EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under the CWA and APA in Cape Fear River Watch v. United States Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:22-cv-03809 (D.D.C.), in connection with its alleged failure to perform duties mandated by the CWA to revise the effluent limitations guidelines and promulgate pretreatment standards for the meat and poultry products industrial category.
DOT established regulations setting minimum standards and requirements for projects funded under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Formula Program and projects for the construction of publicly accessible electric vehicle (EV) chargers under certain statutory authorities, including any EV charging infrastructure project funded with federal funds that is treated as a project on a federal-aid highway.
The federal agencies issued their semiannual regulatory agendas to update the public about regulations currently under development, reviews of existing regulations with small business impacts, and regulations completed or canceled since the last agenda. EPA’s agenda can be found at 88 FR 11286.
EPA approved the Delaware Division of Public Health's request to revise or modify certain of its Agency-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.
In 2015, the United Nations Member States, including the United States, unanimously approved 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to be achieved by 2030. In a forthcoming book, leading legal scholars examine each of the SDGs and recommend a suite of government, private-sector, and civil society actions to help the United States achieve these goals. This Article is adapted from Chapter 12 of that book, Governing for Sustainability (John C. Dernbach & Scott E. Schang eds., ELI Press, forthcoming 2023).
Climate change has captured the attention of governments, regulators, international bodies, and the private sector. But climate change is arguably a single facet of a larger concern: the “rapid decline” in the integrity of nature. Climate and other natural systems are interconnected, and recent literature has focused increasingly on this “interdependence of climate, ecosystems, and biodiversity,” spurring a wide variety of organizations to reflect on the broader role nature plays in environmental sustainability.
DOI reassigned responsibilities for the administration of certain regulations governing renewable energy development and alternate uses of existing facilities on the outer continental shelf, transferring them from the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management to the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement.
The Office of Management and Budget, on behalf of the Interagency Policy Working Group on Statistics for Environmental-Economic Decisions, announced the availability of a finalized strategic plan on statistics for environmental-economic decisions.
EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft white paper entitled “Availability of New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) in the Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP),” developed pursuant to the Federal, Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act, which requires the Agency to develop a screening program, to determine whether certain substances may have an effect in humans that is similar to an effect produced by a naturally occurring estrogen, or other endocrine effects.
The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management announced and seeks comment on its intention to change its bid adequacy procedures, which ensure the United States receives fair market value from outer continental shelf oil and gas lease sales, by discontinuing the use of both tract classification and delayed valuation methodology and using a statistical lower bound confidence interval, at the 90 percent confidence level, as a measure of bid adequacy.