Documents: Complaints and Petitions for Review (2020)

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

• 01/02/2020, CAA, Suncor Energy (U.S.A.) Inc. (pdf) (2.85 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s October 25, 2019, final action denying Suncor’s petitions for a one-year small-refinery exemption from the requirements of the Renewable Fuel Standard program for the 2018 compliance year for Suncor’s West Refinery and Suncor’s East Refinery in Commerce City, Colorado.
• 01/08/2020, CAA, United Steel, Petition for Review (pdf) (935.1 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled “Modifications to Fuel Regulations To Provide Flexibility for E15.
• 01/08/2020, CAA, URBAN AIR INITIATIVE, INC., Petition for Review (pdf) (796.21 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled “Modifications to Fuel Regulations To Provide Flexibility for E15.
• 01/10/2020, CAA, Sandra L. Bahr, Petition for Review (pdf) (174.08 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “Determination of Attainment by the Attainment Date for the 2008 Ozone National Ambient Air Quality Standards
• 01/17/2020, CAA, State of New York, Complaint (pdf) (591.87 KB)
  Allege that EPA failed to promulgate by August 12, 2017 the FIPs for the 2008 NAAQS for ozone that address the requirements of the “Good Neighbor Provision” with respect to sources of air pollution located within Illinois, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia
• 01/21/2020, CAA, Our Children's Earth Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (171.56 KB)
  For failure to take final action in a timely manner on numerous SIP revisions submitted by the State of California, 17 specific submissions, most of which are SIPs for the ozone or particulate matter standards.
• 01/23/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (151.95 KB)
  Failure to make findings of failure to submit and failure to take final action to determine which ozone nonattainment areas or ozone transport region ("OTR") areas have failed to submit Oil and Natural Gas Control Technology Guidelines ("CTG") Reasonably Available Control Technology ("RACT'') provisions
• 01/30/2020, CWA 311, ALERT of Earth Island Institute, Complaint (pdf) (315.07 KB)
• 01/30/2020, CAA, State of New York, Petition for Review (pdf) (584.41 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final agency action entitled “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act,” at 84 Fed. Reg. 69,834 (Dec. 19, 2019
• 02/07/2020, SDWA, Washington State Dairy Federation, Petition for Review (pdf) (2.11 MB)
  Petition for review of the Administrative Order on Consent, Docket No. SDWA-10-2013-0080, entered on March 13, 2013, a proceeding under Section 1431 of the SafeDrinking Water Act, 42 U.S.C. § 300i(a)
• 02/10/2020, CAA, Downwinders at Risk, Complaint (pdf) (136.23 KB)
  For failure to issue within the two-year deadline a federal implementation plan that eliminates eastern upwind states' significant contributions to downwind states' nonattainment and interference with maintenance of the 2008 ozone standard
• 02/10/2020, RCRA, NOI for Failure to Perform Nondiscretionary Duties under RCRA, Complaint (pdf) (983.55 KB)
  CCR Proposed Rule Part A
• 02/20/2020, CAA, State of New Jersey, Complaint (pdf) (153.54 KB)
  For Failure to Perform Nondiscretionary Duty to Promulgate Federal Implementation Plans for the Good Neighbor Provision Requirements for the 2008 Ozone NAAQS
• 02/19/2020, CAA, State of Delaware, Petition for Review (pdf) (622.32 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action entitled “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act,” published at 84 Fed. Reg. 69,834 (Dec. 19, 2019).
• 02/21/2020, CAA, Renewable Fuels Association, Petition for Review (pdf) (8.91 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s denial of the Coalition’s administrative petition to either (a) reconsider the Annual Standard Equations or (b) revise or amend the Annual Standard Equations, as evidenced in Final Rule for the “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass- Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” 85 Fed. Reg. 7,016 (Feb. 6, 2020)
• 02/24/2020, CAA, Harris County, Texas, Petition for Review (pdf) (2.22 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action entitled “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act,” at 84 Fed. Reg. 69,834 (Dec. 19, 2019)
• 02/25/2020, CAA, OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH FOUNDATION, Complaint (pdf) (235.4 KB)
  Failure to perform nondiscretionary duty to respond to over 90 California SIP submissions from the 1990’s to 2018
• 03/02/2020, CAA, RFS POWER COALITION, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.46 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final rule titled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes” at 85 Fed. Reg. 7,016 (February 6, 2020).
