EPA announced the start of the 2024 submission period for the TSCA Chemical Data Reporting rule.

EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under a proposed prospective purchaser agreement pursuant to CERCLA and RCRA concerning the Buick City site in Flint, Michigan.

EPA seeks comment on implementation of a plan to ensure that farmworkers have access to bilingual pesticide labeling by December 2025 under the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022.

EPA proposed to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by perchloroethylene (PCE) under its conditions of use as documented in the Agency's December 2020 risk evaluation for PCE and December 2022 revised risk determination for PCE prepared under TSCA.

EPA amended the requirements in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan that govern the use of dispersants and other chemicals and spill mitigating substances when responding to oil discharges into jurisdictional waters of the United States.

United States v. Eastman Chemical Resins, Inc., No. 2:23-cv-00867-MJH (W.D. Pa. May 24, 2023). Settling CWA, CAA, and RCRA defendants must perform injunctive relief, including conducting a third-party environmental audit, implementing effluent limit violations response requirements, performing facility specific work and repairs, completing comprehensive stormwater and groundwater control plans, and implementing a RCRA-based training program and daily inspection requirements; as well as pay a $2.4 million civil penalty in connection with alleged violations at a hydrocarbon resins manufacturing facility in Jefferson Hills, Pennsylvania.

EPA proposed amendments to the new chemicals procedural regulations under TSCA; the amendments would reduce the need to redo all or part of the risk assessment by improving information initially submitted in new chemicals notices, as well as revise the regulations for low volume exemptions and low release and exposure exemptions, which include requiring EPA approval of an exemption notice prior to commencement of manufacture, making per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances categorically ineligible for these exemptions, and providing that certain persistent, bioaccumulative, toxic chemical substances are ineligible for these exemptions.

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

EPA authorized South Carolina’s changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

DOJ, on behalf of DOI, entered into a proposed settlement agreement under OPA that requires the settling party to pay $400,000 for past assessment costs and implementation of natural resource restoration projects related to the January 23, 2010, discharge of sour crude oil into the Sabine-Neches Waterway in the city of Port Arthur, Texas, at or from the T/V Eagle Otome as a result of its collision with the towboat Dixie Vengeance.