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Documents: Complaints and Petitions for Review (2013-2017)

Information related to complaints and petitions for review received by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA):

  • 11/06/2017 TSCA, Sierra Club and A Community Voice-Louisiana, Complaint (pdf) (291.33 KB)
    Rule - Compliance Date Extension; Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products
  • 11/09/2017 CWA, US Constitution; Garry Lewis, Brenda Gayle Lewis, G. Lewis Louisiana, LLC, Robert Beard, Carolyn Milton and Town of Livingston, LA, Complaint (pdf) (8.17 MB)
    11/09/17 CWA, US Constitution; Garry Lewis, Brenda Gayle Lewis, G. Lewis Louisiana, LLC, Robert Beard, Carolyn Milton and Town of Livingston, LA (M.D. La)
  • 10/17/2017 CWA, Stephanie Rauseo and Apple Hill Neighbors Group, Complaint (pdf) (295.83 KB)
    10/17/2017 CWA, Stephane Rauseo and Apple Hill Neighbors Group (D. Ma)
  • 11/14/2017 SDWA, CERCLA; Oklahoma Keepers, E.L Dugan, M.W Dugan, H.L Dugan, C.I Dugan and F.C Dugan, Complaint (pdf) (3.48 MB)
    11/14/2017 Oklahoma Keepers, E.L Dugan, M.W Dugan, H.L Dugan, C.I Dugan and F.C Dugan (W.D Ok)
  • 11/06/2017 U.S. Constitution, Clean Air Council, Complaint (pdf) (724.42 KB)
    11/06/2017 U.S. Constitution, Clean Air Council (E.D. Pa)
  • 11/16/2017 CWA Idaho Conservation League, Complaint (pdf) (350.32 KB)
    11/16/2017 CWA Idaho Conservation League, Complaint (D. Id)
  • 10/30/2017 CWA, Charles Folsom, Complaint (pdf) (10.48 MB)
    10/30/2017 CWA, Charles Folsom (D. Neb)
  • 11/22/2017 SDWA, Town of Florence, AZ, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.45 MB, November 22, 2017)
  • 11/22/2017 SDWA, Town of Florence, AZ, Petition for review (pdf) (1.59 MB, November 22, 2017)
  • 12/04/2017 CAA, Warren Bob Neufeld, Petition for Review (pdf) (3.94 MB)
    Challenging the denial of petitions to change the RFS point of obligation under the Clean Air Act.
  • 10/13/2017 CAA, American Lung Association, American Public Health Association, American Thoracic Society, Appalachian Mountain Club, National Parks Conservation Association, NRDC, Sierra Club, West Harlem Environmental Action, Complaint (pdf) (266.9 KB)
    For failure to designate areas under the 2015 Ozone NAAQS.
  • 10/5/2017 CAA, States of New York, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont and Washington, the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and the District of Columbia, Complaint (pdf) (1.06 MB)
    For Failure to Issue Designations for 2015 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards.
  • 11/28/2017 CAA, National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (382.96 KB)
    11/28/2017 CAA, National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, Petition for Review
  • 12/11/2017 CAA, Crossett Concerned Citizens for Environmental Justice, Petition for Review (pdf) (4.63 MB)
  • 12/15/2017 CAA, Environmental Defense Fund, National Parks Conservation Association, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (907.35 KB)
  • 12/12/2017 CAA, American Fuel and Petrochemical Manufacturers, Petition for Review (pdf) (256.83 KB)
  • 12/15/2017 CAA, American Bakers Association. Petition for Review (pdf) (6.7 MB)
  • 12/12/2017 CAA, Valero Energy Corporation, Petition for Review (pdf) (8.2 MB)
  • 12/20/2017 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Environmental Health, and the Clean Air Council, Complaint (pdf) (188.02 KB)
    For EPA’s failure to make a failure of finding to submit for the 2012 PM2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas for SIPs
  • 12/19/2017 CWA, South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, Complaint (pdf) (267.95 KB)
  • 12/17/2017, Physicians for Social Responsibility, National Hispanic Medical Association, International Society for Children’s Health and the Environment, Joe Arvai, Edward Lawrence Avol, and Robyn Wilson, Complaint (pdf) (381.21 KB)
  • 12/26/2017 CAA, States of New York, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, State of Rhode Island, and State of Vermont, Petition for Review (pdf) (6.32 MB)
    To review EPA’s denial of CAA Petition filed on Dec. 9, 2013, requesting expansion of the Ozone Transport Region.
