2025 Arkansas Solid Waste Association of North America Annual Meeting/Update: Randy Thurman, Government Solutions, LLC - Solid Waste Legislative Update
September 3, 2025
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
Randy Thurman undertook a presentation at the August 20, 2025, Arkansas Solid Waste Association of North America (“SWANA”) Annual Meeting/Update in Conway, Arkansas titled: Solid Waste Legislative Update (“Update”). Randy is a Partner with Government Solutions, LLC, handling a variety of…
Effluent Guidelines/Meat and Poultry Products Category: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Announces Decision to Impose No Additional Wastewater Discharge Requirements
September 3, 2025
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued an August 30th news release announcing a final action to impose no additional Clean Water Act wastewater discharge regulations on meat and poultry processing facilities. On January 23, 2024, EPA had published a proposed regulation to…
Transportation/Hazardous Materials: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Interpretive Letter Clarifying the Infectious Substance Requirements
September 3, 2025
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The United States Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in an August 7th Interpretive Letter the application of the federal Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) to the transportation of Division 6.2 (Infectious substance) materials. See Reference No. 25-0063…
Arkansas Ambient Air Monitoring Network: Annual Network Plan for 2025-2026
September 2, 2025
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) submitted on August 6th to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) a document titled: ARKANSAS AMBIENT AIR MONITORING NETWORK – Annual Network Plan for 2025-2026 (“Plan”). The Plan was…
Status of State Environmental Agency Budgets/Fiscal Years 2020-2023: Environmental Council of the States Report
September 2, 2025
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Environmental Council of the States (“ECOS”) issued an August 28 report titled: GREEN REPORT – STATUS OF STATE ENVIRONMENTAL AGENCY BUDGETS – Fiscal Years 2020 to 2023 (“Report”). The Report is authored by Connor MacCartney and Julia Henderson. ECOS describes itself as the: …national…