• 03/16/2020, CAA, AMERICAN FUEL & PETROCHEMICAL MANUFACTURERS, Petition for Review (pdf) (9.49 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled, “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” at 85 Fed. Reg. 7016 (February 6, 2020)
• 03/20/2020, TSCA, Environmental Defense Fund, Complaint (pdf) (412.94 KB)
  Principally, alleges a failure to comply with TSCA statutory and regulatory information disclosure provisions associated with the new chemicals program under Section 5.
• 03/23/2020, FIFRA, Natural Resouces Defense Council, Petition for Review (pdf) (2.39 MB)
  Challenge to registration review interim decision for glyphosate
• 03/23/2020, Endangered Species Act, Rural Coalition, Petition for Review (pdf) (2.82 MB)
  Challenge to Registration Review Interim Decision for Glyphosate
• 03/23/2020, CAA, VALERO ENERGY CORPORATION, Petition for Review (pdf) (666.15 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final rule entitled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” at 85 Fed. Reg. 7,016 (Feb. 06, 2020)
• 04/01/2020, APA, UPPER MISSOURI WATERKEEPER, Complaint (pdf) (699.48 KB)
  EPA's approval of Montana's poison pill provisions
• 04/01/2020, CAA, WYNNEWOOD REFINING COMPANY, Petition for Review (pdf) (38.09 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action: EPA decision on 2018 small refinery RFS exemption petition - Wynnewood Refining
• 04/07/2020, CAA, AMERICAN PETROLEUM INSTITUTE, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.45 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final rule entitled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” 85 Fed. Reg. 7016 (Feb. 6, 2020)
• 04/07/2020, CAA, GROWTH ENERGY, Petition for Review (pdf) (656.17 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes, 85 Fed. Reg. 7016 (Feb. 6, 2020).
• 04/07/2020, CAA, Iogen Corporation, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.46 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action in promulgating the final rule entitled, “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes” at 85 Fed. Reg. 7016 (February 6, 2020)
• 04/08/2020, CAA, WASTE MANAGEMENT, INC., Petition for Review (pdf) (665.68 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final rule entitled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes” at 85 Fed. Reg. 7,016 (Feb. 6, 2020).
• 04/08/2020, CAA, PRODUCERS OF RENEWABLES UNITED FOR INTEGRITY TRUTH AND TRANSPARENCY, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.83 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA'S final agency action entitled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” at 85 Fed. Reg. 7016 (Feb. 6, 2020)
• 04/09/2020, CAA, RENEWABLE FUELS ASSOCIATION, Petition for Review (pdf) (666.92 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final rule entitled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” 85 Fed. Reg. (Feb. 6, 2020)
• 04/09/2020, CAA, Air Alliance Houston, Petition for Review (pdf) (363.92 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Petroleum Refinery Sector” at 85 Fed. Reg. 6064 (Feb. 4, 2020)
• 04/09/2020, CAA, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (272.4 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled Withdrawal of Finding of Substantial Inadequacy of Implementation Plan and of Call for Texas State Implementation Plan Revision—Affirmative Defense Provisions, at 85 Fed. Reg. 7,232 on February 7, 2020
