Articles

Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. issued an Order rejecting a plea of twenty states to block enforcement the EPA’s rule designed to curb air pollution with mercury and other toxic substances power plants. The Order did not refer the issue to the full Court.

The Arkansas Court of Appeals recently indicated that the duty of ordinary care may require a contractor to ensure that its equipment left on a job site, when knowingly used by others, causes no harm. The case involved a church ...

PPGMR’s Julie Greathouse is one of the featured women entrepreneurs in Arkansas. Julie is the managing member of PPGMR, and we are proud she is recognized as a leader of our law firm.

While the final Clean Power Plan released on Monday by the Obama administration and the U.S. Environmental Protection ("EPA") agency spells even tighter reduction goals for the rest of the country, it backs away somewhat from the emissions goal originally proposed for Arkansas. The original target proposed for Arkansas would require an approximately 45% reduction in carbon emissions, which was significantly above the Plan's national goal. This is reduced in the final Plan to a state goal of approximately 37%. As to how emission reductions are to be achieved, the final Clean Power Plan continues to place a strong emphasis on renewable energy and is anticipated to create new opportunitities within that industry. Under the Plan, the Obama administration projects that renewable energy sources will account for 28% of the nation's capacity by 2030, an increase from the 22% in the original proposal.

The Obama Administration and EPA today released their final Clean Power Plan aimed at reducing carbon pollution from power plants. The final rule sets an interim goal (2022-2029) for Arkansas of 1,411 pounds per megawatt-hour. The 2030 goal for Arkansas is 1,130 pounds per megawatt-hour.