EPA tentatively approved revisions to Delaware’s Public Water System Supervision Program concerning drinking water regulations for the Stage 1 Disinfectants and Disinfection Byproduct Rule. 

United States v. Crowley Marine Services, Inc., No. 2:24-cv-00307 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 7, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling CERCLA, CWA, and OPA defendants must purchase credits in a habitat restoration project constructed along the Lower Duwamish River, pay a total of $210,000 for natural resource damages, and pay $64,325.63 to reimburse assessment costs in connection with natural resource damages caused by releases of hazardous substances and discharges of oil from facilities located along and near the river. 

DOE notified interested parties of its intent to launch a Voluntary Carbon Dioxide Removal Purchasing Challenge. 

FWS designated critical habitat for 12 endangered species on the island of Hawai‘i under the ESA. 

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration and NRC jointly seek comments on issues concerning requirements in the International Atomic Energy Agency regulations for the safe transport of radioactive materials. 

FWS designated approximately 1,160,625 acres in 13 Florida counties as critical habitat for the Florida bonneted bat under the ESA.

EPA Region 4 reissued the NPDES general permit for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category located and discharging to the outer continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.

EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft document titled “EPA Criteria for Product Category Rules to Support the Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials.” 

FWS removed the Florida golden aster from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants due to recovery.