Storm Water Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Ocean Springs Development Enter into Agreed Order
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Little Bluff, LLC, (“Little Bluff”) entered into a May 4th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged failure to obtain a storm water permit. See Order No. 7037 20. The AO provides that Little Bluff is engaged in a residential…
Harmful Algal Blooms: Beaver Watershed Alliance Webinar - August 20th
The Beaver Watershed Alliance (“BWA”) is holding as part of a speaker series a webinar titled: Harmful Algal Blooms (“Webinar”) The Webinar will address harmful algal blooms (“HABs”) in Arkansas. It will address: Case studies on Lake Hamilton and Lake Fayetteville Harmful Algal Bloom Management…
Oversight of States Implementation of Municipal Solid Waste Landfill Air Emissions Regulations: July 30th U.S. EPA Office of Inspector General Report
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Office of Inspector General (“OIG”) issued a July 30th report titled: EPA Needs to Improve Oversight of How States Implement Air Emissions Regulations for Municipal Solid Waste Landfills (“Report”) See Report No. 20-P-0236. OIG undertook…
Carolina Madtom - Neuse River Waterdog/Endangered Species Act: Center for Biological Diversity Notice of Intent to Sue U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for Alleged Failure to Make Listing/Critical Habitat Determination
The Center for Biological Diversity (“CBD”) sent a July 22nd Sixty-Day Notice of Violations of the Endangered Species Act (“ESA”) to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service (“Service”). The Notice of Intent to Sue (“Notice”) alleges that the Service has failed to make timely final listing and…
NPDES/Clean Water Act: New Hampshire Coal-Fired Power Plant Files U.S. EPA Environmental Appeals Board Petition Challenging Certain Permit Conditions
GSP Merrimack, LLC, (“GSP”) filed a July 27th Petition for Review (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Environmental Appeals Board (“EAB”) challenging certain conditions in a Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) permit…