EPA announced the availability of revised guidelines for eligible recipients (states, territories, and the District of Columbia) awarded federal grants under §319 of the CWA for the implementation of nonpoint source management programs.

United States v. Westchester Joint Water Works, No. 24 Civ. 4783 (S.D.N.Y. June 24, 2024). Under a proposed consent decree, settling SDWA defendants that violated maximum contaminant level set by EPA for certain disinfectant byproducts in drinking water, as well as a related administrative order requiring construction of a water filtration plant by specified deadlines, must (1) build and commence operation of a drinking water filtration plant by July 1, 2029; (2) implement measures to ensure the safety of its water supply until the filtration plant is operational; (3) pay a total of $1,250,000 in civil penalties; and (4) spend at least $900,000 on a supplemental environmental project to improve source water quality and at least $6,800,000 on two state water quality benefit projects. 

SIP Proposal: Pennsylvania (revisions establishing reasonably available control technology requirements for the 2008 and 2015 ozone NAAQS for each category of volatile organic compound sources covered by EPA’s 2016 control techniques guidelines for the oil and gas industry). 

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. 

FWS determined threatened species status under the ESA for the Suwannee alligator snapping turtle and finalized a rule issued under §4(d) of the Act that provides for the conservation of the species. 

EPA approved the 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 to amend a provision of the technology transitions regulations promulgated under the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act to allows one additional year, until January 1, 2027, solely for the installation of new residential and light commercial air conditioning and heat pump variable refrigerant flow systems that are 65,000 British thermal units per hour or greater using components manufactured in the United States or imported prior to January 1, 2026. 

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.

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.