88 FR 15390
EPA announced a proposed cashout settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning Agency response costs at the Donna Reservoir and Canal Superfund site in Donna, Texas.
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88 FR 15392
EPA announced a proposed cashout settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning Agency response costs at the Vermiculite Products Inc. Superfund site in Houston, Texas.
88 FR 13442
EPA entered into a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the JJW Metal Recycling Fire Superfund site in Carolina, Puerto Rico.
88 FR 13034
EPA authorized Vermont’s changes to its hazardous waste management program under RCRA.
88 FR 13077
EPA proposed to authorize changes to Vermont’s hazardous waste management program under RCRA.
The Oak Ridge Cleanup: Protecting the Public or the Polluter?
The Oak Ridge Reservation is one of the largest U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) facilities in the country, with areas that are highly contaminated by chemicals, metals, and radionuclides. DOE is in the middle of a multi-decade, multi-billion-dollar cleanup there, and a recent Superfund decision for one portion of the site raises a number of significant legal issues. This Article addresses some related questions: Should radionuclides get less stringent cleanup than other equally harmful pollutants like mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls?
88 FR 12995
United States v. Honeywell International Inc., No. 5:23-cv-00059 (N.D.W. Va. Feb. 22, 2023). Settling CERCLA defendants must pay for all future EPA and West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection response costs and reimburse $534,165 of the United States’ past response costs in connection with the release of hazardous substances at the Hanlin-Allied-Olin Superfund site in Moundsville, West Virginia.
88 FR 12357
EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA involving a mixed work and funding agreement, including a proposed compromise of up to $1.841 million in direct and indirect EPA costs associated with the Agency’s contribution to the implementation of a removal action at the Mansell Field Site in Salem, Essex County, Massachusetts.
88 FR 10894
EPA finalized guidance on petitions for a no migration variance (NMV) under the land disposal restrictions pursuant to RCRA for persons applying for a NMV for a waste pile temporarily located within a RCRA-permitted Subtitle C landfill cell.
88 FR 7443
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree under RCRA in Statewide Organizing for Community eMpowerment v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, No. 1:22-cv-2562-JDB (D.D.C.), that would establish deadlines for the Agency to sign proposed and final actions pertaining to allegations that EPA failed to perform its non-discretionary duty to review and revise a regulation that exempts inactive coal combustion residuals (CCR) landfills from the CCR disposal regulations.