89 FR 26813
SIP Proposal: Arizona (revisions concerning emissions of volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and sulfur oxides for the Maricopa County Air Quality Department).
SIP Proposal: Arizona (revisions concerning emissions of volatile organic compounds, nitrogen oxides, particulate matter, and sulfur oxides for the Maricopa County Air Quality Department).
United States v. Villegas, No. 1:24-cv-962 (D. Colo. Apr. 10, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling CWA defendants that discharged pollutants without a permit into waters of the United States must restore impacted areas.
United States v. Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government, No. 5:06-cv-386-KSF (E.D. Ky. Apr. 10, 2024). A proposed material modification to a consent decree concerning alleged violations of the CWA stemming from the settling defendant's operation of its sanitary sewer system and wastewater treatment plant extends the final compliance deadline for remedial projects by four years to December 31, 2030, and makes changes to reporting frequency and methods.
EPA proposed to revise the existing secondary sulfur dioxide NAAQS, to retain the existing secondary standards for nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, and to revise the data handling requirements for the proposed secondary sulfur oxide NAAQS.
SIP Proposal: Ohio (particulate matter rules).
The D.C. Circuit upheld EPA's 2022 decision to reinstate a prior waiver of federal preemption of two California regulations concerning automobile emissions under the CAA. States and fossil fuel groups challenged the regulations—a standard limiting greenhouse gas emissions and a requirement that a ...
United States v. Flint Hills Resources Ingleside, LLC, No. 2:24-cv-00079 (S.D. Tex. Apr. 8, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CWA and OPA defendant that allegedly discharged about 14,000 gallons of crude oil that spilled into Corpus Christi Bay from a ruptured pipe on a dock at the defendant's crude oil storage terminal in Ingleside, Texas, must pay a total of $989,212.80.
SIP Approval: Virginia (second maintenance plan for the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the Fredericksburg area).
SIP Proposal: New Jersey (partial approval and partial disapproval of revisions to 2015 ozone infrastructure requirements).
SIP Proposal: Georgia (removal of requirement for enhanced Stage I gasoline vapor recovery systems at existing gasoline dispensing facilities in Catoosa, Richmond, and Walker Counties).