  • 9/15/2017 RCRA, Kris Yates, Complaint (pdf) (585.23 KB)
    NOI dated September 10, 2017 filed on behalf of Kris Yates regarding the building of a solar array on exclusive farm use (EFU) farmland.
  • 8/25/2017 CWA, Northwest Environmental Advocates, Complaint (pdf) (1.66 MB)
    NOI to sue EPA for failure to approve/disapprove w/in 30 days Washington State's 2015 Deschutes River TMDL.
  • 03/08/2017 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (552.98 KB)
    For failure to conduct triennial reports to congress on Environmental and Conservation Impacts of the Renewable Fuel Standard and failure to conduct Anti-Backsliding Analysis or determine if mitigation measures are necessary.
  • 08/23/2017 CAA, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Integrity Project, Adirondack Council, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club, and Physicians for Social Responsibility-Chesapeake, Inc., Complaint (pdf) (2.11 MB)
    NOI dated August 4, 2017, filed on behalf of public health, environmental, and conservation organizations for Failure to Perform a Nondiscretionary Duty to Act on Maryland's "Good Neighbor" Petition Under Section 126 of the Clean Air Act
  • 07/20/2017 CAA, State of Maryland, by and through the Maryland Department of the Environment, Complaint (pdf) (1.43 MB)
    For EPA’s failure to hold a public hearing and take final action on the State’s section 126 petition. The State’s petition asks EPA to find that 36 power plant units located in Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia are significantly contributing to nonattainment or interfering with maintenance of the 2008 ozone NAAQS in Maryland.
  • 06/21/2017 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Environmental Health and the Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (426.35 KB)
    For failure to perform mandatory duty to ensure adequate protection against conflicts of interest in air pollution permitting and enforcement.
  • 10/14/2016 CAA, The Humane Society of the United States, Association of Irritated Residents, Environmental Integrity Project, Friends of the Earth, and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (3.14 MB)
    For Unreasonable Delay in Responding to a Petition for the Regulation of CAFOs under the Clean Air Act
  • 05/18/2017 CAA, Small Retailers Coalition, Complaint (pdf) (210.29 KB)
    For EPA's noncompliance with sections 603 and 604 of the RFA
  • 12/07/2016 MPRSA, New York Department of State, New York Department of Environmental Conservation, Complaint (pdf) (780.1 KB)
    NOI regarding EPA designation of Eastern Long Island Sounds dredged material disposal site.
  • 11/23/2016 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston, Complaint (pdf) (853.18 KB)
    For Failure to Timely Grant or Deny a Petition to Object to Part 70 Operating Permit No. 01553 Issued to the ExxonMobil Corporation for the Baytown Olefins Plant in Harris County, Texas
  • 02/23/2017 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston, Complaint (pdf) (635.34 KB)
    For failure to timely grant or deny a petition to object to Part 70 Operating Permit issued to the ExxonMobil Corporation for the Baytown Refinery in Hanis County, Texas
  • 03/10/2017 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston, Complaint (pdf) (835.13 KB)
    For failure to grant or deny a petition to object to Part 70 operating permit for the Port Arthur Refinery in Jefferson County, Texas
  • 02/09/2017 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (889.85 KB)
    For Failure to Timely Grant or Deny a Petition to Object to Part 70 Operating Permit for the Welsh Power Plant in Titus County, Texas
  • 12/22/2016, CAA, Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project, Complaint (pdf) (706.88 KB)
    Failure to grant or deny a petition to object to a proposed Title V Operating Permit for Wheelabrator Frackville Energy, Inc. power plant in Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
  • 04/27/17 CWA, Connecticut Fund for the Environment;Natural Resources Defense Council; Riverkeeper; Waterkeepter Alliance;Raritan Baykeeper;Bronx Council for Environmental Quality;Newtown Creek Alliance;Jamaica Bay Ecowatchers;New York City Water,Complaint (pdf) (326.58 KB)
    60-day NOI regarding EPA's failure to approve or disapprove NYS's primary contact recreation criteria
  • 04/26/2017 CAA, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Chesapeake, Inc., Complaint (pdf) (4.57 MB)
    For failure to timely respond to our petition to object to the proposed Title V Operating Permit for the Fort Smallwood complex
  • 11/12/2014 CWA, OVEC et al., Amended Complaint (pdf) (2.36 MB)
    OVEC et al. NOI re WV TMDL submissionss
  • 11/12/2014 CWA, OVEC et al., Complaint (pdf) (20.59 MB)
    OVEC et al. NOI re WV TMDL submissionss
  • 05/08/2017 CWA, NRDC, Complaint (pdf) (326.96 KB)
    NoI received with complaint related to challenge to alleged refusal to designate for NPDES permitting discharges in the Batlimore watershed.
