EPA proposed to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by carbon tetrachloride under its conditions of use as documented in EPA’s 2020 Risk Evaluation for Carbon Tetrachloride and 2022 Revised Unreasonable Risk Determination for Carbon Tetrachloride pursuant to the TSCA.

EPA seeks input on the Safer Choice and Design for the Environment programs’ potential expansion of their certification to new product categories.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft revision to the risk determination for 1,4-dioxane following a risk evaluation issued under TSCA.

EPA finalized reporting and recordkeeping requirements for asbestos under TSCA.

EPA announced a 60-day public comment period associated with the release of the draft IRIS Toxicological Review of Perfluorohexane Sulfonate (PFHxS) and Related Salts.

United States v. Boise Cascade Corp., No. 97-cv-1704 (TJM) (N.D.N.Y. July 12, 2023). A proposed second amendment to a consent decree includes an ability-to-pay-cash-out settlement with one of the settling CERCLA defendants in which it will pay $150,000 and be removed as a settling defendant responsible for future work and costs at the Sealand Superfund Restoration site in Lisbon, New York.

EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA and RCRA concerning the Delphi 1 Anderson Site in Anderson, Indiana.

United States v. J.R. Simplot Co., No. 1:23-cv-322 (D. Wyo. July 11, 2023). A settling RCRA, CAA, CERCLA, and EPCRA defendant must pay a $1.5 million civil penalty; implement compliance projects at its phosphoric acid and fertilizer manufacturing plant located near Pocatello, Idaho, known as the Don Plant; comply with specified requirements for management of wastes or other materials at the facility and in the facility’s phosphogypsum stack system; comply with specified requirements for the eventual closure and long-term care of the facility and provide financial assurance to cover the estimated cost of such obligations; continue groundwater and surface monitoring and reporting as required by a prior CERCLA consent decree; comply with specified operational practices for air emissions controls and replace the existing cooling towers with cooling pond(s) to reduce fluoride emissions into the air from the Don Plant; and revise the annual Toxic Chemical Release Inventory Reporting Forms it submitted under EPCRA for years 2004-2012 to include estimates of compounds that previously were not included.

EPA added a diisononyl phthalate category to the list of toxic chemicals subject to the reporting requirements under EPCRA and the Pollution Prevention Act.

United States v. Massachusetts Electric Co., No. 1:23- cv-11524 (D. Mass. July 7, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must provide $5.38 million to federal and state natural resources trustees to undertake habitat restoration work in the coastal area in the vicinity of the former Gloucester Gas Light Company Manufactured Gas Plant in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for damages relating to the release of hazardous substances to soils, sediments, groundwater, and surface water from the plant.