On February 2, PPGMR Law attorneys Alan Perkins and Jeffrey Swann successfully achieved a defense summary judgment for firm client SEECO, Inc. in a class action lawsuit filed in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency recently announced that it will grant the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality's request to designate Crittenden County as meeting the federal ozone standard under the Clean Air Act.
Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge joined with the Attorneys General of twenty-eight other states in filing a writ of certiorari to the United States Supreme Court asking for a stay of the Clean Power Plan while the legality of the Plan is litigated.
The Department of the Interior's Bureau of Land Management recently released a proposed rule that would have a large impact on natural gas operations on federal lands and Native American reservations.
The Obama administration's Clean Power Plan, which imposes heightened regulations on power plants and emphasizes natural gas as an energy source, officially begins today.