FEMA issued a final rule to implement the Federal Flood Risk Management Standard and update the agency's eight-step decisionmaking process for floodplain reviews. 

The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) adopted a categorical exclusion established by DOE that covers a category of actions PHMSA proposes to take.

NRC proposed to amend its regulations on categorical exclusions for licensing, regulatory, and administrative actions that individually or cumulatively do not have a significant effect on the human environment by eliminating the preparation of EAs for such NRC actions.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) adopted 18 categorical exclusions established by DOE pursuant to NEPA to use for proposed DHS actions.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Olin Chemical Superfund Site in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

EPA entered into a proposed settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Olin Chemical Superfund Site in Wilmington, Massachusetts.

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 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. 

DOE seeks information to carry out its responsibilities under Exec. Order No. 14091, Further Advancing Racial Equity and Support for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government, to update to its Equity Action Plan.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration finalized corporate average fuel economy standards for passenger cars, light trucks, heavy-duty pickup trucks, and vans.