EPA Region 8 entered into a proposed prospective purchaser settlement agreement under CERCLA that requires the purchaser to perform a removal action and pay certain response costs incurred by the United States and Colorado at or in connection with Operable Units 3 and 6 of the Sand Creek Industrial Superfund site. 

EPA entered into a proposed consent decree that resolves a case alleging that the Agency unreasonably delayed taking action on a petition to list discarded polyvinyl chloride as hazardous waste under RCRA. 

EPA entered into two proposed administrative settlements under CERCLA concerning the U.S. Smelter and Lead Refinery, Inc. site in East Chicago, Indiana, that require the purchaser to perform remedial action on a portion of the site and the respondents to pay $18,000,000 in past response costs. 

EPA proposed to authorize changes to Hawaii's hazardous waste management program under RCRA. 

EPA authorized Hawaii's changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA. 

United States v. Cleveland-Cliffs Steel Corp., No. 0:22-CV-00029-HRW (E.D. Ky. Apr. 13, 2022). A settling defendant that violated RCRA nine times at a former coke production facility in Ashland, Kentucky, between 2010 and 2012 must pay a $490,000 civil penalty, conduct site-wide sampling and analysis, and clean up four specific locations at the facility. 

United States v. Northrop Grumman Systems Corp., No. 22-cv-02101 (E.D.N.Y. Apr. 12, 2022). Settling CERCLA defendants must pay $35,000,000 to address historical operations at the Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant in Bethpage, New York, and adjacent former facilities owned and operated by the defendants' predecessors. 

EPA announced a proposed consent decree that resolves a lawsuit that alleges the Agency unreasonably delayed taking final action on its proposed rulemaking to list diisononyl phthalate on the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) pursuant to EPCRA by requiring the Agency to either sign a rule that lists diisononyl phthalate on the TRI or withdraw the proposed rulemaking by January 31, 2023. 

EPA proposed amendments that integrate electronic manifests with hazardous waste exports and other manifest-related reports under RCRA and amendments to manifest regulations for PCBs under TSCA.

United States v. Genesis Petroleum, Inc., No. 19-cv-3340 (E.D.N.Y. Mar. 24, 2022). Settling RCRA defendants that violated regulations governing USTs at 13 facilities in New York and New Jersey must ensure and maintain compliance at 29 facilities they own and/or operate and pay a civil penalty of $250,000.