Northwest Arkansas/Eastern Oklahoma Water Quality: Illinois River Watershed Partnership Announces Online Learning Center
The Illinois River Watershed Partnership (“IRWP”) announced what it describes as an Online Learning Center. IRWP states that for the next four weeks it will: . . . be presenting the most pressing topics to our local water quality in Northwest Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma. The IRWP indicates…
PSD Guidance/Clean Air Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Whether Document Constitutes Final Agency Action
Co-Author: Austin Reed The United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit (“Court”) addressed whether a guidance document issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) constituted final agency action for purposes of judicial review. See Sierra Club v. EPA, No. 18-1167…
COVID-19/Impacts on Water Sector: American Water Works Association Survey
The American Water Works Association (“AWWA”) undertook a survey of member utilities and other sector organizations to gauge the impacts of COVID-19 on the water sector. AWWA states the survey was conducted online and encompassed the period March 25-30, 2020. The organization summarized the…
Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and West Memphis Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and the City of West Memphis (“City”) entered into a Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”)…
Distributed Generation: Kansas Supreme Court Addresses Challenge to Rate Design
Co-Author: Austin Reed The Kansas Supreme Court (“Court”) in an April 3rd Opinion addressed a challenge to a utility rate increase and rate design change. See In the Matter of the Joint Application of Westar Energy, Inc., No. 120,436, 2020 WL 1646814 (Kan. Apr. 3, 2020). A focus of the decision was…