EPA Region 2 entered into a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under the CWA and the APA in Center for Biological Diversity v. EPA, No. 21-71306 (9th Cir.), which would require the Agency to take specified steps with respect to implementation of the 2021 pesticide general permit (PGP), complete ESA consultation of the 2026 PGP, and propose for public comment certain changes to its monitoring and recordkeeping provisions.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under the CWA and the APA in Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. v. U.S. EPA , No. 1:20-cv-2529 (D.D.C.), which would require the Agency to take steps regarding its oversight and funding of Pennsylvania’s efforts under its CWA programs to reduce nutrient and sediment discharges within the state’s portion of the Bay watershed and evaluate by the end of 2026 how each Bay state fared in meeting the 2025 Goal set forward in the last Chesapeake Bay Agreement.

The Internal Revenue Service proposed regulations regarding the federal income tax credit for the purchase of qualifying new clean vehicles, including new plug-in electric vehicles powered by an electric battery meeting certain requirements and new qualified fuel cell vehicles, under the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.

The DOE Biological and Environmental Research Program seeks public input on the need for and the structure of a unified data framework that links or integrates existing data activities relating to research on biological systems, bioenergy, environmental science, and Earth system science.

The Federal Highway Administration seeks public input on the implementation of §60505, Environmental Review Implementation Funds, of the Inflation Reduction Act.

United States v. San Diego, California, County of, No. 3:22-cv-01753-JO-NLS (S.D. Cal. Apr. 7, 2023). A settling CERCLA defendant must undertake a non-time-critical removal action to address site contamination and reimburse the United States’ past and future response costs in connection with releases or threats of releases of hazardous substances at or from the Ramona Burn Dump Site in San Diego County, California, in the Palomar Ranger District of the Cleveland National Forest.

In re Maxus Energy Corp., No. 16-11501(CTG) (Bankr. D. Del. Apr. 7, 2023). Under a proposed settlement agreement, settling CERCLA and RCRA defendants must pay $185 million to resolve claims concerning response actions and natural resource damages at Superfund sites in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Kearny, New Jersey; Painesville, Ohio; and Tuscaloosa, Alabama.

EPA approved the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection's request to revise or modify certain of its Agency-authorized programs to allow electronic reporting.