• 04/09/2020, CAA, Alon Refining Krotz Springs, Inc., Petition for Review (pdf) (1.47 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final rule entitled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” 85 Fed. Reg. 7016 (Feb. 6, 2020)
• 04/09/2020, CAA, NATIONAL BIODIESEL BOARD, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.54 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final rule entitled “Renewable Fuel Standard Program: Standards for 2020 and Biomass-Based Diesel Volume for 2021 and Other Changes,” 85 Fed. Reg. 7016 (Feb. 6, 2020)
• 04/15/2020, CAA, SIERRA CLUB, Complaint (pdf) (99.54 KB)
  Failure to meet deadline to taking final action on the 2015 West Pinal Moderate PM10 Nonattainment Area SIP Revision and failure to meet the deadline for determining whether West Pinal County has attained the NAAQS for PM10
• 04/15/2020, CAA, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (337.47 KB)
  Petition for review of two of EPA's final actions titled “Air Plan Approval
• 04/17/2020, CAA, Sierra Club, Protective Petition for Review (pdf) (494.45 KB)
  Protective petition for review of two of EPA's final actions titled “Air Plan Approval
• 04/28/2020, CAA, SIERRA CLUB, Complaint (pdf) (171.51 KB)
  For failure to issue a finding of failure to submit a nonattainment state implementation plan under the 2015 national ambient air quality standard for sulfur dioxide
• 04/27/2020, CWA/WOTUS, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (380.77 KB)
  Challenge to the Navigable Waters Protection Rule
• 04/27/2020, CWA/WOTUS, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (372.84 KB)
  Challenge to the Navigable Waters Protection Rule
• 04/28/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.64 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final entitled “Clean Air Plans
• 04/29/2020, CWA/WOTUS, Conservation Law Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (599.75 KB)
  Navigable Waters Protection Rule
• 05/07/2020, CAA, Competitive Enterprise Institute, Petition for Review (pdf) (300.29 KB)
  Petition this Court to review the rule titled “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks” which was published in the Federal Register at 85 Fed. Reg. 24174-25278 (April 30, 2020)
• 05/11/2020, CAA, SIERRA CLUB, Petition for Review (pdf) (366.09 KB)
  Petition for review of rule titled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Stationary Combustion Turbines Residual Risk and Technology Review,” Fed. Reg. 13,524 (March 9, 2020)
• 05/11/2020, CAA, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, INC., Petition for Review (pdf) (282.37 KB)
  petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program’s Extension to Substitutes” at 85 Fed. Reg. 14,150 on March 11, 2020
• 05/11/2020, CAA, State of New York, Petition for Review (pdf) (430.51 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “Protection of Stratospheric Ozone: Revisions to the Refrigerant Management Program’s Extension to Substitutes” at 85 Fed. Reg. 14,150 on March 11, 2020)
• 05/15/2020, CAA, WESTMORELAND MINING HOLDINGS LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (744.54 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Reconsideration of Supplemental Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review” 85 Fed. Reg. 31,286 (May 22, 2020)
• 05/28/2020, CAA, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., Petition for Review (pdf) (168.3 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action title "The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks", 85 Fed. Reg. 24,174 (Apr. 30, 2020).
