Endangered Species Act/Northern Long-Eared Bat: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Proposes to Reclassify Listing to Endangered Status
March 29, 2022
by Jordan P. Wimpy
On Wednesday, March 23, 2022, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service (the Service) published a rule proposing to reclassify the northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), a bat species found in all or portions of 37 U.S. States (including Arkansas), the District of Columbia, and Canada, as an…
Navigating the NPDES Permitting Process for Water Reuse Projects/Strategies to Enable Recycling and Protect Water Quality: March 2022 Report
A number of water quality organizations in coordination with the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) developed a March 2022 report titled: Navigating the NPDES Permitting Process for Water Reuse Projects/Strategies to Enable Recycling and Protect Water Quality (“Report”) …
Stormwater Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Lancaster, Massachusetts, Construction Site Owner Enter into Consent Agreement
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and U-Haul Co. of Western Massachusetts, Inc., (“U-Haul”) entered into a March 14th Consent Agreement and Final Order (“CAFO”) addressing an alleged violation of the Clean Water Act. See Docket No.: CWA-01-2022-0007. The CAFO provides that…
Hazardous Waste Management/Rule No. 23: Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment - Division of Environmental Quality Addresses Appropriate Submission of Contingency Plan
Ms. Penny M. Wilson, CPM, authored a March 25th memorandum submitted to the Arkansas Department to the Arkansas Department of Energy & Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) Hazardous Waste Generator email list addressing what she described as a: . . . reoccurring…
Endangered Species Act/Clean Water Act: Center for Biological Diversity Challenges U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Water Quality Criteria for Cadmium
The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) filed a Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (“Complaint”) in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona against the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) alleging a violation of the Endangered Species Act…