DOE notified interested parties of its intent to launch a Voluntary Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchasing Challenge. 

EPA Region 4 reissued the NPDES general permit for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category located and discharging to the outer continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft document titled “EPA Criteria for Product Category Rules to Support the Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials.” 

NOAA proposed to designate marine portions of Papahānaumokuākea Marine National Monument in the Pacific Ocean waters surrounding the Northwest Hawaiian Islands as Papahānaumokuākea National Marine Sanctuary. 

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on the draft document titled "Technical Documentation for the Framework for Evaluating Damages and Impacts (FrEDI)," which provides technical documentation of a framework used to analyze future climate change-related impacts to the United States, projected to occur across multiple impact sector categories, geographic regions, and populations, under any custom temperature scenario.

The National Science Foundation seeks input to inform the development of an implementation plan to advance a key recommendation of the Ocean Climate Action Plan regarding marine carbon dioxide removal research.

EPA seeks comment on draft guidance to clarify and inform future NPDES permitting actions for communities with combined sewer systems. 

The Army Corps of Engineers proposed to establish agency specific procedures for its implementation of principles, requirements, and guidelines for water resources investments in response to congressional direction provided in authorizing language in the Water Resources Development Act of 2020.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on the Draft Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2022. 

United States v. Lowell, Massachusetts, City of, No. 1:24-cv-10290 (D. Mass. Feb. 5, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CWA defendant that allegedly engaged in unpermitted and illegal discharges from its wastewater collection system and small municipal separate storm sewer system must take measures necessary to achieve and maintain compliance and pay a $200,000 civil penalty for past noncompliance.