EPA Region 4 reissued the NPDES general permit for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the offshore subcategory of the oil and gas extraction point source category located and discharging to the outer continental shelf of the eastern Gulf of Mexico.
SIP Approval: California (nonattainment fees in the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District).
EPA lowered the level of the primary annual fine particulate matter standard and finalized other key aspects related to the particulate matter NAAQS.
EPA finalized maximum achievable control technology standards for mercury and revised emission standards for hydrogen chloride and hydrogen fluoride for NESHAPs for taconite iron ore processing.
EPA entered into a proposed consent decree in Our Children’s Earth Foundation v. Regan, No. 3:23-cv-04955-WHA (N.D. Cal.), that would establish deadlines for EPA to sign a notice of final rulemaking on certain SIP revisions.
EPA announced the availability of and seeks comment on a draft document titled “EPA Criteria for Product Category Rules to Support the Label Program for Low Embodied Carbon Construction Materials.”
FWS removed the Florida golden aster from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants due to recovery.
The Montana Supreme Court, 5-2, reversed a lower court order that revoked the Montana Department of Environmental Quality's (MDEQ's) approval of a permit for construction and operation of a proposed copper mine. Conservation groups argued MDEQ's issuance of the permit violated the state's Metal Mine...