United States v. Crowley Marine Services, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00307 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 7, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants must purchase credits in a habitat restoration project constructed along the Lower Duwamish River, pay a total of $210,000 for natural resource damages, and pay $64,325.63 to reimburse assessment costs in connection with natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil from facilities located along and near the river. 

DOE notified interested parties of its intent to launch a Voluntary Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchasing Challenge. 

FWS designated critical habitat for 12 endangered species on the island of Hawai‘i under the ESA. 

FWS designated approximately 1,160,625 acres in 13 Florida counties as critical habitat for the Florida bonneted bat under the ESA.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft document titled “EPA Criteria for Product Category Rules to Support the Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials.” 

FWS removed the Florida golden aster from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants due to recovery. 

NMFS gave notice that all Middle Columbia River steelhead occurring in all accessible reaches upstream of Round Butte Dam on the Deschutes River in Oregon will be designated as threatened under the ESA when the nonessential experimental population designation and accompanying protective measures expire on January 15, 2025.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on the draft document titled "Technical Documentation for the Framework for Evaluating Damages and Impacts (FrEDI)," which provides technical documentation of a framework used to analyze future climate change-related impacts to the United States, projected to occur across multiple impact sector categories, geographic regions, and populations, under any custom temperature scenario.

United States v. Navistar, Inc., No. 1:24-cv-00285 (S.D. Ind. Feb. 13, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling CERCLA defendants must reimburse the United States for response costs and are liable for future response costs regarding the release and threatened release of hazardous substances from a former waste oil collection, storage, and transfer facility in Indianapolis, Indiana. 

EPA seeks public input on potential charge questions that the Agency could consider when consulting the e-Manifest Advisory Board regarding the operations of EPA's hazardous waste electronic manifest system.