Air Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Mobile Sawmill Facility Enter into Consent Order
December 18, 2024
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and Scotch and Gulf Lumber, LLC (“Scotch”) entered into a December 11th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of a Clean Air Act Title V Major Source Operating Permit. Scotch is described as operating a sawmill facility in…
Title V/Clean Air Act: Sierra Club Petition to Object Filed Addressing Houston, Texas Refinery
December 17, 2024
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Sierra Club and three other environmental organizations filed the following document before the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) on December 3rd: Petition to Object to the Title V Operating Permit for the Valero Houston Refinery (“Petition”). The other three…
Transportation/Hazardous Materials: Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration Interpretive Letter Addressing Aerosols
December 17, 2024
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Administration (“PHMSA”) addressed in an October 9th interpretive letter the application of federal Hazardous Materials Regulations (“HMR”) to limited quantities of compressed gas and how it relates to aerosols. PHMSA was responding to a request from The Sterno…
Buffalo River Conservation Committee: December 20th Meeting Scheduled
December 17, 2024
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
The Buffalo River Conservation Committee (“Committee”) will hold its next meeting on December 20th at 11:30 AM. The meeting will be held by Zoom only. The Committee was originally established by Governor Asa Hutchinson in 2016 in order to develop an Arkansas-led non-regulatory approach identifying…
Association of State Drinking Water Administrators 50th Safe Drinking Water Act Anniversary Video: Lance Jones (Arkansas Department of Health) Discusses Shared Water Systems
December 16, 2024
by Walter G. Wright, Jr.
Mr. Lance Jones of the Arkansas Department of Health (“ADH”) is featured in an Association of State Drinking Water Administrators’ (“ASDWA”) video celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act (“SDWA”). Mr. Jones is the ADH’s Engineering Section Chief. ADH’s Engineering…
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