• 05/29/2020, CAA, State of California, Petition for Review (pdf) (631.63 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action title "The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks", 85 Fed. Reg. 24,174 (Apr. 30, 2020)
• 06/01/2020, CAA, National Coalition for Advanced Transportation, Petition for Review (pdf) (141.84 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled, “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks” at 85 Fed. Reg. 24,174 on April 30, 2020 and EPA's action entitled “Mid-Term Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Model Year 2022–2025 Light-Duty Vehicles,” at 83 Fed. Reg. 16,077 on April 13, 2018
• 06/02/2020, CAA, South Coast Air Quality Management District, Petition for Review (pdf) (107.99 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action title "The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks", 85 Fed. Reg. 24,174 (Apr. 30, 2020)
• 06/02/2020, CAA, ADVANCED ENERGY, Petition for Review (pdf) (122.06 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled, “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks” at 85 Fed. Reg. 24,174 on April 30, 2020 and EPA's action entitled “Mid-Term Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Model Year 2022–2025 Light-Duty Vehicles,” at 83 Fed. Reg. 16,077 on April 13, 2018)
• 06/02/2020, CAA, Calpine Corporation, Petition for Review (pdf) (133.59 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled, “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021–2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks” at 85 Fed. Reg. 24,174 on April 30, 2020 and EPA's action entitled “Mid-Term Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Model Year 2022–2025 Light-Duty Vehicles,” at 83 Fed. Reg. 16,077 on April 13, 2018)
• 06/02/2020, CAA, National Coalition for Advanced Transportation, Petition for Review (pdf) (590.01 KB)
  Protective petitions for review of EPA’s action titled “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule Part One: One National Program” at 84 Fed. Reg. 51,310 (Sept. 27, 2019)
• 06/03/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Petition for Review (pdf) (526.32 KB)
  Protective petitions for review of EPA’s action titled “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule Part One: One National Program” at 84 Fed. Reg. 51,310 (Sept. 27, 2019)
• 06/10/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Petition for Review (pdf) (325.47 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled “Approval and Promulgation of State Implementation Plan Revisions
• 06/19/2020, FIFRA, JCM FARMING, INC., Complaint (pdf) (344.54 KB)
  Complaint for Declarative and Injunctive Relief
• 06/22/2020, CWA/WOTUS, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Complaint (pdf) (473.09 KB)
  Challenge to (1) Navigable Waters Protection Rule and (2) final rule repealing the 2015 regulatory definition of "waters of the United States" and recodifying the prior regulations.
• 06/22/2020, CWA/WOTUS, Fond Du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Menominee Tribe of WI, Pascua Yaqui Tribe, Complaint (pdf) (333.93 KB)
  Challenge to (1) Navigable Waters Protection Rule and (2) final rule repealing the 2015 regulatory definition of "waters of the United States" and recodifying the prior regulations.
• 06/22/2020, CAA, American Academy of Pediatrics, Petition for Review (pdf) (493.44 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units ─ Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review, at 85 Fed. Reg. 31,286 (May 22, 2020)
• 06/19/2020, CAA, Citizens for Pennsylvania's Future, Environmental Integrity Review Project, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (275.96 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action titled "National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units Firing Eastern Bituminous Coal Refuse for Emissions of Acid Gas Hazardous Air Pollutants" at 85 Fed. Reg. 20,838 (Apr. 15, 2020)
• 06/30/2020, CAA, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (277.11 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled SIP Call withdrawal and Air Plan Approval
• 07/02/2020, CAA, Clean Fuels Development Coalition, Petition for Review (pdf) (220.61 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “The Safer Affordable Fuel-Efficient (SAFE) Vehicles Rule for Model Years 2021-2026 Passenger Cars and Light Trucks” at 85 Fed. Reg. 24,174 (April 30, 2020) and final action titled “Mid-Term Evaluation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Standards for Model Year 2022-2025 Light-Duty Vehicles” at 83 Fed. Reg. 16,077 (April 13, 2018
• 07/22/20, CAA, Puget Sound Energy, Inc., Petition for Review (pdf) (841.04 KB, 07/22/20)
  Petition for Review of EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units—Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review at 85 Fed. Reg. 31,286 (May 22, 2020)
• 07/22/20, CAA, ADVANCED EMISSIONS SOLUTIONS, INC., ADA Carbon Solutions, LLC, and ADA-ES, Inc. Petition for Review (pdf) (345.47 KB, 07/22/20)
  Petition for Review of EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units—Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review at 85 Fed. Reg. 31,286 (May 22, 2020)
• 07/23/2020, CAA, Air Alliance Houston, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Clean Air Council, Downwinders at Risk, Environment Defense Fund, Environmental Integrity Project, Montana Environment Information Center, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (460.79 KB)
  Petition for Review of EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units—Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review at 85 Fed. Reg. 31,286 (May 22, 2020)
• 07/23/2020, CAA, Calpine Corporation, Petition for Review (pdf) (403.07 KB)
  Petition for Review of EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units—Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review at 85 Fed. Reg. 31,286 (May 22, 2020)
• 07/21/2020, CAA, UNITED REFINING COMPANY, Complaint (pdf) (52.45 KB)
  Failure to act on petition for a small refinery hardship exemption to its Renewable Fuel Standards for its Warren, Pennsylvania facility Associated NOI: CAA [07/21/2020] United Refining Company >> failure to act on petition for a sm (more..)
