In re Motors Liquidation Corp., No. 09-50026 (REG) (Bankr. S.D.N.Y. Mar. 4, 2011). Settling CAA, CERCLA, and RCRA parties responsible for violations at multiple facilities and sites nationwide must pay $4,613,322 from bonds, with an additional $10.5 million in bond requirements for six non-owned sites, must provide the United States with an allowed general unsecured claim of $36,290,270 for environmental remediation at 29 non-owned sites, and must pay civil penalties for violations at multiregional sites. 

United States v. Manzo, No. 3:97-cv-00289 (D.N.J. Mar. 2, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Burnt Fly Bog Superfund site in Middlesex and Monmouth Counties, New Jersey, must pay $19.025 million in U.S. response costs and natural resource damages incurred at the site.

United States v. Arch Coal, Inc., No. 2:11-cv-00133 (S.D. W. Va. Mar. 1, 2011). Settling CWA defendants that discharged pollutants into waters of the United States in Kentucky and West Virginia must pay a $4 million civil penalty and must perform various injunctive relief measures.

United States v. SKF USA Inc., No. 3:09-cv-00174 (W.D. Pa. Feb. 25, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Barefoot Disposal Superfund site in Blair County, Pennsylvania, must pay $575,000 in past U.S. response costs incurred at the site and limited future response costs.

United States v. JELD-WEN, Inc., No. 1:10-CV-494-PA (D. Or. Feb. 17, 2011). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the Circle DE Lumber Superfund site in Klamath Falls, Oregon, must pay $700,000 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site.

EPA seeks public comment on the addition of a vapor intrusion component to the Hazard Ranking System for CERCLA's NPL.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling parties to pay past and future U.S. response costs incurred at the D'Imperio Property Superfund site in Hamilton Township, New Jersey.

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement under CERCLA that requires the settling party to pay U.S. response costs incurred at the Peach Orchard Road Groundwater Plume site in Augusta, Georgia.

EPA proposed to grant a petition submitted by Gulf West Landfill to delist the leachate generated at its facility in Anahuac, Texas, from the lists of hazardous wastes.

EPA proposed to deny a petition submitted by the Sierra Club to reconsider its final rule on oil-bearing hazardous secondary materials.