Response to Georgia-Pacific Letter re Ouachita Riverkeeper and Louisiana Environmental Action Network’s Civil Rights Complaint against Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality EPA File No. 27R-16-R6 (166-002.3) (11/3/16)
Complaint to EPA under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 on behalf Ouachita Riverkeeper and Louisiana Environmental Action Network against the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality (Alleging that ADEQ’s decision to administratively continue a wastewater discharge permit issued to Georgia-Pacific for its paper and pulp mill complex in Crossett, Arkansas subjects African-Americans to discrimination by failing to apply Clean Water Act requirements and asking EPA to investigate, require reformation of the permit and mitigation of harmful effects within the community, and withdraw federal funding for Arkansas’s environmental programs if needed to protect the minority community in Crossett) (166-002.3) (4/26/2016)
Petition to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on behalf Gulf Restoration Network, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper, Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Tennessee Clean Water Network, Kentucky Waterways Alliance, Midwest Environmental Advocates, and Iowa Environmental Council (seeking an amendment to regulations governing the processing of Corps permit applications to require (1) written notice of all final permit decisions to each person who has submitted comments during the public comment period on a permit application and (2) publication of substantive information about all permit decisions on the Corps’ website). (157-044) (11/5/15)
Petition to EPA on behalf of the Ouachita Riverkeeper (petitioning EPA to determine that revised or new water quality standards are necessary for Coffee Creek and Mossy Lake, in Ashley County, Arkansas to meet the Clean Water Act’s requirements) (166-004.2) (9/10/15)
Petition to U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on behalf of Atchafalaya Basinkeeper and the Louisiana Crawfish Producers’ Association-West (seeking public notice and NEPA review for the Corps’ re-issuance of Clean Water Act § 404 regional general permit New Orleans District 13 for board road and ring levee projects in wetlands) (155-017) (5/21/15)
Petition to EPA on behalf of Sierra Club and Louisiana Environmental Action Network (seeking an EPA objection to a Title V Clean Air Act permit (No. 2560-00295-V0) that the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality issued to Yuhuang Chemical Inc. for a new methanol plant in St. James Parish, Louisiana, and alleging that the permit fails to meet the Act’s requirements for Prevention of Significant Deterioration (“PSD”), including permitting and public participation requirements) (Some exhibits omitted) (126-024.1) (5/18/15)
Petition on behalf of the Oakville Community Action Group to the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (requesting that the agency evaluate the health impacts of hydrogen sulfide exposure to the residents of the Oakville in Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana from the adjacent construction and demolition debris landfill) (104-035) (4/30/15)
Petition on behalf of the Apalachicola Riverkeeper and others to Secretary Sally Jewell, U.S. Dep’t of the Interior, Secretary Jeh Johnson, U.S. Dep’t of Homeland Security, & Admiral Paul F. Zukunft, Commandant of the Coast Guard requesting public disclosure of information about the Taylor Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico (101-127) (4/23/15)
Petition on behalf of Sierra Club, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Gulf Restoration Network, Alliance for Affordable Energy, and an individual requesting that EPA object to a Clean Air Act permit for a coal-fired power plant in Montz, LA(2008 WL 8250352) (126-017) (1/9/08)
Petition on behalf of Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Atchafalaya Basinkeeper Organization, Gulf Restoration Network, Louisiana Audubon Council, and Dean A. Wilson requesting that LDEQ reopen a permit governing air pollution from the PPG Chlor-Alkali Plant in Lake Charles, Louisiana, to incorporate new limits on mercury emissions and to consider alternatives, including conversion to a mercury-free process (101-081) (4/13/05)
Petition (filed 10/9/01, supplemented 2/22/02 & 9/17/02) on behalf of the Louisiana Environmental Action Network and other community groups asking EPA to withdraw Louisiana's authority to administer the Clean Water Act's discharge-permitting program (101-044) (9/17/02)
Petition on behalf of Louisiana Environmental Action Network and 11 other organizations requesting that the EPA audit LDEQ's Emission Reduction Bank) (101-023) (4/10/02)
Petition on behalf of St. James Citizens for Jobs and the Environment, Louisiana Environmental Action Network and others requesting that EPA object to a Clean Air Act permit for Shintech Inc. to construct a polyvinyl chloride (“PVC”) production plant in a predominately African-American and lower income community in St. James Parish (107-002) (5/22/97)