United States v. Utility Board of the City of Key West, Florida, No. 4:22-cv-10070-JLK (S.D. Fla. Aug. 23, 2022). A proposed consent decree resolves a National Marine Sanctuaries Act claim for $1,800,000 for the recovery of damages arising from utility work relating to Keys Energy Services Line 4 conducted near Rockland Key, Florida, between October 14 and December 20, 2017, that destroyed sea grasses in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary.

NMFS seeks comment on draft revisions to a procedural directive concerning the process for distinguishing serious from non-serious injury of marine mammals under the Marine Mammal Protection Act. 

The Federal Highway Administration proposed to amend its regulations governing national performance management measures to require state departments of transportation and metropolitan planning organizations to establish declining carbon dioxide targets and a method for the measurement and reporting of greenhouse gas emissions associated with transportation under Title 23 of the U.S. Code.

NOAA proposed changes to the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary to expand the boundary of the sanctuary, update sanctuary-wide regulations, update the individual marine zones and their associated regulations, and revise the sanctuary’s terms of designation. 

FERC proposed to direct transmission providers to submit one-time informational reports describing their current or planned policies and processes for conducting extreme weather vulnerability assessments under the Federal Power Act. 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology established the Low Carbon Cements and Concretes Consortium to bring together stakeholders to identify and address standards needs related to low carbon cements and concretes used to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission seeks comment to better inform its understanding and oversight of climate-related financial risk as pertinent to the derivatives markets and underlying commodities markets. 

FWS proposed to revise regulations concerning experimental populations of endangered species and threatened species under the ESA by removing language that generally restricts the introduction of experimental populations to only the species' historical range to allow for the introduction of populations into habitats outside their historical range for conservation purposes. 

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office implemented the Climate Change Mitigation Pilot Program, which is designed to accelerate the examination of patent applications for innovations that reduce greenhouse gas emissions. 

NOAA amended the National Marine Sanctuaries program regulations with an interim final rule that updates the existing regulations, eliminates redundancies, eliminates outmoded regulations, adopts standard boundary descriptions, and consolidates general regulations and permitting procedures.