89 FR 23294
EPA finalized amendments to NESHAPs for integrated iron and steel manufacturing facilities.
EPA finalized amendments to NESHAPs for integrated iron and steel manufacturing facilities.
Over the last three decades, numerous studies have concluded that African American, Hispanic, Native American, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, and working-class White communities are disproportionately exposed to environmental harms and risks. More recent studies have concluded that although the adverse effects of climate change are being felt throughout the United States, they are not evenly distributed. This Article explores how several states have initiated climate justice litigation to address this issue.
On October 7, 2023, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the most far-reaching corporate climate disclosure (CCD) requirements in the United States. This so-called California Climate Accountability Package consists of the Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act (Senate Bill (SB) 253), which requires certain companies to disclose greenhouse gas emission data, and the Climate-Related Financial Risk Act (SB 261), which requires certain companies to disclose climate-related financial risks.
SIP Proposal: California (revisions concerning nonattainment fees in the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District).
SIP Proposal: Oregon (revisions to stationary source permitting rules).
SIP Approval: Maryland (regional haze).
EPA gave notice that the volatile organic compounds and nitrogen oxides motor vehicle emissions budgets in the submitted 2015 ozone moderate reasonable further progress plan for Allegan, Berrien, and Muskegon Counties are adequate for conformity purposes.
EPA updated a portion of the outer continental shelf air regulations for which North Carolina is the designated corresponding onshore area.
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in in Sierra Club v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:23-cv-01744-JDB (D.D.C.), that would establish deadlines for the Agency to sign a notice of proposed rulemaking for certain SIPs concerning regional haze.
SIP Approval: Florida (general conformity portion of the conformity rule).