The Department of Agriculture adopted amendments to regulations governing conservation districts. The amendments incorporate legislative changes resulting from Acts 690 and 691 regarding the appointment and election of conservation district board members. See http://170.94.37.152/REGS/238.01.24-001F-24500.pdf.
The Department of Environmental Quality announced the availability of the State Fiscal Year 2025 (SFY25) Intended Use Plans and Project Priority Lists for the Base and Bipartisan Infrastructure Law Capitalization Grants. The draft plans outline the State Revolving Fund Program’s plan for administering the base capitalization grant funding associated with the Clean Water State Revolving Fund and the Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, and include the general supplemental funding made available through the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act of 2021 for SFY25.
A district court granted BLM's motion to dismiss tribes' and environmental groups' challenge to the Bureau's approval of a 550-mile transmission line route through the San Pedro Valley. Plaintiffs argued BLM violated the National Historic Preservation Act by failing to identify the San Pedro Valley ...
The Fifth Circuit affirmed dismissal of a constitutional challenge brought by a pipeline company concerning a 1949 permit a local levee board granted to the company to construct and maintain two pipelines across a levee in Mayersville, Mississippi. The company argued the board violated the Contracts...
United States v. ExxonMobil Pipeline Co. LLC, No. 4:24-cv-473-KGB (E.D. Ark. June 3, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling OPA defendants must pay a total of $1,755,082 in connection with a discharge of oil from the Pegasus Pipeline into the environment in and around Mayflower, Arkansas, that migrated to waters, wetlands, and ultimately to Lake Conway.
EPA determined that Alabama’s coal combustion residuals permit program does not meet the standard for approval under RCRA.
SIP Proposal: Pennsylvania (revisions to attainment plan for the Indiana, Pennsylvania 2010 one-hour sulfur dioxide nonattainment area).
SIP Proposal: Connecticut (removal of State Order Nos. 7002B and 2087 and addition of Consent Order No. 8381).
DOI proposed to revise seven categorical exclusions under NEPA in the Bureau of Reclamation’s NEPA implementing procedures.
NOAA issued final regulations for the designation of the Lake Ontario National Marine Sanctuary in eastern Lake Ontario to recognize the national significance of the area’s historical, archaeological, and cultural resources and to manage this area as part of the National Marine Sanctuary System.