  • 11/02/2015 NRDC, Defenders of Wildlife, The Bay Institute, Complaint (pdf) (314.13 KB)
    Alleged failure to carry out non-discretionary federal review of California water quality standards in violation of Clean Water Act section 303(c)
  • 03/14/2017 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health, Complaint (pdf) (137.86 KB)
    For failure to make findings of failure to submit for 2008 ozone NAAQS nonattainment areas state implementation plans
  • 12/20/2016 CWA, EPA, Complaint (pdf) (1.43 MB)
    Mandatory duty challenge to Region 5 demanding that they act on Ohio's 2016 303(d) list
  • 08/22/2016 CWA, Columbia Riverkeeper, Idaho Rivers United, Snake River Waterkeeper, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, and the Institute for Fisheries Resources, Complaint (pdf) (126.83 KB)
    Alleging non-discretionary duty to establish TMDL for temperature on Lower Columbia River
  • 12/20/2016 CWA, EPA, Complaint (pdf) (813.18 KB)
    Mandatory duty challenge to Region 5 demanding that they act on Ohio's 2016 303(d) list
  • 03/20/2017 CAA, State of Connecticut, Complaint (pdf) (20.06 MB)
    Failure to grant or deny section 126 petition filed by Connecticut regarding Brunner Island Steam Electric Station in York County, Pennsylvania
  • 10/16/2017 CAA, Energy Developments, Inc.; Bio Energy (Tennessee II), LLC Petition for Review (pdf) (1.47 MB)
  • 2/04/2015 CAA, California Communities Against Toxics, Californians Against Waste Foundation, Coalition For A Safe Environment, Del Amo Action Committee, Desert Citizens Against Pollution, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Louisiana Environmental Action Complaint (pdf) (291.77 KB)
    Regarding overdue health risk and technology review (RTR) rules.
  • 1/29/2015 CAA, HEAL Utah, National Parks Conservation Association, and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (326.69 KB)
    For EPA's failure to promulgate Regional Haze FIP for Utah.
  • 1/26/2015 CAA, WildEarth Guardians, Complaint (pdf) (143.02 KB)
    For EPA's failure to promulgate to FIP within two years of disapproving the State of Utah's Regional Haze SIP.
  • 10/02/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (667.68 KB)
    Failure to grant or deny petition to object to the proposed Title V permit for the Schiller Station power plant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
  • 08/27/2014 CAA, Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardians, Complaint (pdf) (426.08 KB)
    For failure to make findings of failure to submit 'Good Neighbor' provisions for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
  • 08/04/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles, WildEarth Guardians, and Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (361.49 KB)
    For its failure to perform non-discretionary duties related to the implementation of the 1997 NAAQS for PM2.5 in the San Joaquin Valley, CA and Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin, CA nonattainment areas.
  • 07/28/2014 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston, Complaint (pdf) (2.2 MB)
    Failure to timely grant or deny a petition to object to the part 70 operating permit issued to Shell Oil Company for operation of the Deer Park Refinery in Harris County, Texas.
  • 05/20/2014 CAA, Finger Lakes Zero Waste Coalition, Inc., Complaint (pdf) (476.9 KB)
    Alleging EPA's failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Seneca Energy II, Ontario County Landfill Gas to Energy Facility, NY.
