89 FR 5145
EPA proposed to reclassify the San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston-Galveston Brazoria ozone nonattainment areas from moderate to serious for the 2015 ozone NAAQS.
EPA proposed to reclassify the San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston-Galveston Brazoria ozone nonattainment areas from moderate to serious for the 2015 ozone NAAQS.
EPA proposed a regulation to implement the requirements of the CAA as specified in the Methane Emissions Reduction Program of the Inflation Reduction Act; the regulation would implement calculation procedures, flexibilities, and exemptions related to the waste emissions charge and establish confidentiality determinations for data elements included in waste emissions charge filings.
SIP Proposal: California (nonattainment new source review requirements for 2015 ozone NAAQS in the Feather River Air Quality Management District).
SIP Proposal: New Hampshire (reasonably available control technology requirements for PAK Solutions, LLC).
EPA proposed amendments to the new source performance standards and emission guidelines for large municipal waste combustion units.
The Fifth Circuit, 2-1, denied petitions to review EPA's 2016 designation of two counties in Texas as nonattainment for the 2010 sulfur dioxide NAAQS. The state of Texas and the owner of a power plant located in one of the counties sought to have the designation vacated, arguing it violated the CAA ...
The Fourth Circuit, 2-1, granted West Virginia's motion to stay EPA's disapproval of its SIP addressing "good neighbor" obligations under the revised 2015 air quality standards for ozone. EPA's disapproval found the state would still contribute significantly to nonattainment or interfere with mainte...
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under the CAA in Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 4:23-cv-03571-YGR (N.D. Cal.), that would establish a deadline for the EPA Administrator to sign a notice of final rulemaking on a California SIP submittal entitled “South Coast Air Quality Management District Rule 2305, Warehouse Indirect Source Rule—Warehouse Actions and Investments to Reduce Emissions Program.”
SIP Approval: Florida (miscellaneous changes).
SIP Approval: Ohio (second 10-year limited maintenance plans for the 2006 24-hour fine particulate matter NAAQS for the Canton-Massillon, Cleveland-Akron-Lorain, and Steubenville-Weirton Ohio-West Virginia maintenance areas).