EPA proposed to amend the NESHAP for the commercial sterilization facilities source category pursuant to the technology review for certain point source emissions and the risk review to specifically address ethylene oxide emissions from point source and room air emissions from all commercial sterilization facilities.
FWS proposed to designate approximately 683,405 acres in Alabama, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia as critical habitat for the rufa red knot under the ESA.
United States v. Gary, Indiana, City of, No. 20-cv-386 (N.D. Ind. Apr. 6, 2023). Under a proposed first amendment to a consent decree, a settling CAA defendant must undertake a suite of improvements to its gas collection and control system, including replacement of the existing flare and system upgrades to actively collect, rather than passively vent, landfill gas; carry out enhanced monitoring and maintenance requirements; and follow certain standard operating procedures in connection with alleged violations relating to a closed landfill owned and operated by the city.
SIP Approval: Mississippi (update to materials incorporated by reference).
SIP Proposal: California (partial approval and partial disapproval of revisions to reasonably available control technology requirements for the 2008 eight-hour ozone NAAQS in the portion of the Sacramento Metropolitan nonattainment area subject to the Yolo-Solano Air Quality Management District's jurisdiction).
SIP Approval: Illinois (revisions related to the control of volatile organic compound emissions from aerospace manufacturing and rework facilities).
SIP Proposal: Connecticut (updates to new source review procedural requirements, substantive review criteria, and provisions related to the control of volatile organic compounds).
FWS proposed to remove the Colorado hookless cactus from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants under the ESA due to recovery.
FWS determined threated species status for the bracted twistflower under the ESA, designated approximately 1,596 acres in Texas as critical habitat, and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the species.
DOE proposed to revise its regulations regarding procedures for calculating a value for the petroleum-equivalent fuel economy of electric vehicles for use in the Corporate Average Fuel Economy program administered by DOT.