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EPA Plans ‘Comprehensive’ Guide for State ‘Minor Source’ NSR Permitting

EPA is crafting a new draft guide that will set out “comprehensive” details on how states should administer “minor source” new source review (NSR) air permits, and is also seeking to more clearly define pollution sources’ “potential to emit” (PTE) -- a concept common to various Clean Air Act provisions -- a top air office official told state regulators last week.
Awaiting High Court, San Francisco Faces New EPA Enforcement Over CSOs

Warning of “widespread failures,” EPA and California are bringing a new enforcement action against the City and County of San Francisco for permit violations stemming from operations of two combined sewer systems, even as the municipality waits for the Supreme Court to decide on whether it will review its separate case challenging federal limits at one of the systems.

Groups Vow To Sue EPA Over Failure To Issue CWA Waterbody ‘Report Cards’

A coalition of environmental groups has filed a notice of intent (NOI) to sue EPA over its failure to craft water quality inventories that the Clean Water Act (CWA) requires it to submit to Congress every other year, while separately pressing the agency in an informal letter to address what they say are other major flaws in the water program.

EPA Revises Funds For States’ LSL Replacements Following ‘Needs’ Debate

EPA has released long-awaited state-level allotments of Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) funds earmarked for replacement of lead service lines (LSL), based in part on new data states provided last year following a backlash against an earlier proposal that many officials said would have been out of line with their actual LSL burdens.

From Climate Extra
9th Circuit Panel Grants DOJ Push To End Youth Climate Suit Before Trial

A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit is granting the Justice Department’s (DOJ) request to dismiss youth plaintiffs’ long-running constitutional climate case against the federal government before a lower court can hold their long-sought trial, dealing a major blow to the plaintiffs.

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