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

United States v. Magnesium Corp. of America, No. 2:01CV0040B (D. Utah Jan. 20, 2021). In connection with U.S. Magnesium LLC's magnesium production facility in Rowley, Utah, settling RCRA defendants must make extensive process modifications to reduce environmental impacts from production operations and ensure greater protection for workers, establish appropriate financial assurance for closure or corrective action of certain waste management areas in the operating areas of the facility, pay a civil penalty, and perform the CERCLA response action.

United States v. American Zinc Recycling Corp., No. 3:21-cv-00098-RDM (M.D. Penn. Jan. 19, 2021). Under the CAA, RCRA, CWA, EPCRA, and state statutes and regulations, a settling defendant must pay a civil penalty and perform a number of actions to reduce and monitor pollutant emissions in connection with its zinc reclamation and processing facility in Palmerton, Pennsylvania.

EPA co-proposed to either modify or remove entirely the requirement for fuel dispenser labels for gasoline-ethanol blends of greater than 10 volume percent ethanol and up to 15 volume percent ethanol, and seeks comment on whether state and local governments may be preempted from requiring different labels on fuel dispensers; the Agency also proposed to modify certain UST regulations pertaining to storage of ethanol blends.

EPA proposed to approve in part the Texas coal combustion residuals (CCR) permit program to operate in lieu of the federal CCR program.

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

In response to the D.C. Circuit's decision in Utility Solid Waste Activities Group v. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA revised its national minimum criteria for existing and new coal combustion residuals (CCR) landfills to provide procedures for facilities to request approval to use an alternate liner for CCR surface impoundments.

EPA proposed to authorize revisions to Texas' hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

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.