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Arkansas Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks: August 25th Meeting (Via Teleconference)
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
As noted in a previous blog post, Arkansas operates a petroleum storage tank trust fund that provides reimbursement for eligible storage tanks that suffer corrective action requirements and third party damage claims due to a release of petroleum. The Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks…
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Ambient Water Quality Criteria to Address Nutrient Pollution in Lakes and Reservoirs: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Public Notices Available Document
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published in the August 13th Federal Register a Notice of Availability of the following document: Ambient Water Quality Criteria to Address Nutrient Pollution in Lakes and Reservoirs (“Document”) EPA describes these recommended criteria…
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Gross Reservoir and Dam Expansion/Federal Preemption: Denver Water Lawsuit Challenges Boulder County Regulatory Authority
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The City and County of Denver, acting by and through its Board of Water Commissioners (“Denver Water”) filed a Complaint in the United States District Court for the District of Colorado addressing what it alleges are Boulder County’s: . . . unlawful attempts to regulate Denver Water’s expansion of…
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Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Malvern Clay Brick Manufacturing Facility Enter into Consent Administrative Order
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Acme Brick Company (“ABC”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See LIS No. 21-073. The CAO provides that ABC owns and operates a clay…
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Whole Effluent Toxicity/Clean Water Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Challenge to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Nonbinding Guidance
Category: Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in an August 5th Opinion a judicial challenge to nonbinding guidance that had been issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”). See Southern California Alliance of Publicly Owned Treatment…
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