  • 04/28/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (460.42 KB)
    Failing to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan (FIP) within two years of partially disapproving Arkansas' revised Regional Haze (RH) and Interstate Transport State Implementation Plans (SIPs).
  • 01/27/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (2.15 MB)
    Failure to take action on petition for redesignation of areas that violate 2008 NAAQS for Ozone.
  • 3/20/2015 CAA, Sierra Club and Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles, Complaint (pdf) (111.51 KB)
    For its failure to perform non-discretionary duties related to the implementation of the 2006 NAAQS for PM2.5 in the Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin, CA nonattainment area.
  • 3/10/2015 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (2.88 MB)
    For failure to respond to petition to object to the Title V permit issued to Southwestern Electric Power Company for operation of the H.W. Pirkey Power Plant in Harrison County, Texas.
  • 10/28/2013 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (402.85 KB)
    For failure to make a finding of failure to submit for state implementation plan amendments to add particulate matter less than 2.5 microns in diameter (PM2.5) increments.
  • 11/13/2015 CAA, Air Alliance Houston, Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, Community In -power and Development Association, Inc. and Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Complaint (pdf) (1.19 MB)
    For failure to Review and Revise Emission Factors for oil and gas flares
  • 02/14/2017 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health, Complaint (pdf) (640.65 KB)
    For failure to make “bump up” determinations for Philadelphia and Washington D.C. marginal nonattainment areas for the 2008 ozone NAAQS
  • 09/30/2015 CAA, Sierra Club, First Amended Complaint (pdf) (87.56 KB)
    Failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals for New Jersey.
  • 06/23/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, and Clean Air Council, Complaint (pdf) (109.32 KB)
    Alleging EPA’s failure to perform mandatory duties under the 2008 Lead NAAQS.
  • 12/15/2014 CAA, American Petroleum Institute, Complaint (pdf) (4.03 MB)
    For failure to issue the 2014 & 2015 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations and failure to meet the 90-day deadline with respect to API's waiver petition.
  • 12/01/2014 CAA, American Petroleum Institute, Complaint (pdf) (4.03 MB)
    For failure to issue the 2015 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
  • 11/21/2014 CAA, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, Complaint (pdf) (4.03 MB)
    For failure to issue the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
  • 08/11/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and Friends of the Earth, Complaint (pdf) (324.6 KB)
    Failure to determine whether global warming pollutants from aircraft emissions cause or contribute to air pollution that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger the public health or welfare, and if so, to regulate those emissions
  • 2/05/2015 CAA, Wildearth Guardians, Complaint (pdf) (702.03 KB)
    For EPA's failure to promulgate to FIP within two years of disapproving the State of Utah's Regional Haze SIP.
  • 11/04/2015 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (87.56 KB)
    Failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals for New Jersey
  • 11/04/2015 CAA, Sierra Club, First Amended Complaint (pdf) (87.56 KB)
    Failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals for New Jersey
  • 01/21/2016 CAA, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Amended Complaint (pdf) (54.59 KB)
    Failure to timely respond to 2013 petition regarding the Ozone Transport.
  • 01/21/2016 CAA, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Complaint (pdf) (687.3 KB)
    Failure to timely respond to 2013 petition regarding the Ozone Transport.
  • 06/01/2015 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (180.23 KB)
    For failure to take action on 2008 Ozone iSIPs and related FIP commitments
  • 08/03/2015 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, and Neighbors for Clean Air, Complaint (pdf) (101.91 KB)
    For failure to take final action and failure to make findings of failure to submit for 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas state implementation plans.
  • 12/01/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (109.32 KB)
    For failure to take final action on nonattainment SIP submittals for various states addressing the 2008 lead NAAQS.
  • 12/04/2015 CAA, Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project, Complaint (pdf) (2.48 MB)
    Failure to grant or deny a petition regarding the Title V Operating Permit for the Tennessee Valley Authority's Bull Run Fossil Plant located in Clinton, Tennessee.
  • 12/10/2015 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (2.12 MB)
    Failure to submit non-attainment area SIP submittals for the NAAQS for S02 for 14 states.
