Air Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Benton County Medical Complex Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and Mercy Health System of NWA (“Mercy”) entered into a July 7th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Arkansas air regulation. See LIS No. 21-065. The CAO provides…
Sources of United States Electricity/2020: U.S. Energy Information Administration Ranks Renewables as Second
The United States Energy Information Administration (“EIA”) announced in a July 28th article that: Renewables Became the Second-Most Prevalent U.S. Electricity Source in 2020 (“Article”) EIA defines renewable energy sources as including: Wind Hydroelectric Solar Biomass Geothermal energy …
Construction/Demolition Material Recovery/Recycling: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and LafargeHolcim Announce Cooperative Research Agreement
The United States Corps of Engineers (“Corps”) and LafargeHolcim (“Lafarge”) announced on July 22nd a cooperative agreement research project (“Project”) to study: . . . how construction and demolition (C&D) materials can be used for energy recovery and mineral recycling. Lafarge’s subsidiary…
Stormwater/Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and Stuttgart Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Stuttgart, Arkansas, entered into a May 5th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged Clean Water Act violations. See LIS No. 21-035. The CAO provides that Stuttgart, Arkansas…
Clean Fill Facility/Zoning: Pennsylvania Court Addresses Whether Activity Constitutes Violation
Co-Author: Grace Wewers A Pennsylvania court examined in a May 26th Opinion whether a town’s zoning ordinance prohibited a Clean Fill Facility (“Facility”) in a certain district. See Greenview Properties 862, LLC v. Hamilton Township Zoning Board, No. 799 C.D. 2020, 2021 WL 2135951 (Pa. Commw. Ct…