EPA authorized South Carolina’s changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA.

DOJ, on behalf of DOI, entered into a proposed settlement agreement under OPA that requires the settling party to pay $400,000 for past assessment costs and implementation of natural resource restoration projects related to the January 23, 2010, discharge of sour crude oil into the Sabine-Neches Waterway in the city of Port Arthur, Texas, at or from the T/V Eagle Otome as a result of its collision with the towboat Dixie Vengeance.

EPA proposed measures to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by methylene chloride under its conditions of use as documented in the Agency's June 2020 Risk Evaluation and November 2022 revised risk determination prepared under TSCA.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on the Draft National Strategy to Prevent Plastic Pollution to reduce plastic waste and other post-consumer materials in waterways and oceans, as directed by Congress in §301 of the Save Our Seas 2.0 Act.

EPA entered into a modified proposed cashout settlement agreement under CERCLA for recovery of response costs at the Delta Shipyard Superfund site in Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA that requires a settling defendant to pay $5.25 million as partial payment for Agency response costs associated with the ITC Tank Fire Superfund site in Deer Park, Texas.

EPA Region 2 entered into a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York.

United States v. LLOG Exploration Offshore, L.L.C., No. 2:23-cv-01301-WBV-KWR (E.D. La. Apr. 19, 2022). A settling OPA defendant must pay the United States $3.1 million in connection with a crude oil spill that occurred at the Mississippi Canyon Block 209 subsea oil production system in the Gulf of Mexico beginning on or about October 11, 2017.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management increased the Oil Pollution Act offshore facility limit of liability for damages from $137,659,500 to $167,806,900.

United States v. San Diego, California, County of, No. 3:22-cv-01753-JO-NLS (S.D. Cal. Apr. 7, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must undertake a non-time-critical removal action to address site contamination and reimburse the United States’ past and future response costs in connection with releases or threats of releases of hazardous substances at or from the Ramona Burn Dump Site in San Diego County, California, in the Palomar Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest.