Arkansas Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board: January 26th Meeting Scheduled
The Arkansas Abandoned Pesticide Advisory Board (“Board”) is scheduled to meet on January 26th. The meeting will be held at 1:30 at the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, 1 Natural Resources Drive in Little Rock. The Arkansas Department of Agriculture describes the Arkansas Abandoned Pesticide…
Title V Objection/Clean Air Act: Environmental Organizations Petition to Object Addressing Five Alabama Department of Environmental Management Permits
Five environmental organizations filed a Petition (“Petition”) requesting that the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator object to the issuance of Title V Renewal Permits (“Permits”) for the following five facilities: Plains Marketing LP (Mobile County, AL), Permit…
Arkansas Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks: January 25th 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…
5-Year Status Reviews/Endangered Species Act: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Initiation for Five Listed Species (One Related to Arkansas)
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”) announced in the January 13th Federal Register that it has initiated status reviews for five animal and plant species under the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”). See 88 Fed. Reg. 2368. One of the specie’s range includes the State of Arkansas…
Update Part 3: The Growing Trend of Anti-Boycott Laws and the Effect on Public Finance – Is Arkansas Next?
January 18, 2023
by John S. Bryant
We recently posted a note regarding the filing of Senate Bill 41 which would require the divestment of State and local public funds from financial services providers that “discriminate without a reasonable business purpose against a business that provides services or products to the energy, fossil…