SIP Proposal: Pennsylvania (reasonably available control technology determinations for Hydro Carbide Tool Company's case-by-case sources under the 1997 and 2008 eight-hour ozone NAAQS). 

FWS initiated a five-year status review of the northern long-eared bat under the ESA. 

EPA established new limits on the scientific data that can be considered in Agency rulemaking to exclude private data that cannot be independently validated. 

EPA proposed updates and adjustments to the 2018 fees rule established under TSCA. 

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA for the recovery of response costs associated with the Delta Shipyard Superfund site in Houma, Terrebonne Parish, Louisiana.

The president issued Exec. Order No. 13973, Providing an Order of Succession Within the Environmental Protection Agency; the order lists EPA officials to act as and perform the functions and duties of the office of the Agency Administrator during any period in which the Administrator and the Deputy Administrator have died, resigned, or otherwise become unable to perform the functions and duties of the office.

United States v. LaPant, No. 2:16-cv-01498-KJM-DB (E.D. Cal. Jan. 19, 2021). A settling CWA defendant that discharged pollutants without a permit into waters of the United States must pay a civil penalty, effectuate compensatory mitigation, and be subject to other injunctive relief.

United States v. Stericycle, Inc., No. 1:21-cv-00012-JNP (D. Utah Jan. 29, 2021). A settling CAA defendant that violated emission limits for nitrogen oxides at its medical waste incinerator in the ozone nonattainment area of North Salt Lake, Utah, among other related violations, must pay a $600,000 civil penalty and conduct a supplemental environmental project to replace 15-20 pre-2006 diesel school buses with low emitting models at an estimated cost of $2,000,000.

SIP Approval: Maryland (negative declaration for sewage sludge incineration units).

SIP Proposal: Indiana (revisions to sulfur dioxide rules for Lake County).