United States v. American Commercial Barge Line LLC, No. 2:21-cv-01818 (E.D. La. Oct. 4, 2021). A settling OPA defendant that discharged oil from its barge into the Mississippi River must effect the transfer of title and preservation of approximately 649 acres of forested woodland habitat in Plaquemines Parish, Louisana, and choose to either pay $2,071,212 to the federal trustees or acquire the equivalent of the natural resources allegedly injured as a result of the oil spill.

NOAA announced that the Deepwater Horizon federal natural resource trustee agencies for the regionwide trustee implementation group prepared the "Final Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment 1: Birds, Marine Mammals, Oysters, and Sea Turtles" and FONSI in accordance with OPA, NEPA, and a consent decree with BP Exploration and Production Inc.

United States v. Enbridge Energy, Ltd. Partnership, No. 1:16-cv-914 (W.D. Mich. Sept. 15, 2021). A proposed sixth modification to a consent decree under the CWA and OPA revises certain established maximum operating pressure values, adds new provisions directly restricting operating pressures on pipelines subject to the consent decree, and requires the defendants to use new pipe wall thickness information to identify any additional features that meet consent decree dig selection criteria. 

EPA amended the requirements in Subpart J of the National Oil and Hazardous Substances Pollution Contingency Plan (NCP) that govern the use of dispersants, other chemicals, and other spill mitigating substances when responding to oil discharges into waters of the United States.

United States v. Kirby Inland Marine, LP, No. 3:21-cv-00180 (S.D. Tex. July 13, 2021). A settling OPA defendant that injured natural resources by discharging oil from a barge during a collision must pay $2,102,115.22.

United States v. CITGO Petroleum Corp., No. 2:21-cv-1705 (W.D. La. June 17, 2021). A settling OPA defendant that injured natural resources by discharging oil into the Indian Marais waterway, the Calcasieu River, and the Calcasieu Estuary from its refinery in Lake Charles, Louisiana, must pay $19.16 million to restore, replace, or acquire the equivalent of the natural resources allegedly injured, destroyed, or lost as a result of the oil spill and $528,149.83 to reimburse all remaining unpaid assessment costs.

United States v. Nippon Paper Industries USA Co., Ltd., No. 21-cv-5204 (W.D. Wash. Mar. 22, 2021). Settling CERCLA, CWA, OPA, and Model Toxics Control Act defendants must pay to address damages and reimburse past assessment costs at the Western Port Angeles Harbor site. 

Under a proposed settlement agreement, a settling OPA and CWA defendant that discharged 30,000-53,000 gallons of denatured ethanol into and near the Mississippi River must pay $282,391 to the DOI Natural Resource Damage Assessment and Restoration Fund to be used for restoration activities to compensate the public for recreational and aquatic injuries. 

United States v. Vigor Industrial, LLC, No. 21-44 (W.D. Wash. Jan. 14, 2021). Under CERCLA, OPA, and the CWA, settling defendants that damaged natural resources by releasing and discharging hazardous substances and oil from the Vigor Shipyards facility must construct, monitor, and maintain in perpetuity two habitat restoration projects at the facility, and pay $815,816.59.