SIP Proposal: Georgia (limited approval of regional haze plan).

EPA announced the availability of its draft inventory on greenhouse gas emissions and sinks for the period 1990-2010.

EPA proposed to delegate authority to Nevada to implement and enforce NESHAPs. 

EPA delegated authority to Nevada to implement and enforce NESHAPs. 

United States v. Bradley Mining Co., No. 3:08-CV-03968 TEH (N.D. Cal. Feb. 14, 2012). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for U.S. response costs incurred at the Sulphur Bank Mercury Mine Superfund site in Lake County, California, and at the Stibnite Mine Superfund site in Valley County, Idaho, must pay $505,000 from their insurers plus a percentage of future insurance and income, must pay the proceeds from the sale of parcels of land, and must transfer property to the Elem Tribe; settling federal agencies will pay $7.2 million for response costs at the Sulphur Bank site. 

FWS reclassified the status of the spikedace and loach minnow under the ESA from threatened to endangered and revised the designated critical habitats for both species.

In re Wood Treaters, LLC, No. 3:09-bk-01895-PMG (Bankr. M.D. Fla. Feb. 9, 2012). A settling CERCLA defendant responsible for violations at the Fairfax Street Wood Treaters Superfund site in Jacksonville, Florida, must provide the United States with an allowed priority claim of $4,352,672; must pay $70,000 to the United States through their trustee; must pay the United States 25% of proceeds from conversion accounts and recovery claims; and must relinquish all rights to insurance claim proceeds collected by the trustee. 

In re Oil Spill by the Oil Rig Deepwater Horizon, No. MDL 2179 (E.D. La. Feb. 17, 2012). A settling CWA defendant responsible for the discharge of oil into the Gulf of Mexico must pay a $45 million civil penalty to the United States and $25 million to the states of Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas and must perform supplemental environmental projects valued at $20 million in the Gulf states. 

United States v. Dover Chemical Corp., No. 5:12-cv-00292-SL (N.D. Ohio Feb. 7, 2012). A settling TSCA defendant responsible for violations at its chemical manufacturing plants in Hammond, Indiana, and Dover, Ohio, must pay a $1.4 million civil penalty and must not manufacture any chlorinated paraffin product that is not on the TSCA Inventory.

The president called upon all federal agencies to increase efforts in the procurement of biobased and other sustainable products, as required by Executive Order No. 13514 of October 5, 2009, and the the 2002/2008 Farm Bill. 77 FR 10939 (2/24/12).