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EPA Weighs Options For Listing NPL Sites Due To Vapor Intrusion Pathway

EPA is weighing options for how it could add sites to the Superfund National Priority List (NPL) due solely to exposures from toxic vapors that escape from underground contamination sources, a new exposure pathway the agency has estimated could result in an additional 37 sites being added to the list. According to EPA and other sources, the agency is weighing whether to amend its regulation governing how it screens the hazard potential of contaminated sites -- known as the Hazard...

Businesses Urge Florida Delegation To Stall EPA Nutrient Rule

Sen. Nelson Reiterates Call For EPA To Delay Nutrient Rule

Proposed Rule

Fact Sheet

Background Reading: EPA Proposes To Issue Risk-Based Air Toxics Rules For 28 Industrial Sectors

Activists Seek Pollutant-Specific Limits In New EPA Water Antidegradation Rules

Environmentalists are outlining a series of new antidegradation requirements they want to see as part of EPA’s revision to its water quality standards rule, including pollutant-specific standards to define impaired waters, stricter oversight of antidegradation implementation plans and more public participation in state regulatory efforts. In recent comments submitted to EPA, environmentalists also seek broader requirements for states to include so-called Tier I implementation methods in antidegradation regulations. Activists say that explicit Tier I requirements are necessary to immediately provide...

EPA Faces Legal Pressures To Make Decision On Landmark Antidegradation Plan

Environmentalists are asking a federal court to force EPA to finalize its review of an antidegredation implementation plan submitted nearly a year ago by the state of Kentucky, a move that could eventually set a precedent for what the agency requires in other state programs to protect pristine waters. The environmentalists’ suit could also have key regional impacts as activists hope the agency’s review will result in a re-write of the state’s antidegredation rules to remove loopholes they say allow...

Ruling

DOJ Appeal

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Wisconsin Site Report

Delaware Site Report

Indiana Site Report

Louisiana Site Report

New York Site Report

Pennsylvania Site Report

Chairman's Memo

Transcript of Public Meeting

EPA Sees Costly Effects From Strict New Dioxin Cleanups, Irking Industry

EPA is anticipating that its strict new cleanup targets for dioxin-contaminated soils could prompt broad new cleanup requirements across its Superfund program, including difficult-to-implement remedies, new evaluations at a host of Superfund sites and costly new testing requirements, according to internal EPA documents obtained by Inside EPA . The document is prompting criticism from industry officials who say the agency has rejected requests to assess the cost of its new goals, which could undermine redevelopment of contaminated sites during the...

Inside Cal/EPA - 09/17/2010

Ninth Circuit Rejects California Air District Challenge To LNG Permit California Officials Relax SF6 GHG Rule On Utilities Ninth Circuit Affirms Rejection Of California Air District Railroad Rules California Toxics Officials Release Revised Draft Green Chemistry Regulations California Waste Department Floats New Regulatory Fee For Landfills California Air Districts Release Report Quantifying GHG-Reduction Measures California Regulators Float Plan For Commercial Recycling GHG Rule

IG Suggests EPA National Model To Boost Water Permit Enforcement Pacts

EPA's Inspector General (IG) is suggesting that the agency craft a national model for a memorandum of agreement (MOA) between states and EPA on implementing and enforcing delegated Clean Water Act (CWA) permitting authority, which could address the IG's findings that most MOAs are out of date and hinder effective permitting oversight. While EPA says it agrees many of the existing state-EPA MOAs are outdated, agency officials stress that the agreements are not the only method for ensuring effective state...

Industry Cites Citizen Suit Threat In Urging Court To Block EPA GHG Rules

A broad coalition of industry groups is urging a federal appeals court to stay numerous EPA greenhouse gas GHG) regulations due to concern that the agency will be unable to prevent citizen lawsuits next year against numerous stationary sources because of a timing “gap” in implementing the agency's rule to limit permit rules to large emitters. The citizen suit vulnerability claim by industry opponents of the EPA GHG rules is a strategy for them to meet a legal test to...

EPA Issues New Chemical Test Plan

EPA has issued a final rule revising the process for enforceable consent agreements (ECAs), which allow the agency to avoid promulgating a regulation when it wants industry to conduct new chemicals testing -- an effort aimed at making the development of ECAs more efficient. The agency published the final rule in the Sept. 16 Federal Register . The rule changes how EPA initiates discussion about the ECAs and will provide a firm deadline to end negotiations over the agreements. EPA...