  • 8/17/2015 CAA, Sierra Club and Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Second Amended Complaint (pdf) (17.84 MB)
    For failure to grant or deny a petition requesting that the Administrator object to the Title V permit issued to Yuhuang Chemical Inc. for the construction and operation of a new methanol manufacturing plant in St. James, Louisiana.
  • 8/17/2015 CAA, Sierra Club and Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Complaint (pdf) (232.36 KB)
    For failure to grant or deny a petition requesting that the Administrator object to the Title V permit issued to Yuhuang Chemical Inc. for the construction and operation of a new methanol manufacturing plant in St. James, Louisiana.
  • 8/17/2015 CAA, Sierra Club and Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Amended Complaint (pdf) (268.9 KB)
    For failure to grant or deny a petition requesting that the Administrator object to the Title V permit issued to Yuhuang Chemical Inc. for the construction and operation of a new methanol manufacturing plant in St. James, Louisiana.
  • 8/17/2015 CAA, Midwest Environmental Defense Center, Complaint (pdf) (157.64 KB)
    For failure to grant or deny a petition regarding the Title V Operating Permit issued by the Wisconsin Department or Natural Resources to Appleton Coated. LLC. for a plant in Wisconsin.
  • 3/24/2015 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (1.9 MB)
    For failure to promulgate a FIP within two years of our partial disapproval on Louisiana's Regional Haze SIP.
  • 3/20/2015 CAA, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation, Complaint (pdf) (5.9 MB)
    For failure to grant or deny petitions to object to the proposed Title V permits for WPSC's De Pere Energy, LLC plant and for WPSC's Weston plant, Permit.
  • 12/24/2015 CAA, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Clean Wisconsin and Midwest Environmental Defense Center, Complaint (pdf) (248.56 KB)
    Failure to promulgate standards for several categories of major sources of hazardous air pollutants.
  • 12/21/2015 CWA, Sanitary Board of the City of Charleston, West Virginia, Complaint (pdf) (119.69 KB)
    Alleging mandatory duty for EPA to approve or disapprove state-submitted WQS.
  • 12/21/2015 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Association of lrritacect Residents and Climate Change Law Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (147.71 KB)
    Failure to grant or deny the petition requesting that EPA object to the Permit proposed by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District for the Alon USA - Bakersfield, California Refinery Crude Oil Flexibility Project, Facility.
  • 01/09/2014 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (566.35 KB)
    Failure to promulgate a FIP for Infrastructure SIP elements for Alaska, Iowa, Puerto Rico and Washington for the 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS.
  • 01/13/2017 CAA, Bill Green, Complaint (pdf) (3.59 MB)
    For failure to respond to petition requesting that the Administrator object to the Title V operating permit for the U.S. Department of Energy Hanford Site
  • 01/18/2016 CAA, Appleton Coated, LLC and Wisconsin Paper Council, Inc. Complaint (pdf) (106.68 KB)
    Failure to grant or deny a petition regarding the Title V Operating Permit to Appleton Coated. LLC. for a plant in Wisconsin.
  • 01/21/2016 CAA, Seneca County, Inc., Complaint (pdf) (439.65 KB)
    For failure to timely grant or deny Petition to Object to the proposed Title V Operating Permit issued to Seneca Energy, II LLC for operation of the Landfill Gas to Energy Facility located in Seneca Falls, Seneca County, New York.
  • 02/04/2014 CAA, Citizens for Clean Air, Complaint (pdf) (790.13 KB)
    Failure to issue a “finding of failure to submit” addressing the State of Alaska’s failure to develop and submit a nonattainment SIP to combat persistent violations of the 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS in the Fairbanks North Star Borough, Alaska.
  • 02/10/2016 CAA, Iowa Citizens for Community Improvement, Clean Wisconsin, Center for Food Safety, The Humane Society of the United States, the Association of Irritated Residents, Food & Water Watch, and the Environmental Integrity Project, Complaint (pdf) (7.62 MB)
    For unreasonable delay in responding to our April 5, 2011 petition for the Regulation of Ammonia as a Criteria Pollutant Under Clean Air Act Sections 108 and 109.
