Air (generally)
Georgia: Air
March 2024
Volume
54
Issue
5
Update Volume
54
Update Issue
8

The Environmental Protection Division proposed amendments to regulations governing air quality control. The amendments would specify the dollar-per-ton rate for annual emissions fees, reference the Fee Manual for state fiscal year 2025 fees, and change the date that administrative fees start being calculated. A hearing will be held April 1, 2024. Comments are due April 8, 2024. See https://epd.georgia.gov/chapter-391-3-1-air-quality-control.

89 FR 14760
02/29/2024
Update Type
Final Rules

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. 

Volume
54
Issue
4
Update Volume
54
Update Issue
7
California: Air
January 2024
Volume
54
Issue
3
Update Volume
54
Update Issue
2

The Air Resources Board proposed amendments to regulations governing low carbon fuel standards. The amendments would require a 30% reduction in fuel carbon intensity (CI) by 2030 and a 90% reduction by 2045 from a 2010 baseline, implement a one-time, 5% reduction in the CI benchmark in 2025, eliminate the current exemption for intrastate fossil jet fuel starting in 2028, expand zero emission vehicle infrastructure crediting to the medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sector, and streamline quantification methods and analysis tools for low-carbon fuel production.

Washington: Air
January 2024
Volume
54
Issue
3
Update Volume
54
Update Issue
1

The Department of Ecology adopted amendments to regulations governing hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) and the air quality fee rule. The amendments, among other things, set maximum global warming potential thresholds for HFCs in various applications, establish a refrigerant management program with registration and reporting requirements for owners/operators of large systems, mandate service practices for technicians, amend product labeling and disclosure requirements and establish fees to cover the costs of implementing and enforcing the refrigerant management program.

New Hampshire: Air
January 2024
Volume
54
Issue
3
Update Volume
54
Update Issue
1

The Department of Environmental Services proposed to readopt, with amendments, regulations governing consumer products. The amendments would add an email address in the date coding section and correct citations to Department rules in the reporting requirements section. A hearing will be held January 11, 2024. Comments are due January 19, 2024. See https://gencourt.state.nh.us/rules/register/2023/1214/2023-285%20IP%20Notice%20Env-A%204100.pdf.

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