Wastewater Enforcement: Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment - Division of Environmental Quality and City of Mayflower Enter into Consent Administrative Order
The Arkansas Department of Energy and Environment – Division of Environmental Quality (“DEQ”) and City of Mayflower (“Mayflower”) entered into a June 26th Consent Administrative Order (“CAO”) addressing alleged violations of a Clean Water Act National Pollution Discharge Elimination System…
Methylene Chloride/Toxic Substances Control Act: Environmental Labor Organizations File Judicial Petition Challenging U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Risk Decision
The Sierra Club and a number of other environmental and labor organizations filed a July 16th Petition for Review (“Petition”) addressing a United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) decision under the Toxic Substances Control Act regarding methylene chloride. The decision challenges…
Arkansas Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks: July 29, 2020 Meeting (Teleconference)
As noted in a previous blog post, Arkansas operates a petroleum storage tank trust fund that provides reimbursement for eligible storage tanks that suffer corrective action requirements and third party damage claims due to a release of petroleum. The Advisory Committee on Petroleum Storage Tanks…
Transportation/Hazardous Materials Regulation: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Interpretive Letter Addressing Loading/Unloading Question
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (“PHMSA”) in a May 26th interpretive letter addressed the applicability of the Hazardous Materials Regulation (“HMR”) to loading/unloading a cargo tank motor vehicle (“CTMV”). PHMSA was responding to an October 16, 2019, email request from…
Does McGirt Cede Oklahoma Waters to Native American Tribes?
On July 9, the U.S. Supreme Court made waves in McGirt v. Oklahoma by overturning a criminal conviction imposed upon a Native American defendant under Oklahoma law. The primary reasons for overturning the conviction were that (i) the defendant had allegedly committed the crime on land Congress had…