Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Sebastian County Natural Gas Compressor Station Operator Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Enable Midstream Partners, LP – Ursula Compressor Station (“Enable”) entered into a July 18th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an air permit. See LIS No. 23-058…
Solid Waste Removal Service/Temporary Waste Projects: Carroll County, Arkansas, Circuit Court Complaint Filed Alleging City of Holiday Island Unconstitutional Monopoly
Steven Hedrick and X-Dumpsters (collectively “Plaintiffs”) filed an August 22nd Complaint in Carroll County, Arkansas, Circuit Court against the City of Holiday Island, Arkansas, alleging a violation of civil rights under the Arkansas Constitution. See Case CV No. 2023-85. The Complaint alleges…
Alternate PCB Extraction Methods: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Promulgates Final Rule Amending Cleanup/Disposal Regulations
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a final rule in the August 29th Federal Register finalizing what it described as an: . . . expanded set of extraction and determinative methods that can be used to characterize and verify the cleanup of polychlorinated biphenyls…
Air Enforcement: Missouri Department of Natural Resources and Clay County Rock Crushing Plant Enter into Administrative Order on Consent
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources (“MDNR”) and Liberty Aggregates, LLC, (“Liberty”) entered into a July 17th Administrative Order on Consent (“AOC”) addressing alleged violations of the Missouri Air Regulations. See No. APCP-2022-049. The AOC provides that Liberty operates a rock…
Waters of the United States/Clean Water Act: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency/Corps of Engineers Final Rule Addressing Sackett Decision
The United States Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Corps of Engineers (collectively “EPA”) issued a pre-Federal Register publication final rule on August 29th revising the Clean Water Act definition of waters of the United States (“WOTUS”). The rule announced yesterday responds…