Cobalt Contamination/Leased Facility: Federal District Court Addresses Motion to Dismiss Cost Recovery Action
Co-Author: Austin Reed The United States District Court for the Northern District of California (“Court”) addressed in a November 18th Order a cost recovery action involving cobalt contamination. See Quantum Labs, Inc. v. Maxim Integrated Prods. Inc., No. 18-cv-07598-BLF, 2019 WL 6117481 (N.D. Cal…
Agricultural Conservation Easement Program: U.S. Department of Agriculture Publishes Interim Rule
January 22, 2020
by Jordan P. Wimpy
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (“USDA”) recent efforts to update the Farm Bill’s Title II conservation programs continued into the 2020 year. USDA has issued since early December a number of interim final rules to update the nation’s conservation programs which include: the Conservation…
Oil Spill/SPCC Enforcement: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Beltsville, Maryland Vegetable Oil Recycler Enter into Consent Agreement
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) and Storm Oil, LLC (“Storm”) entered into a December 30th Consent Agreement (“CA”) addressing alleged violations of Section 311 of the Clean Water Act. See Docket No. CWA-03-2020-0003. The CA provides that Storm is the owner and/or operator…
MS4/NPDES Permit: City of Little Rock Request for Commission Review and Adjudicatory Hearing
The City of Little Rock, Arkansas (“Little Rock”) filed a January 16th Request for Commission Review and Adjudicatory Hearing (“Request”) before the Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) challenging a Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System…
Manifesting Non-Creditable Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals/New Four Character Code: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency RCRA Interpretive Guidance
The United States Environmental Agency (“EPA”) released December 19, 2019 interpretive guidance titled: Manifesting Non-Creditable Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals – New Four Character Code (“Guidance”) The document was transmitted from Barnes Johnson, Director, Office of Resource Conservation…