Provisional COVID-19 Enforcement Guidance: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environmental Quality Notes Continuance/Extension
Secretary Becky Keogh of the Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment noted in a July 2nd memorandum that the Division of Environmental Quality’s (“DEQ”) Provisional COVID-19 Enforcement Guidance (“Arkansas Guidance”) remains in place. The reasons for the issuance of this memorandum was the…
Monumental SCOTUS Ruling Has Potential to Alter Legal and Regulatory Regimes in Eastern Oklahoma and Western Arkansas
Yesterday, the United States Supreme Court clouded the jurisdiction of the entire eastern half of Oklahoma in McGirt v. Oklahoma, including the state’s power to enforce laws within the City of Tulsa, by holding that certain Native American lands established by Congress would remain subject to…
Greenhouse Gas/Carbon-Sequestration Markets: Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020
United States Senators Braun, Stabenow, Graham, and Whitehouse have introduced legislation titled: The Growing Climate Solutions Act of 2020 (“Act”) The Act has been described as a bipartisan effort to help develop viable greenhouse gas (“GHG”) and ecosystem markets. The Act establishes, through…
Survey of EPA On-Scene Coordinators and Managers Regarding COVID-19: US EPA Office of Inspector General Project Notification
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a June 15th Project Notification titled: Survey of EPA On-Scene Coordinators and Managers Regarding COVID-19 (“Notification”) The Notification is transmitted from Tina Lovingood, Director, OIG…
Semi-Annual Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions: Projected U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Activities
The Trump Administration released the Spring edition of the semi-annual: Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions (“Agenda”) Federal agencies twice a year produce in combination a comprehensive report describing regulations currently under development or recently completed. In…