FWS determined threatened species status for the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl under the ESA, and finalized a rule under §4(d) of the Act to provide for conservation of the subspecies.

EPA amended existing regulations to implement certain provisions of the American Innovation and Manufacturing Act by establishing the methodology for allocating hydrofluorocarbon production and consumption allowances for the calendar years of 2024 through 2028, revising the consumption baseline to reflect updated data, and making other adjustments based on lessons learned from implementation of the hydrofluorocarbon phasedown program thus far.

EPA identified certain additional water quality-limited segments for West Virginia’s Combined 2018-2020-2022 Section 303(d) list and seeks comment on those additions.

EPA proposed to approve Indiana’s state plan to control air pollutants from municipal solid waste landfills.

United States v. Boise Cascade Corp., No. 97-cv-1704 (TJM) (N.D.N.Y. July 12, 2023). A proposed second amendment to a consent decree includes an ability-to-pay-cash-out settlement with one of the settling CERCLA defendants in which it will pay $150,000 and be removed as a settling defendant responsible for future work and costs at the Sealand Superfund Restoration site in Lisbon, New York.

EPA announced a proposed administrative settlement agreement under CERCLA and RCRA concerning the Delphi 1 Anderson Site in Anderson, Indiana.

FWS removed the golden paintbrush from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants as it no longer meets the definition of an endangered or threatened species under the ESA.

FWS proposed to designate approximately 8,870 acres in Florida, Hawaii, the U.S. Virgin Islands, American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Northern Mariana Islands, the Midway Islands, and Palmyra Atoll as critical habitat for five distinct population segments of the green sea turtle under the ESA.

NMFS proposed to designate specific areas in the marine environment, including nearshore areas along the coasts of Florida, North Carolina, Texas, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, California, Hawaii, American Samoa, Guam, and the Commonwealth of Northern Mariana Islands, and Sargassum habitat in the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean, as critical habitat for six distinct population segments of the green sea turtle under the ESA.

EPA Region 10 proposed to modify the NPDES general permit for concentrated animal feeding operations in Idaho excluding tribal lands.