• 07/27/2020, CAA, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Petition for Review (pdf) (390.34 KB)
  Petition for Review of EPA’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Coal- and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units—Reconsideration of Supplemental Finding and Residual Risk and Technology Review at 85 Fed. Reg. 31,286 (May 22, 2020)
• 07/14/2020, CWA, American Rivers, Complaint (pdf) (334.84 KB)
  Challenge to EPA promulgation of CWA Section 401 Certification Rule, 85 Fed. Reg. 42,210 (July 13, 2020)
• 07/14/2020, CWA, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Complaint (pdf) (4.15 MB)
  EPA promulgation of CWA section 401 Certification Rule, 85 Fed. Reg. 42,210 (July 13, 2020).
• 07/21/2020, CWA, California, Complaint (pdf) (269.42 KB)
  Challenge to EPA promulgation of CWA Section 401 Certification Rule, 85 Fed. Reg. 42,210 (July 13, 2020)
• 07/28/2020, CAA, Packaging Corporation of America, Petiton for Review (pdf) (1.06 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action taken in a letter regarding 40 C.F.R. Part 63, Subpart S Applicability Determination Request, Packaging Corporation of America, Wallula Mill (May 26, 2020)
• 07/30/2020, CWA, Gunpowder Riverkeeper, Complaint (pdf) (153.16 KB)
  Alleging non-discretionary duty to disapprove Maryland TMDL to address PCBs in the Gunpowder and Bird Rivers and that approval was in violation of the APA
• 07/30/2020, CAA, PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Petition for Review.pdf (pdf) (1.91 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Source Category: Pulp and Paper Production
• 07/30/2020, CAA, PACKAGING CORPORATION OF AMERICA, Protective Petition for Review.pdf (pdf) (971.04 KB)
  Protective petition for review of EPA's final action taken in a letter regarding 40 C.F.R. Part 63, Subpart S Applicability Determination Request, Packaging Corporation of America, Wallula Mill (May 26, 2020)
• 08/04/2020, CAA, David Matusow, Petition for Review (pdf) (183.52 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “Clean Air Plans
• 08/07/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (139 KB)
  For failure to Issue findings of failure to submit nonattainment SIPs - Missouri, Guam, Indiana, Louisiana, and Puerto Rico with regard to sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution
• 08/18/2020, TSCA, State of New York, Petition for Review (pdf) (11.33 MB)
  Methylene Chloride Risk Evaluation
• 08/20/2020, CAA, California Communities Against Toxics, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.02 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action titled “Granting Petitions To Add 1-bromopropane (Also Known as 1-BP) to the List of Hazardous Air Pollutants”at 85 Fed. Reg. 36,851 (June 18, 2020)
• 08/25/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.6 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled “Approval of Air Quality Implementation Plans
• 08/26/2020, CWA, South Carolina Coastal Conservation League, Complaint (pdf) (4.01 MB)
  Plaintiffs challenge EPA’s final CWA Section 401 Certification Rule, 85 Fed. Reg. 42,210 (July 13, 2020), alleging that the rule violates the CWA and the Administrative Procedure Act.
• 08/28/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (227.18 KB)
  For failure to take final action on State Implementation Plans and promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan addressing ozone for a number of areas in California
• 09/01/2020, CWA, Suquamish Tribe, Complaint (pdf) (199.13 KB)
  Complaint challenges EPA’s final CWA Section 401 Certification Rule, 85 Fed. Reg. 42,210 (July 13, 2020).
