🌱EPA Proposes Renewable Fuel Standards Changes for 2026 and 2027
On June 17, 2025, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed volumes and percentage standards for four categories of renewable fuel that would apply to obligated parties in 2026 and 2027 under the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. On August 22, 2025, the EPA issued decisions on 175 small refinery exemption (SRE) petitions under the RFS program. This supplemental proposal takes into consideration the expected impacts of the SRE decisions issued. Based on this information, the EPA is co-proposing additional volumes in 2026 and 2027 representing complete (100 percent) reallocation and 50 percent reallocation for SREs granted in full or in part for 2023 and 2024, as well as those projected to be granted for 2025, as part of the ongoing RFS rulemaking. The EPA is also providing more information on its projection of SREs to inform the calculation of the 2026 and 2027 percentage standards.
Learn More⛽Hawaii UST Program Amendment Approval Overview
On March 7, 2022, the State of Hawaii (Hawaii or State) received final approval, from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), of revisions to its Underground Storage Tank Program (UST Program) under subtitle I of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Pursuant to RCRA, the EPA is taking direct final action, subject to public comment, to amend its final approval of the UST Program. The amendment clarifies the statutory provisions that are part of the approved UST Program and identifies some additional statutory provisions that are broader in scope and not part of the approved UST Program. This action also codifies the EPA's approval of Hawaii's revised UST Program and incorporates by reference those provisions of the State statutes and regulations that the EPA has determined meet the requirements for approval.
Learn More🛢️EPA Approves Hawaii's Underground Storage Tank Program Revisions
On March 7, 2022, the State of Hawaii (Hawaii or State) received Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) final approval of revisions to its Underground Storage Tank Program (UST Program) under subtitle I of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Pursuant to RCRA, the EPA is proposing to amend its final approval of the Hawaii UST Program to clarify the statutory provisions that are part of the approved UST Program and identify some additional statutory provisions that are broader in scope and not part of the approved UST Program. This action also proposes to codify the EPA's approval of Hawaii's revised UST Program and to incorporate by reference the State statutes and regulations that the EPA has determined meet the requirements for approval.
Learn More🌬️EPA Approves Guam Air Plan
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing an approval of a revision to the Guam state implementation plan (SIP). This revision governs the Guam Environmental Protection Agency's (GEPA) issuance of permits for stationary sources and focuses on the preconstruction review and permitting of major sources and major modifications under the Clean Air Act (CAA or "the Act").
Learn More⚠️EPA Extends TCE Compliance Deadlines for Nuclear Fuel Production
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is taking interim final action on the Regulation of Trichloroethylene (TCE) under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to revise certain compliance deadlines finalized in 2024. Specifically, EPA is amending the prohibition compliance date for the use of TCE as a processing aid in the manufacture of nuclear fuel, with corresponding changes to the compliance dates for the manufacturing, processing and distribution in commerce of TCE to support such use, to a prohibition on September 15, 2028. EPA is also amending the prohibition compliance date for the disposal of TCE to wastewater by processors of TCE and processors and industrial and commercial users of TCE as a processing aid, to begin on December 18, 2026. EPA is also amending the compliance deadline for downstream notification, and the text required to be present in Safety Data Sheets, to accurately reflect the new prohibition compliance deadline for TCE used as a processing aid in the manufacture of nuclear fuel. EPA is amending this compliance deadline to allow for 90 days after the publication of the final rule for manufacturers, processors, and distributors in commerce of TCE to make such a change. These revisions are necessary to address new information presented to EPA about inadvertent oversights in the original rulemaking and serious concerns that the facilities at issue will be unable to comply with the relevant requirements by the existing deadlines. EPA is requesting comments on all aspects of this interim final rule and will consider all comments received in determining whether amendments to this rule are appropriate after the conclusion of the comment period.
Learn More🚢New Navigation Regulations for Illinois River by Coast Guard
The Coast Guard is establishing a regulated navigation area for certain waters of the Illinois River. This action is necessary to provide for the safety of human health and the environment on these navigable waters near Naplate, IL due to an Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Alternative Site. This rulemaking prohibits persons and vessels from anchoring or pushing their vessels onto the bank of the river in the regulated navigation area unless authorized by the Captain of the Port Sector Lake Michigan or a designated representative, or in the event of an emergency.
Learn More🌍EPA Proposes Removal of Greenhouse Gas Reporting Requirements
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to amend the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) to remove program obligations for most source categories, including the distribution segment of the petroleum and natural gas systems source category (subpart W--Petroleum and Natural Gas Systems), and suspend program obligations for the remaining subpart W segments until reporting year 2034.
Learn More🌊Arizona UIC Program Regulations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is approving an application from the State of Arizona (the State) that requests primary enforcement responsibility (primacy) for Class I-VI injection wells under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) section 1422. The EPA's approval of the State's UIC program primacy application will allow the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) to authorize underground injection for all underground injection wells regulated under the SDWA within the State's jurisdiction and ensure compliance with UIC program requirements. The EPA will remain the permitting authority for all well classes on Indian lands within the State, except for Class II wells on Navajo Indian lands for which the EPA has granted the Navajo Nation primacy for the SDWA Class II UIC program.
Learn More🌊Gulf of America Renaming
This final rule will, throughout the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement's regulations, rename the area formerly known as the Gulf of Mexico (GOM) as the Gulf of America (GOA). The Gulf of America is the U.S. Continental Shelf area bounded on the northeast, north, and northwest by the States of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida and extending to the seaward boundary with Mexico and Cuba.
Learn More🌬️EPA Proposes Air Quality Rule for San Joaquin Valley Businesses
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing to approve a revision to the San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District (SJVUAPCD or "District") portion of the California State Implementation Plan (SIP) concerning a rule submitted to address section 185 of the Clean Air Act (CAA or the "Act") with respect to the revoked 1997 8-hour ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS or "standard"). We are proposing action on this local rule that was submitted as an equivalent alternative to a statutory section 185 program. We are taking comments on this proposal and plan to follow with a final action.
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