United States v. PPG Industries, Inc., No. 2:24-04771 (D.N.J. Apr. 11, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant must design and implement the components of the remedy selected for the Riverside Industrial Park Superfund Site in Newark, New Jersey, that relate to waste material, sewer water, soil gas, and soil/fill material; pay a total of $3,000,000 for past response costs; and pay for future response costs.

EPA proposed to revise the existing secondary sulfur dioxide NAAQS, to retain the existing secondary standards for nitrogen oxides and particulate matter, and to revise the data handling requirements for the proposed secondary sulfur oxide NAAQS.

SIP Proposal: Ohio (particulate matter rules).

SIP Approval: Virginia (second maintenance plan for the 1997 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the Fredericksburg area). 

SIP Proposal: New Jersey (partial approval and partial disapproval of revisions to 2015 ozone infrastructure requirements). 

SIP Proposal: Georgia (removal of requirement for enhanced Stage I gasoline vapor recovery systems at existing gasoline dispensing facilities in Catoosa, Richmond, and Walker Counties). 

SIP Proposal: North Carolina (revision to approved motor vehicle emissions budgets). 

SIP Proposal: Kentucky (updates to geographical boundary description and attainment status designation for the Henderson-Webster nonattainment area for the 2010 sulfur dioxide primary NAAQS).

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA for past response costs associated with the Chemical Recycling Inc., Superfund Site in Wylie, Texas. 

SIP Proposal: Colorado (base-year emissions inventory for the Denver Metro/North Front Range 2015 eight-hour ozone nonattainment area, certification that existing Air Pollutant Emissions Notice (APEN) program fulfills the CAA’s emission statement rule requirement, and new requirement for annual certification of APEN reported emissions).