  • 02/18/2016 CAA, Bill Green, Complaint (pdf) (1.47 MB)
    Failure to issue a part 71 permit in response to EPA’s order granting in part a petition to object to the Hanford permit and the state’s failure to respond to that order
  • 02/26/2013 CWA, ESA, Our Children's Earth Foundation and Ecological Rights Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (8.13 MB)
    Alleged duties under CWA and ESA regarding California Toxics Rule.
  • 02/28/2013 CWA, ESA, Northwest Environmental Advocates, Complaint (pdf) (731.12 KB)
    Alleged mandatory duties under CWA and ESA regarding Washington WQS.
  • 03/13/2013 CAA, American Lung Association, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (231.96 KB)
    For failure to perform non-discretionary duties related to the review of the national ambient air quality standards for ozone.
  • 03/24/2016 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (1.9 MB)
    Amended NOI for the failure to promulgate a FIP within two years of partially disapproving Louisiana's June 13, 2008 Regional Haze SIP
  • 04/06/2016 CAA, Citizens for Clean Air and the Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (2.41 MB)
    Failure to issue a full or partial approval or a disapproval of the State of Alaska’s state implementation plan addressing the Fairbanks North Star Borough 24-hour fine particulate matter non-attainment area.
  • 04/06/2016 CAA, Citizens for Clean Air and the Sierra Club, Complaint 2 (pdf) (3.21 MB)
    Failure to issue a full or partial approval or a disapproval of the State of Alaska’s state implementation plan addressing the Fairbanks North Star Borough 24-hour fine particulate matter non-attainment area.
  • 04/08/2016 CAA, Community In-Power and Development Association Inc., Hoosier Environmental Council, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment, Complaint (pdf) (190.42 KB)
    For failure to issue standards or final residual risk determinations for various major sources of hazardous air pollutants categories. Also for failure to review and revise as necessary emission standards promulgated every 8 years.
  • 04/18/2016 CAA, States of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, Complaint (pdf) (4.31 MB)
    Failure to Act on their Petitions Under Clean Air Act Section 176A
  • 04/23/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (432.73 KB)
    Failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals and failure to make finding of failure to submit.
  • 04/27/2016 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health, Complaint (pdf) (223.55 KB)
    For failure to timely review, revise and promulgate the Air Quality Criteria for Sulfur Oxides and the NAAQS for Sulfur Dioxide and Nitrogen Oxides as may be appropriate
  • 11/04/2016 CAA, Valero Energy Corporation, Complaint (pdf) (12.94 MB)
    For failure to perform non-discretionary duties which relate to defining the obligated party for the RFS program
  • 11/06/2015 CWA, Missouri Colation for the Environment Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (345.08 KB)
    Notice of Intent to Sue filed by Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation alleging nondiscretionary duty to promulgate WQS for Missouri.
  • 11/03/2016 CAA, Climate Change Law Foundation; Association of Irritated Residents; Center for Biological Diversity; Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (282.1 KB)
    Failed to grant or deny a petition to object to a proposed Authority to Construct/Certificate of Conformity ("Permit") for a Steam Plant in the McKittrick Oil Field in California
  • 10/22/2013 CAA, Wildearth Guardians, Complaint (pdf) (320.43 KB)
    Alleging EPA's failure to issue or deny a title V permit for Deseret Bonanza Power Plant in Utah.
  • 10/21/2013 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (237.88 KB)
    For failure to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan for Montana's SIP-approved PSD program to properly regulate nitrogen oxides as an ozone precursor.
  • 10/13/2016 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (124.29 KB)
    Concerning Clean Air Act deadlines related to Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incinerators and other categories of Solid Waste Incinerators
  • 10/08/2015 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity; Center for Environmental Health; Neighbors for Clean Air, Complaint (pdf) (101.91 KB)
    Notice of intent to sue for failure to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan for Montana
  • 10/08/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (432.73 KB)
    For failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals for Kansas and North Dakota.
