SIP Approval: California (volatile organic compound (VOC) emissions for the Yolo-Solano air quality management district).

SIP Proposal: California (partial approval of revisions for attainment of the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS for the San Joaquin Valley area).

EPA released a final report entitled, Aquatic Ecosystems, Water Quality, and Global Change: Challenges of Conducting Multi-Stressor Vulnerability Assessments.

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in WildEarth Guardians v. Jackson, No. 3:11-cv-00190-WHA (N.D. Cal.), that establishes deadlines for the Agency to take final action on SIPs in 20 states with regard to the 2006 fine particulate matter (PM) NAAQS. 

United States v. J.L. French LLC, No. 2:11-CV-00860 (E.D. Wis. Sept. 12, 2011). Settling CAA defendants responsible for violations at three aluminum production facilities in Kentucky must pay an $80,000 civil penalty to the United States and Kentucky, must retest emission units, must adopt new monitoring practices, must correct deficiencies in recordkeeping and reporting, must shut down certain emission units, and must apply for new operating permits at their facilities. 

SIP Proposal: Virginia (NAAQS for NO2; see above for direct final rule).

EPA, due to new information, withdrew its proposal to exclude (or delist) from the lists of hazardous wastes landfill leachate generated by Republic Services, Inc./BFI Gulf West Landfill in Anahuac, Texas. 

SIP Approval: New York (revisions to the eight-hour ozone NAAQS for the New York and Poughkeepsie moderate nonattainment areas).

FWS removed the Lake Erie watersnake from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the ESA due to its recovery.

SIP Proposal: Maryland (control of VOC emissions).