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Texas and industry groups are clashing with EPA over the effect of the Supreme Court’s recent rulings on judicial deference and the proper conditions for staying a regulation, as the agency continues to defend its decision placing part of the state in “nonattainment” with the 2010 federal limit for sulfur dioxide (SO2).

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A progressive think tank is pressing federal agencies to use EPA’s updated social cost of carbon (SCC) climate damages estimates to inform an array of rules and other decisions, after the White House has stalled an effort by its interagency working group (IWG) to craft a unified federal metric and instead urged agencies to use values based on “professional judgment.”

Sierra Club and other groups are threatening to sue EPA and the Department of Energy (DOE) over the agency’s controversial and precedential Trump-era decision, since upheld by the Biden administration, easing Clean Water Act (CWA) requirements for DOE’s Superfund cleanup at the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) in Tennessee.

EPA’s largest employee union is calling for a “situational telework” option amid reports of a Legionella outbreak and lead contamination in drinking water across agency buildings in multiple cities, charging that officials have an obligation to address the health concern, which can become airborne and deadly.

Manufacturers of wood stoves and similar devices are urging EPA to back out of a proposed consent decree deal with states that would set a “compressed” timetable for the agency to update its new source performance standards (NSPS) for the sector, saying a “rushed” approach would undermine the improvements in testing EPA is seeking.

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