2022, WL 3274105. The question considered was whether the…
Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Arkansas Department of Corrections Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ’) and the Arkansas Department of Corrections (“ADC”) entered into a July 22nd Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination…
Clean Water Act/Section 404: Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida Challenge U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Delegation to Florida
The Miccosukee Tribe of Indians of Florida (“Miccosukee”) filed an August 4th Complaint in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) challenging the federal agency’s delegation of the Section 404 Clean…
Hazardous Waste Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and Operator of Former Louisiana Fertilizer Manufacturing Facility Enter into Consent Decree
The United States Department of Justice (“DOJ”) on behalf of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality (“LDEQ”) entered into a Consent Decree (“CD”) with PCS Nitrogen Fertilizer, L.P. (“PCS”) to remedy certain alleged hazardous waste issues at…