Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and White Hall Pulp and Paper Mill Center into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Twin Rivers Pine Bluff, LLC (“Twin Rivers”) entered into a November 21st Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See LIS No. 23-094. The CAO provides that…
Arkansas Environmental Personnel Moves: Demetria Kimbrough, MPH, Named Associate Director of Air Quality, Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality
Ms. Demetria Kimbrough, MPH, has been named Associate Director of the Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality’s (“DEQ”) Office of Air Quality. Ms. Kimbrough replaces David Witherow, P.E., who joined the Arkansas Electric Cooperative Corporation and Arkansas…
Technical Corrections/Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements/Pharmaceuticals/Definition of Solid Waste: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Partial Withdrawal of Direct Final Rule
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a direct final rule on August 9th denominated: Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule, the Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rule, and the Definition of Solid Waste Rule; Technical Corrections See 88 Fed. Reg. 54086. The direct…
America Leads the Way/Our History as the Global Leader Reducing Emissions: U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee Hearing
The Subcommittee on Environment, Manufacturing, and Critical Materials of the United States House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee (“Committee”) held a November 29th hearing titled: America Leads the Way: Our History as the Global Leader at Reducing Emissions (“Hearing”) The stated…
Conservation Easement/Endangered Species Act: Citizen Suit Action Challenges U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Biological Opinion Evaluating Impacts of Water Use
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit (“Ninth Circuit”) addressed in a December 4th Opinion an issue arising out of the federal Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). See Center for Biological Diversity, et al. v. United States Fish and Wildlife Service, et al., No. 22-15809. A key…