EPA Region 4 proposed to reissue the NPDES general permit for the outer continental shelf of the Gulf of Mexico for discharges in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category.

USDA seeks comment on the 2023 update to Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Fluxes in Agriculture and Forestry: Methods for Entity‐Scale Inventory, which provides methods to quantify entity-scale greenhouse gas emissions from the agriculture and forestry sectors.  

SIP Approval: Michigan (nonattainment new source review requirements for the 2015 ozone NAAQS).

SIP Proposal: Michigan (nonattainment new source review requirements for the 2015 ozone NAAQS).

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.

CEQ requested input to inform the development of an Ocean Justice Strategy, which will describe the vision, goals, and high-level objectives for coordinating and guiding ocean justice activities across the federal government.