Guidelines for End-of-Life/Recycling of Lithium Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems: Energy Storage Association Corporate Responsibility Initiative
September 10, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Energy Storage Association (“ESA”) issued what it describes as a “Corporate Responsibility Initiative” titled: Guidelines for End-of-Life and Recycling of Lithium Ion Battery Energy Storage Systems (“Guidelines”) The stated purpose of the Guidelines is to: address the end-of-life (EOL)…
Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Pulaski County Steel Pipe Manufacturing Facility Enter into Consent Administrative Order
September 10, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Welspun Tubular, LLC, (“Welspun”) entered into an August 25th Consent Administrator Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See LIS No. 20-168. The CAO provides that Welspun owns…
Financing Resilient Agriculture: September 2020 Environmental Defense Fund Report
September 9, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Environmental Defense Fund (“EDF”) issued a September 2020 report titled: Financing Resilient Agriculture – How Agricultural Lenders Can Reduce Climate Risk and Help Farmers Build Resilience (“Report”) EDF describes the Report as characterizing climate risks to the agricultural lending sector…
Endangered Species Act/U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Issues Final Rule: American Burying Beetle Downlisted from Endangered to Threatened
September 9, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) issued a September 3rd final rule reclassifying (i.e., downlisting) the American burying beetle (“ABB”) from endangered to threatened on the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife. The ABB’s range…
Beaver Lake Watershed: Beaver Watershed Alliance Schedules Annual Symposium/September 24th
September 9, 2020
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Beaver Watershed Alliance (“BWA”) has scheduled its Beaver lake Watershed Annual Symposium (“Symposium”). The format will be held on September 24th as a Zoom webinar. BWA states that the Symposium will feature: Landscape-scale conservation topics Agricultural best management practices for…
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