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2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: Life
This is the fourth and final article in a series of summaries of Insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and entered into an extended recess on April 16, 2025. The resolution authorizing the extended recess…
State Air Trends & Successes: Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies Issues 2025 Report
May 28, 2025
The Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies ("AAPCA") issued the 2025 edition of its annual report titled: State Air Trends & Successes ("Report"). AAPCA describes itself as a: ...National Small Land, non-profit consensus-driven organization focused on assisting state and local air…
2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: Health
This is the third article in a series of summaries of insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and entered into an extended recess on April 16, 2025. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for…
2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: P&C
This is the second article in a series of summaries of insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and entered into an extended recess on April 16, 2025. The resolution authorizing the extended recess provides for…
2025 Arkansas Insurance Legislation Summary: General
This is the first article in a series of summaries of insurance legislation from the 95th Arkansas General Assembly. The 95th Arkansas General Assembly convened on January 13, 2025, and recessed on April 16, 2025. The General Assembly reconvened on May 5, 2025, and formally adjourned sine die. In…
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law Blog
2026 Multi-Sector General Permit for Industrial Stormwater Discharges: National Municipal Stormwater Alliance Comments Addressing Proposed Federal Renewal
The National Municipal Stormwater Alliance (“NMSA”) submitted April 4th comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing the proposed Clean Water Act National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (“NPDES”) Multi-Sector General Permit (“MSGP”) for Stormwater…
Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission Meeting - June Meeting CANCELLED
The Arkansas Pollution Control and Ecology Commission (“Commission”) is the environmental policy-making body for Arkansas. The Commission, with certain exceptions, meets on a monthly basis. The Commission issued a notice stating: The next PC&EC meeting is scheduled in-person for 10 a.m. Friday…
Air Enforcement: Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality and Grenada County Lumber Company Enter into Agreed Order
The Mississippi Commission on Environmental Quality (“MCEQ”) and Hankins Lumber Company Inc. (“Hankins”) entered into an April 30th Agreed Order (“AO”) addressing an alleged violation of an Air Permit. See Order No. 7490 25. The AO provides that Hankins was notified of a violation of its Title V…
Title V/Clean Air Act: Environmental Integrity Project Petition to Object Filed Addressing Hawesville, Kentucky Aluminum Smelter Permit Renewal
The Environmental Integrity Project and Kentucky Resources Council (collectively, “EIP”) filed a June 9th Title V Petition to Object (“Petition”) before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) related to Century Aluminum of Kentucky, GP (“Century”) Hawesville Aluminum Smelter. The…
Transportation/Hazardous Waste Enforcement: Alabama Department of Environmental Management and Mobile Agricultural Chemical Manufacturing Facility Enter into Consent Order
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and AMVAC Chemical Corporation (“AMVAC”) entered into a June 11th Consent Order (“CO”) addressing an alleged violation of ADEM Admin. Code Div. 14. See Consent Order No. 25-XXX-CHW. The CO describes AMVAC as an agricultural chemical…