EPA granted Indiana final authorization for changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

EPA issued and seeks comment on an advanced notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) concerning its promulgation of national minimum criteria for existing and new coal combustion residuals landfills and surface impoundments; the ANPRM is the Agency's first step in implementing the D.C. Circuit's 2018 ruling in Utility Solid Waste Activities Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, which vacated and remanded the provision of the criteria that exempted inactive impoundments at inactive facilities.

United States v. Chemtronics, Inc., No. 1:20-cv-00272 (W.D.N.C. Sept. 29, 2020). A settling CERCLA and RCRA defendant must reimburse EPA for past and future response costs incurred at the Chemtronics Superfund site in Buncombe County, North Carolina, and perform work set forth in the second amendment to the 1988 record of decision issued by EPA on September 29, 2016.

United States v. Nassau County, New York, No. 2:20-CV-4648 (E.D.N.Y. Sept. 30, 2020). A settling RCRA defendant that failed to comply with RCRA's UST requirements must bring its USTs into compliance with the regulations, install and operate a centralized monitoring system, and pay a civil penalty of $427,500.

EPA reissued an exemption to the land disposal restrictions on underground injection under an amendment to RCRA for three Class I hazardous waste injection wells in Port Lavaca, Texas.

In re Exide Holdings, Inc., No. 20-11157(CSS) (Bankr. D. Del. Sept. 22, 2020). A proposed consent decree and settlement agreement under RCRA and CERCLA relating to debtors' non-performing properties will be incorporated into the debtors' proposed Chapter 11 plan; under the agreement, debtors must transfer certain properties to an environmental response trust or trusts, and certain secured creditors must make payments to the trusts and pay the full penal sum of certain surety bonds issued for environmental liabilities for certain of the non-performing properties.

United States v. Goodrich Corporation, No. 5:20-cv-00154-TBR (W.D. Ky. Sept. 17, 2020). Settling defendants under CERCLA and RCRA must implement remedial actions totaling an estimated cost of $97,000,000 at the B.F. Goodrich site in Calvert City, Kentucky.

EPA proposed to authorize revisions to South Carolina’s hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

EPA finalized regulations to implement the D.C. Circuit’s vacatur of the Agency’s 2015 provisions regarding national minimum criteria for coal combustion residuals (CCR) landfills and CCR surface impoundments.

EPA proposed to authorize revisions to Illinois’ hazardous waste management program under RCRA.