Regents of the University of Minnesota v. United States, No. 17-cv-3690 (D. Minn. June 21, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, a settling CERCLA defendant would pay $13,000,000 for environmental response actions and payment of response costs at a property owned by the University of Minnesota and formerly part of the Gopher Ordnance Works Site. 

EPA approved Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation’s request to update the method of delegations and continue the delegations of authority to implement and enforce NESHAPs and NESHAPs for source categories. 

EPA entered into a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA that provides for the performance of response actions and the payment for certain response costs incurred by the United States and the state of Colorado in connection with the Broderick Wood Products Superfund site. 

EPA proposed amendments to several new source performance standards and NESHAPs under the CAA; the amendments would remove the affirmative defense provisions associated with violation of emission standards due to malfunctions.

SIP Proposal: Indiana (revision to monitoring and compliance requirements for certain process heater stacks at Safety-Kleen Oil Recovery Company in Lake County). 

SIP Proposal: Idaho (miscellaneous changes).

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration amended the Hazardous Materials Regulations to require railroads that carry hazardous materials to generate in electronic form, maintain, and provide to first responders, emergency response officials, and law enforcement personnel, certain information regarding hazardous materials in rail transportation to enhance emergency response and investigative efforts. 

United States v. Pope Resources, No. 3:24-cv-05470 (W.D. Wash. June 13, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree concerning the release of hazardous substances from the former Pope & Talbot sawmill facility in Kitsap County, Washington, settling CERCLA and CWA defendants must construct, implement, maintain, and monitor a habitat restoration project; fund future long-term maintenance, monitoring, and stewardship of the project; and pay past and estimated future costs for natural resource damages assessment and restoration implementation and oversight. 

EPA identified certain additional water quality-limited segments for the Arkansas 2020 §303(d) list, and seeks comment on those additions. 

EPA granted a request from the governor of Texas to voluntarily reclassify the San Antonio, Dallas-Fort Worth, and Houston-Galveston-Brazoria ozone nonattainment areas from moderate to serious for the 2015 ozone NAAQS.