EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on the “Examination of Microcosm/Mesocosm Studies for Evaluating the Effects of Atrazine on Aquatic Plant Communities” that is being submitted to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel for peer review.

EPA entered into a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Marko Engraving & Art Corp. site in Fairview, New Jersey.

EPA updated the list of chemicals subject to toxic chemical release reporting under EPCRA and the Pollution Prevention Act, identifying nine per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances that must be reported.

EPA announced the start of the 2024 submission period for the TSCA Chemical Data Reporting rule.

EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under a proposed prospective purchaser agreement pursuant to CERCLA and RCRA concerning the Buick City site in Flint, Michigan.

EPA seeks comment on implementation of a plan to ensure that farmworkers have access to bilingual pesticide labeling by December 2025 under the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2022.

EPA proposed to address the unreasonable risk of injury to human health presented by perchloroethylene (PCE) under its conditions of use as documented in the Agency's December 2020 risk evaluation for PCE and December 2022 revised risk determination for PCE prepared under TSCA.

United States v. Great Lakes Synergy Corp., No. 3:23-cv-01934 (S.D. Ohio June 6, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant that released and threatened releases of hazardous substances at Area 7 of the Additional and Uncharacterized Sites Operable Unit of the Crab Orchard National Wildlife Refuge NPL Site near Marion, Illinois, must perform removal actions to clean up the area, reimburse future response costs incurred by the United States, and reimburse $830,890 in past response costs incurred by the United States.

EPA amended the requirements in the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan that govern the use of dispersants and other chemicals and spill mitigating substances when responding to oil discharges into jurisdictional waters of the United States.

United States v. New York, City of, No. 1:23-CV-4129 (E.D.N.Y. June 5, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must pay $1.6 million for past costs incurred by EPA and fund and perform remedial work, including the removal of soil and sediments exhibiting levels exceeding the remediation goals in the impacted sewers and beneath the roadway and sidewalks, at the Wolff-Alport Chemical Company Superfund site in Ridgewood, New York.