United States Environmental Protection Agency/National Environmental Policy Act: Notice of Adoption of Categorical Exclusions
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) published a Notice in the March 22nd Federal Register that it is adopting two National Environmental Policy Act (“NEPA”) Categorical Exclusions (“CE”). See 89 Fed. Reg. 20470. The two CEs are described as: Drop-off, collection, and transfer…
Air Enforcement: Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board Proposed Technical Secretary's Order Addressing East Tennessee State University
The Tennessee Air Pollution Control Board ("Board") issued to East Tennessee State University ("East Tennessee State") on January 5th a document styled: Technical Secretary's Order and Assessment of Civil Penalty ("Order") East Tennessee State is stated to operate at a facility in Johnson…
National Priority List/Superfund: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Adds Five Sites
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) has added five sites to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (“Superfund”) National Priority List (“NPL”). The five sites include: Former Exide Technologies Laureldale; Laureldale, Pennsylvania Acme…
Repealing Clean Energy Credits/Macroeconomic Assessment of the GOP Proposal: Institute for Macroeconomic and Policy Analysis Report
The Institute for Macroeconomic & Policy Analysis (“Institute”) released on March 11th a Report (“Report”) titled: Repealing the Clean Energy Credits: A Macroeconomic Assessment of the GOP Proposal The authors of the Report include: Ignacio González Juan Montecino Vasudeva Ramaswamy The…
Arkansas Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks: March 27th Meeting
As noted in a previous blog post, Arkansas operates a petroleum storage tank trust fund that provides reimbursement for eligible storage tanks that suffer corrective action requirements and third-party damage claims due to a release of petroleum. The Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks…