🌍Environmental Impact Statements
This notice from the Environmental Protection Agency outlines the availability of Environmental Impact Statements (EIS) for various infrastructure projects. It emphasizes the importance of public comments on EISs and provides contact information for businesses interested in these projects, highlighting regulatory compliance requirements and potential impacts on future developments.
Learn More🧪EPA Notice on Draft Risk Evaluation for Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing that there will be two virtual public meetings of the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals (SACC). On November 18, 2025, a preparatory meeting for the SACC to consider the scope and clarity of the draft charge questions for the peer review; and on December 2 through 5, 2025, a peer review meeting for the SACC to consider the octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4) draft risk evaluation, technical support documents, and public comments. EPA is also announcing the availability of and soliciting public comment on the draft documents and charge questions that will be provided to the SACC for this peer review. The draft risk evaluation and technical support documents were prepared under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and will be submitted to the SACC for peer review.
Learn More📊EPA's Proposed Information Collection Request and Compliance Requirements
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is planning to submit the below listed information collection requests (ICRs) to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review and approval in accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA), 44 U.S.C. 3501-3521. Before doing so, the EPA is soliciting public comments on specific aspects of the proposed ICRs as described below. These are proposed extensions of currently approved ICRs. An Agency may not conduct or sponsor a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. Likewise, no person is required to respond to a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number.
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 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⚗️EPA Draft Risk Evaluation on Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (D4)
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA or Agency) is announcing the availability of and seeking public comment on a draft risk evaluation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) for Octamethylcyclotetrasiloxane (Cyclotetrasiloxane, 2,2,4,4,6,6,8,8- octamethyl-) (D4) (CASRN 556-67-2). The purpose of risk evaluations under TSCA is to determine whether a chemical substance presents an unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment under the conditions of use (COUs), including unreasonable risk to potentially exposed or susceptible subpopulations identified as relevant to the risk evaluation by EPA, and without consideration of costs or non-risk factors. EPA used the best available science to prepare this draft risk evaluation and to preliminarily determine, based on the weight of scientific evidence, that D4 poses unreasonable risk to human health and the environment driven primarily by certain conditions of use analyzed in the draft risk evaluation.
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🏚️Implications of Vineland Consent Decree for Businesses and Executives
The Department of Justice has lodged a proposed Consent Decree in a tax foreclosure case involving the City of Vineland. This decree allows the city to seek ownership of a property tied to EPA liens, maintaining obligations for repayment of environmental response costs to the United States, influencing potential business transactions and developments related to the property.
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