NMFS seeks stakeholder input to inform the operationalization of the national Equity and Environmental Justice Strategy in the Southeast region.

United States v. Upstate Shredding, LLC, No. 3:23-cv-847 (N.D.N.Y. July 13, 2023). Settling CAA defendants must pay a civil penalty of $400,000, plus interest accruing from the date of entry to the payment date; and install pollution control technology to limit future emissions of volatile organic compounds in connection with alleged excess emissions of volatile organic compounds at the defendants’ metal shredding facility in Owego, New York.

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management released the final notice of sale for commercial wind energy leasing on the outer continental shelf in the Gulf of Mexico. 

SIP Proposal: Arkansas (revisions concerning excess emissions during startup, shutdown, and malfunction events).

EPA determined that the West Pinal County, Arizona, nonattainment area failed to attain the 1987 24-hour particulate matter NAAQS by the applicable attainment date.

The Office of Natural Resources Revenue republished and revised certain subparts of its regulations to implement an order and judgment from the United States District Court for the District of Wyoming that vacated the federal and Indian coal valuation provisions of the 2016 Consolidated Federal Oil & Gas and Federal & Indian Coal Valuation Reform rule.

EPA removed the “emergency” affirmative defense provisions from the Agency’s title V operating permit program regulations.

SIP Proposal: California (limited approval and limited disapproval of revisions concerning particulate matter emissions from all sources of air pollution emissions in the Mojave Desert Air Quality Management District).

The Department of Commerce, via NOAA, seeks input on how to enhance NOAA’s delivery of climate data, information, science, and tools and ensure that this delivery is equitable and accounts for the needs and priorities of a diverse set of user communities as they engage in climate preparedness, adaptation, and resilience planning.

EPA provided notice of its final action entitled "July 2023 Denial of Petitions for RFS Small Refinery Exemptions," in which the Agency denied 26 small refinery exemption petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program.