• 09/01/2020, FIFRA, ZURU, LLC, Complaint (pdf) (71.61 KB)
  EPA Region 8's determination that Zuru's Bactive Heavy Duty Cleaning Wipes are pesticides, in response to which the US Customs and Border Patrol denied entry of 2 shipments of into the US
• 07/07/2020, RCRA, Labadie Environmental Organization, Dine Citizens Against Ruining our Environment, Hoosier Environmental Council, Waterkeeper Alliance, INC., and Sierra Club, Complaint (pdf) (1.16 MB)
  Holding a virtual public hearing rather than in-person hearing
• 09/09/2020, CAA, RISE St. James, Petition for Review (pdf) (555.3 KB)
  Petition for review of the risk and technology review for Ethylene Production
• 09/09/2020, CAA, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, Petition for Review (pdf) (662.27 KB)
  Petition for review challenging the risk and technology review for the Organic Liquid Distribution (Non-Gasoline) source category
• 09/10/2020, CWA, Maryland, District of Columbia, Virginia, Delaware, Complaint (pdf) (213.19 KB)
  Alleging failure to perform nondiscreationary duty under CWA 117(g), 33 USC sec. 1267(g), with respect to Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans ("WIPs") for New York and Pennsylvania. Also alleging EPA’s “approval” of the Phase III WIPs was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.
• 09/10/2020, CWA, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc., Complaint (pdf) (419.89 KB)
  Alleging failure to perform nondiscreationary duty under CWA 117(g), 33 USC sec. 1267(g), with respect to Chesapeake Bay Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans ("WIPs") for New York and Pennsylvania, as well as violation of Administrative Procedure Act, 5 USC sec. 706(2)(A) with regard to the same WIPs.
• 09/10/2020, CAA, National Parks Conservation Association, Petition for Review (pdf) (260.85 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action titled “Petition for Partial Reconsideration of Interstate Transport of Fine Particulate Matter: Revision of Federal Implementation Plan Requirements for Texas at 85 Fed. Reg. 40,286 (July 6, 2020)
• 09/03/2020, CAA, Concerned Citizens for Nuclear Safety, Petition for Review (pdf) (428.28 KB)
  Petition for review challenging the risk and technology review for Site Remediation
• 09/11/2020, CAA, Alyeska Pipeline Service Company, Petition for Review (pdf) (328.58 KB)
  Petition for review challenging the risk and technology review for the Organic Liquid Distribution (Non-Gasoline) source category
• 09/11/2020, CAA, California Communities Against Toxics, Coalition For a Safe Environment, and Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (23.04 MB)
  Petition for review challenging the risk and technology review for the Organic Liquid Distribution (Non-Gasoline) source category
• 09/11/2020, CAA, American Chemistry Council, and American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers, Petition for Review (pdf) (31.01 MB)
  Petition for review of the risk and technology review for Ethylene Production
• 09/15/2020, CAA, American Iron and Steel Institute, Petition for Review (pdf) (519.7 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Integrated Iron and Steel Manufacturing Facilities Residual Risk and Technology Review
• 09/15/2020, CAA, Clean Air Council, Petition for Review (pdf) (467.8 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action titled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Integrated Iron and Steel Manufacturing Facilities Residual Risk and Review” at 85 Fed. Reg. 42,074 (July 13, 2020)
• 09/16/2020, CAA, Environmental Defense Fund, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.22 MB)
  Petition for review challenging the Oil & Gas Policy Rule: “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review” 85 Fed. Reg. 57,018 (Sept. 14, 2020)
• 09/15/2020, CAA, State of California, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.4 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action titled “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review” at 85 Fed. Reg. 57,018 (Sept. 14, 2020)
• 09/17/2020, CAA, State of California, Petition for Review (pdf) (449.39 KB)
  Petitions for review challenging the Oil & Gas Technical Rule: “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review” 85 Fed. Reg. 57,398 (Sept. 15, 2020)
• 09/17/2020, CAA, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Petition for Review (pdf) (439.38 KB)
  Petitions for review challenging the Oil & Gas Technical Rule: “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review” 85 Fed. Reg. 57,398 (Sept. 15, 2020)
