Greater-Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution (“GASP”) filed a Title V Petition to Object before the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) Administrator related to UOP, LLC Mobile Plant (“UOP”).
The Title V Petition objects to the Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) reissuance of a proposed Title V operating permit for the Mobile Plant.
Title V of the Clean Air Act requires certain stationary sources of air pollution to obtain Operating Permits. It requires that states administer Title V through adopted implementation plans. These plans are submitted to and approved by EPA. The intent of a Title V permit is to organize in a single document all the requirements which apply to the permit holder.
By Erica Thomas, managing editor
TRUSSVILLE The Trussville City Council honored the Hewitt-Trussville High School Girls Basketball Team with a proclamation during its regular meeting on Tuesday, March 13, 2021.
The Lady Huskies finished their 2020-21 season with a school-best 29-5 record. Coaches and players from the team were invited to the council meeting Tuesday night to hear the reading of the proclamation. The team made it all the way to the state championship, senior guard Amiya Payne earned the Alabama Sports Writers Association 1
st Team All-State Honors, among others, and several other players including freshman guard Jordan Hunter and sophomore guard April Hooks were also named in the proclamation for their many accomplishments as athletes.
The Alabama Department of Environmental Management (“ADEM”) and USS Real Estate (“USS”) entered into a Consent Order (“CO”) addressing alleged violations of an NPDES General Permit (Stormwater)(“Permit”).
The CO provides that USS is a developer undertaking a residential subdivision development (“Facility”) in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Construction of the Facility is stated to have the potential to discharge sediment and other pollutants in stormwater runoff to an unnamed tributary to Hurricane Branch (a water of the State).
USS is stated to have submitted to ADEM a Notice of Intent (“NOI”) requesting NPDES coverage under NPDES General Permit ALR100000 for regulated disturbance activities and discharges of treated stormwater from the Facility. Authorization was granted for the Permit.
Scientists identify new home for rare, tiny rush darter
By Alabama NewsCenter Staff
April 13, 2021
The USDA Forest Service, with biologists from Alabama Power and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, recently found the rare rush darter living in a new spot in the Bankhead National Forest. The tiny fish has been found only in Alabama. (Dylan Shaw / Alabama Power)
A new search in the Bankhead National Forest for a tiny, rare fish found only in Alabama has discovered it living in a spot where no one had seen it before.
The USDA Forest Service, supported by biologists from Alabama Power and the Alabama Department of Environmental Management, went looking last month for the federally endangered rush darter in a remote section of the forest in Winston County.
According to a Feb. 18 email filed with ADEM by Josh Stewart, an ADEM employee at the Decatur branch, the brush fire began Feb. 13 and the landfill manager was “unsure how the fire started because that area of the pile wasn’t actively receiving waste thereby ruling out the possibility of a hot load.”