  • 09/21/2015 CAA, Nucor Steel Louisiana LLC and Consolidated Environmental Management, Inc., a fully-owned subsidiary of Nucor Corporation, Complaint (pdf) (11.68 MB)
    Failure to take action after objection to Nucor's Title V permit
  • 09/04/2013 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (112.09 KB)
    For failure to make a finding of failure to submit and take final action for 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas.
  • 08/31/2015 CWA, ESA, Wild Fish Conservancy, Complaint (pdf) (1.73 MB)
    Notice of Intent to Sue U.S. EPA and National Marine Fisheries Service for Violations of the Endangered Species Act Associated with Consultation on Washington State's Revised Sediment Management Standards for Marine Finfish Facilities
  • 08/31/2015 CAA, Partnership for Policy lntegrity, Complaint (pdf) (125.3 KB)
    Failure of EPA Administrator to Take Timely Final Action Regarding Petition to Object to Permit for the Piedmont Green Power. LLC Facility in the City of Barnesville, Lamar County. Georgia
  • 08/27/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (432.73 KB)
    For failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals and failure to make finding of failure to submit.
  • 08/25/2016 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (1.51 MB)
    Failure to grant or deny a petition seeking an objection by EPA to the Title V Operating Permit proposed by the Western North Carolina Regional Air Quality Agency for Duke Energy Progress, Inc.’s Asheville Steam Electric Plant in Buncombe County, North Carolina
  • 10/24/2013 CAA, California Communities Against Toxics and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (647.02 KB)
    Failure to conduct residual risk and technology reviews for POTW source categories pursuant to CAA section 112(d)(6) and (f)(2).
  • 08/22/2016 CWA, Columbia Riverkeeper, Idaho Rivers United, Snake River Waterkeeper, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, and the Institute for Fisheries Resources, Complaint.pdf (pdf) (232.44 KB)
    Alleging non-discretionary duty to establish TMDL for temperature on Lower Columbia River
  • 08/22/2016 CWA, Columbia Riverkeeper, Idaho Rivers United, Snake River Waterkeeper, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, and the Institute for Fisheries Resources, Amended_Complaint.pdf (pdf) (218.16 KB)
    Alleging non-discretionary duty to establish TMDL for temperature on Lower Columbia River
  • 08/12/2013 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Benjamin Feldman, Complaint (pdf) (3.1 MB)
    Failure to Grant or Deny Plaintiffs' Petition to Object to the Proposed Title V Operating Permit for Mettiki Coal preparation/processing plant.
  • 08/08/2013 CAA, The State of North Carolina, Complaint (pdf) (518.88 KB)
    Failure to Designate Areas for the 2010 S02 National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
  • 08/03/2016 CAA, Citizens for Clean Air and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (2.41 MB)
    For failure to determine whether the Fairbanks North Star Borough non-attainment area has attained the 24-hour PM2.5 NAAQS and to publish notice of that finding in the Federal Register, in addition to potentially reclassification of the area as a “serious” non-attainment area “no later than 6 months following the attainment date.
  • 08/02/2013 CAA, The Attorneys General of New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency, Complaint (pdf) (273.2 KB)
    Failure to timely review and revise the NSPS for Residential Wood Heaters under the CAA.
  • 07/23/2013 CWA, Columbia Riverkeeper, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Spokane Riverkeeper, and North Sound Baykeeper, Complaint (pdf) (621.97 KB)
    Alleges that EPA is in violation of a non-discretionary duty, under 33 U.S.C. 1313(c)(4), to propose and promulgate certain water quality standards for the State of Washington.
  • 07/22/2013 CAA, Commissioners of the County of Berks, Pennsylvania, Complaint (pdf) (748.64 KB)
    Failing to make a finding of failure to develop a SIP addressing the North Reading 2008 Lead NAAQS Nonattainment Area and the Lyons 2008 Lead NAAQS Nonattainment Area.
  • 07/18/2016 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health, Complaint (pdf) (132.23 KB)
    For failure to perform mandatory duties for PM2.5
  • 07/15/2014 CAA, Bill Green, Complaint (pdf) (2.61 MB)
    For failure to respond to two Title V petitions submitted by Bill Green in 2013 and 2014 on renewals of and revisions to the Hanford Title V permit.
