EPA Region 2 entered into a proposed cost recovery settlement agreement under CERCLA concerning the Gowanus Canal Superfund site in Brooklyn, New York.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management seeks comment on possible commercial wind energy leasing on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Maine.

SIP Approval: Oklahoma (revisions related to excess emissions during startup, shutdown, and malfunction events).

SIP Proposal: Missouri (partial approval and partial disapproval of revisions to 2016 administrative order for controlling sulfur dioxide emissions at the Lake Road power plant).

The National Credit Union Administration seeks public input on current and future climate and natural disaster risks to federally insured credit unions (FICUs), related entities, their members, and the National Credit Union Share Insurance Fund, and on the development of potential future guidance, regulation, reporting requirements, and/or supervisory approaches for FICUs’ management of climate-related financial risks.

United States v. LLOG Exploration Offshore, L.L.C., No. 2:23-cv-01301-WBV-KWR (E.D. La. Apr. 19, 2022). A settling OPA defendant must pay the United States $3.1 million in connection with a crude oil spill that occurred at the Mississippi Canyon Block 209 subsea oil production system in the Gulf of Mexico beginning on or about October 11, 2017.

FWS determined threatened species status for the Wright’s marsh thistle under the ESA, designated approximately 156.8 acres in New Mexico as critical habitat, and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the species.

EPA approved amendments to the Mohegan Tribe of Indians of Connecticut tribal implementation plan under the CAA to regulate air pollution within the exterior boundaries of the tribe’s reservation, including permitting requirements for minor sources of air pollution not covered by the tribe’s existing federally approved new source review permitting program.

SIP Approval: Oklahoma (revisions addressing open burning, emission controls for volatile organic compounds (VOC), and specialty coatings VOC content limits).

EPA proposed amendments to new source performance standards that apply to the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (SOCMI) and to NESHAPs that apply to the SOCMI and Group I and II Polymers and Resins Industries.