SIP Approval: New Jersey (exemptions to improve resiliency during emergency situations, updates to hazardous air pollutant reporting thresholds, updates to certification and submission of emission statements, and addition of federal new source review requirements for fine particles).
SIP Approval: California (emissions of particulate matter from wood burning devices in the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District).
SIP Proposal: Florida (miscellaneous changes).
United States v. Coffeyville Resources Refining & Marketing, LLC, No. 6:04-cv-01064 (D. Kan. Nov. 20, 2023). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CAA defendant whose operation of a petroleum refinery in Coffeyville, Kansas, allegedly violated the CAA must undertake various measures to facilitate future compliance with the Act, reduce nitrogen oxide emissions from the refinery's heaters, and build a flare gas recovery system to reduce the refinery's emissions from refinery flares; pay $7 million in stipulated penalties and $6.25 million in civil penalties in total to the United States and the state of Kansas; and spend at least $1 million on an environmentally beneficial project to be approved by the state of Kansas.
EPA announced the availability of applicability determinations, alternative monitoring decisions, and regulatory interpretations with regard to the New Source Performance Standards; NESHAPs; the Emission Guidelines and Federal Plan Requirements for existing sources; and the Stratospheric Ozone Protection Program.
The Fifth Circuit vacated the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's (TCEQ's) order granting a PSD permit for a new liquefied natural gas (LNG) facility in Texas. An environmental group petitioned for review, arguing TCEQ erred by not imposing the same emissions limits for carbon monoxide and n...
EPA finalized amendments to the new source performance standards for secondary lead smelters, and finalized the use of EPA Method 22 (Visual Determination of Fugitive Emissions From Material Sources and Smoke Emissions From Flares) as an alternative for demonstrating compliance with the opacity limit.
SIP Proposal: Kentucky (stationary source emissions monitoring and reporting requirements for Jefferson County).
SIP Proposal: New Hampshire (regional haze).
EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on an Initial Regulatory Flexibility Analysis following the completion of a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel for the proposed New Source Performance Standards for Greenhouse Gas Emissions From New, Modified, and Reconstructed Fossil Fuel-Fired Electric Generating Units.