  • 07/09/2013 CAA, The States of North Dakota, Nevada, South Dakota, and Texas, Complaint (pdf) (7.93 MB)
    Failure to designate areas for SO2 NAAQS.
  • 07/08/2015 CAA, State of North Carolina, Complaint (pdf) (173.97 KB)
    Failure to Approve or Disapprove North Carolina's PM 2.5 State Implementation Submittal, dated September 5, 2013, pursuant to Clean Air Act Section 110(k)
  • 07/07/2016 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (1.08 MB)
    Failure to perform a non-discretionary duty to grant or deny petition seeking an objection to Proposed Title V Permit for the operation of Scrubgrass Generating Company L.P. facility located near Kennerdell, Pennsylvania
  • 07/07/2014 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (571.47 KB)
    Failure to take final action on certain state implementation plan submittals and failure to “bump up” the Dallas-Fort Worth, TX 1997 8-hour ozone nonattainment area.
  • 07/06/2016 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (848.43 KB)
    Failure to perform a nondiscretionary duty to grant or deny petition seeking an objection to Proposed Title V Permit for the operation of PacifiCorp's Hunter Power Plant located in Castle Dale, Utah
  • 07/01/2016 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health, Complaint (pdf) (132.23 KB)
    For failure to perform multiple mandatory duties with regard to PM2.5
  • 06/17/2015 CWA, State of Maine, Complaint (pdf) (8.29 MB)
    60-day NOI from State of Maine to sue EPA over failure to approve WQS in Indian country within the State where EPA had previously approved such WQS in State waters.
  • 06/17/2015 CWA, State of Maine, Amended Complaint (pdf) (344.25 KB)
    60-day NOI from State of Maine to sue EPA over failure to approve WQS in Indian country within the State where EPA had previously approved such WQS in State waters.
  • 06/11/2015 CAA, Preserve Pepe'keo Health and Environment, Complaint (pdf) (439.54 KB)
    Failure to take timely action regarding petition to object to the Hu Honua Bioenergy, LLC ("Hu Honua") Title V operating permit.
  • 06/11/2014 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (633.74 KB)
    Alleging EPA’s failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Luminant’s Big Brown Plant, Texas.
  • 06/09/2016 CAA, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Chesapeake, Inc., Complaint (pdf) (18.94 MB)
    For failure to timely grant or deny a petition to object to the Title V operating permit for the Morgantown Generating Station
  • 06/06/2016 CAA, Sierra Club, Second Amended Complaint (pdf) (4.66 MB)
    For failure to promulgate Federal Implementation Plan for Kentucky Good Neighbor provision
  • 06/01/2015 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (180.23 KB)
    for failure to take action on 2008 Ozone iSIPs and related FIP commitments
  • 05/29/2013 CAA, Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (2.14 MB)
    Failure to grant or deny petitions to object to the proposed Title V permits for seven Pennsylvania power plants.
  • 05/28/2015 CAA, State of Nevada Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources Complaint.pdf (pdf) (1.3 MB)
    Failure to Act on Nevada’s 2008 Ozone NAAQS State Implementation Plan Submission as Required by 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7410(k)(2)
  • 05/17/2016 CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Environmental Health, and the Clean Air Council, Complaint (pdf) (248.81 KB)
    Deadline suit for failure to submit and failure to act on 2008 ozone attainment SIPs
  • 05/14/2014 CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (633.74 KB)
    Alleging EPA's failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Luminant's Monticello Plant, Texas.
  • 05/13/2013 CWA, Northwest Environmental Advocates, Idaho Conservation League, Complaint (pdf) (294.84 KB)
    Alleges duties under the CWA and ESA related to Idaho Water Quality Standards.
  • 2/14/2018 CWA, Conservation Law Foundation, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.5 MB)
    Failure to perform non-discretion duty to require NPDES permits for certain storm water discharges to certain waters in RI.
  • 2/14/2018 CWA, ESA, Center for Biological Diversity, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.5 MB)
    Notice of intent to sue the EPA for violations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) in connection with EPA’s issuance of the NPDES general permit for offshore oil and gas extraction in the western Gulf of Mexico (now renamed Gulf of America).

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