Arkansas Natural Resources Commission: September 28th Meeting Scheduled
September 19, 2022
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Arkansas Natural Resources Commission has scheduled its next meeting for September 28th at 9:30 a.m. The meeting will be held in the board room at the Arkansas Department of Agriculture, 1 Natural Resources Drive, Little Rock, AR 72205. The agenda includes the following: Business …
Hazardous Waste Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Geneva County Aluminum HVAC Component Manufacturer Enter into Consent Order
September 19, 2022
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Ruskin Company, Inc. (“RCI”) entered into an August 24th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of the Alabama Hazardous Waste Regulations. See Consent Order No. 22- XXX-CHW. The CO provides that RCI operates an aluminum…
Solar Tax Benefits Now Directly Available to State and Local Governments and 501(c)(3) Organizations
This blog post was originally published on September 16th, 2022 and then updated on April 28th, 2023. On August 16, 2022, President Biden signed the Inflation Reduction Act (or IRA), which provides significant tax and other incentives for qualifying renewable energy facilities including solar…
Consent Decree Interpretation/Clean Water Act: Federal Appellate Court Addresses Dispute Between Fort Smith and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
September 16, 2022
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The United States Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit (“Eighth Circuit”) in a September 14th Opinion addressed a dispute between the City of Fort Smith (“Fort Smith”) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) regarding a Clean Water Act Consent Decree . See United States of…
Endangered Species Act/Tricolored Bat: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Services Proposes Endangered Listing
September 16, 2022
by Jordan P. Wimpy
On Wednesday, September 14, 2022, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (the Service) published a rule proposing to list the tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus) as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act (ESA, or the Act). The tricolored bat occurs in all or portions of Arkansas and 38…