Climate-Related Financial Risk 2021: Financial Stability Oversight Council Report
The Financial Stability Oversight Council (“FSOC”) issued a document on October 21st titled: Report on Climate-Related Financial Risk 2021 (“Report”) The Report was issued in response to the Biden Administration’s Executive Order 14030 titled “Climate-Related Financial Risk”. The FSOC was…
Arkansas Plant Board: November 5th Quarterly Meeting Scheduled
The Arkansas Plant Board (“Board”) has scheduled its next quarterly meeting for November 5th. The meeting will be held at the Arkansas Department of Agriculture at 9:30 a.m. Attendance via Zoom is an option. The agenda lists the following 13 members who have been appointed to serve on the Board for…
Landfill Gas Lease Agreement: New York Court Addresses Renewable Energy Tax Credits
Co-Author: Steven Cox The New York Supreme Court (Albany County) (“Court”) addressed in a September 29th Opinion a dispute arising out of a landfill lease agreement between the City of Albany, New York (“Albany”) and Albany Energy (“AE”). See City of Albany, New York v. NEO Albany, et al., 2021 WL…
PFAS/RCRA: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to Initiate Hazardous Waste Listing
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) responded to a June 23rd petition by the State of New Mexico that requested a listing of per and polyfluorinated substances (“PFAS”) as Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) Subtitle C Hazardous Waste. EPA Administrator Regan in an…
Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Conway County Natural Gas Compression Station Operator Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and DeSoto Gathering Company, LLC (“DeSoto”), entered into an October 5th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of an air permit. See LIS No. 21-110. The CAO provides that…