In re Caribbean Petroleum Corp., No. 10-12553 (KG) (Bankr. D. Del. May 20, 2011). Settling CERCLA, CWA, Oil Pollution Act, and RCRA defendants responsible for violations at a petroleum distribution terminal in Bayamón, Puerto Rico, must provide the United States with general unsecured claims totaling $18,725,130 and must pay $8,200,000 in U.S. response costs and penalties.

United States v. BP Exploration (Alaska) Inc., No. 3:09-CV-00064-JWS (D. Alaska May 3, 2011). A settling CAA, CWA, and Pipeline Safety Law defendant responsible for violations in the operation of oil pipelines on the North Slope of Alaska must pay a $25 million civil penalty and must implement a comprehensive integrity management program to maintain its oil pipelines in Prudhoe Bay.

FWS seeks public comment and information to prepare a draft National Fish, Wildlife, and Plants Climate Adaptation Strategy to reduce the negative impacts of climate change on fish, wildlife, plants, habitats, and our natural resource heritage.

EPA Region 10 reproposed effluent limits for mercury, copper, total aromatic hydrocarbons, total aqueous hydrocarbons, silver, and whole effluent toxicity under the NPDES general permit for oil and gas exploration, development, and production facilities in Cook Inlet, Alaska.

EPA announced approval of Washington's lead-based paint renovation, repair, painting, and pre-renovation education programs for target housing and child-occupied facilities.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling party to pay $208,990 in U.S. response costs incurred at the Big River Mine Tailings Superfund site in St. Francois County, Missouri.

The Federal Highway Administration transferred to the state of Utah the responsibility for the preparation of EAs and EISs under NEPA for federal-aid highway projects.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement in Sierra Club v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 2:10-cv-01872-RSL (W.D. Wash.), that establishes a deadline for the Agency to respond to a petition seeking its objection to a CAA Title V operating permit for a coal-fired power plant in Centralia, Washington.

EPA proposed to revoke a significant new use rule for a chemical substance identified generically as substituted ethoxyethylamine phosphonate because of new information and test data.

SIP Proposal: Wyoming (attainment of the 1997 ozone NAAQS).