89 FR 15035
SIP Approval: California (revisions to requirements for the 2008 and 2015 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the San Diego County ozone nonattainment area).
SIP Approval: California (revisions to requirements for the 2008 and 2015 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the San Diego County ozone nonattainment area).
SIP Proposal: Tennessee (revisions to add exemptions to opacity monitoring requirements).
Since passage of the early natural resource protection laws and regulations in the United States decades ago, legal, technical, and economic practitioners have been challenged with understanding the ever-changing and ever-evolving environmental law and policy landscape. Riveting changes have advanced the position of natural resources and related matters of conservation and biodiversity across domestic and international agendas, in corporate, government, and public interest agendas, and in the lives of everyday citizens.
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).
In an unpublished opinion, the Ninth Circuit vacated a district court's judgment reinstating a 2016 moratorium on new coal leasing on public lands that was lifted by a DOI secretarial order in 2017. Environmental groups, several states, and a tribe argued BLM's final EA and FONSI violated NEPA. DOI ...