November 20, 2015
The nation's largest steel producer is asking the Eighth Circuit to let it play a role in the development of a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency plan to reduce haze in Arkansas, saying the plan threatens to significantly raise its electric rates.
October 23, 2015
The state of Arkansas told a federal court on Friday that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency shouldn't be able to block its attempt to uncover what's preventing the agency from complying with a proposed April 2016 deadline to issue a mandated haze mitigation plan.
September 09, 2015
The Sierra Club pressed a federal judge Tuesday to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to finalize by April its long-overdue plan to reduce haze in Arkansas, saying an accelerated schedule is warranted given the agency's previous failures to heed expressly outlined deadlines.
August 25, 2015
An Arkansas federal judge said Monday the state may intervene in the Sierra Club's lawsuit seeking to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to approve a plan to control haze, but did not allow two private groups to join the matter.
June 11, 2015
Arkansas sought to intervene Thursday in an environmental group's suit aimed at prodding the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to act on a revised state haze mitigation plan, saying the new deadlines proposed in the case are too tight to ensure good rule-making.