89 FR 16820
EPA finalized multiple actions to reduce air pollution emissions from the crude oil and natural gas source category.
EPA finalized multiple actions to reduce air pollution emissions from the crude oil and natural gas source category.
EPA removed the one-pound per square inch Reid vapor pressure waiver for summer gasoline-ethanol blended fuels containing 10% ethanol in Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, Ohio, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, in response to petitions from those states.
SIP Proposal: Connecticut (source monitoring, recordkeeping and reporting requirements).
SIP Approval: California (revisions related to excess emissions during startup, shutdown, and malfunction events in the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District).
SIP Proposal: Oregon (regional haze).
SIP Proposal: Ohio (reinstatement of air nuisance rule).
SIP Proposal: Virginia (amendment to include a newly designated sulfur dioxide nonattainment area).
SIP Proposal: Pennsylvania (disapproval of revisions to address certain reasonably available control technology requirements for the 1997 and 2008 ozone NAAQS for the Keystone, Conemaugh and Homer City electric generating facilities).
EPA proposed to approve a request from the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection for the delegation of authority to implement and enforce the federal plan requirements for municipal solid waste landfills that commenced construction on or before July 17, 2014.
United States v. Apache Corp., No. 24-cv-00149 (D.N.M. Feb. 13, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CAA defendant whose oil and natural gas production facilities in New Mexico and Texas allegedly failed to comply with requirements of the federal new source performance standards must pay a civil penalty of $4,000,000 and perform a project that will offset the excess emissions resulting from the violations.