• 09/18/2020, CAA, Environmental Defense Fund, Petition for Review (pdf) (155.36 KB)
  Petition for review challenging the Oil & Gas Technical Rule: “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review” 85 Fed. Reg. 57,398 (Sept. 15, 2020)
• 09/18/2020, CAA, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, Petition for Review (pdf) (215.07 KB)
  Petition for review of the final rule entitled “Clean Air Plans"
• 09/18/2020, CAA, Environmental Law and Policy Center, Petition for Review (pdf) (437.15 KB)
  Petition for review challenging the Oil & Gas Policy Rule: “Oil and Natural Gas Sector: Emission Standards for New, Reconstructed, and Modified Sources Review” 85 Fed. Reg. 57,018 (Sept. 14, 2020) (Abi Vijayan, Howard Hoffman)
• 09/21/2020, FIFRA, Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc, Petition for Review (pdf) (6.03 MB)
  Denial of NRDC's petition to cancel pet uses of TCVP
• 09/24/2020, CAA, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (300.62 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action titled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Lime Manufacturing Plants Residual Risk and Technology Review” at 85 Fed. Reg. 44,960 (July 24, 2020)
• 09/10/2020, SDWA, NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL, Petition for Review (pdf) (93.1 KB)
  Challenge to EPA’s withdrawal of its 2011 determination to regulate perchlorate in drinking water and final determination not to regulate
• 10/02/2020, CAA, State of Minnesota, by and through the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency, Petition for Review (pdf) (315.61 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final actions entitled National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Taconite Iron Ore Processing Residual Risk and Technology Review at 85 Fed. Reg. 45,476 (July 28, 2020)
• 10/02/2020, CAA, Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Petition for Review (pdf) (299.24 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’S final actions entitled National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Taconite Iron Ore Processing Residual Risk and Technology Review at 85 Fed. Reg. 45,476 (July 28, 2020)
• 10/05/2020, CAA, OUR CHILDREN’S EARTH FOUNDATION, Complaint (pdf) (150.18 KB)
  Failure to Act on RACT SIPs for New York, including a 2008 ozone transport SIP supplement and 2015 ozone iSIP
• 10/06/2020, APA, Northwest Environmental Advocates, Complaint (pdf) (4.43 MB)
  EPA’s denial of its October 28, 2013, CWA section 303(c)(4)(B) petition “to update the State of Washington’s water quality standards for the protection of … aquatic life from toxic contaminants.” NWEA asserts that EPA’s May 31, 2017, denial was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act for a variety of reasons including, inter alia, that EPA allegedly ignored relevant scientific evidence and its denial was not based on sound scientific rationale.
• 08/18/2020, APA, CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY, Complaint (pdf) (755.45 KB)
  Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief
• 10/08/2020, APA, Conservation Law Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (140.82 KB)
  Memo by Jeffrey Clark, Subject "Supplemental Environmental Projects (“SEPs”) in Civil Settlements with Private Defendants", Dated March 12, 2020
• 10/13/2020, CAA, National Parks Conservation Association, Petition for Review (pdf) (350.21 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s rule entitled Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans
• 10/14/2020, CAA, Greater Birmingham Alliance to Stop Pollution, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, and Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (336.8 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action and titled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Plywood and Composite Wood Products Residual Risk and Technology Review” at 85 Fed. Reg. 49,434 (Aug. 13, 2020)
• 10/19/2020, TSCA, ALASKA COMMUNITY ACTION ON TOXICS, Petition for Review (pdf) (9.76 MB)
  TSCA RIsk Evaluation
• 10/16/2020, CAA, National Park Conservation Association, Petition for Review (pdf) (758.48 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s rule entitled “Promulgation of Air Quality Implementation Plans
• 10/16/2020, CAA, Huntsman Petrochemical LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.19 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing Residual Risk and Technology Review,” at 85 Fed. Reg. 49084 (Aug. 12, 2020)
• 10/16/2020, CAA, RISE ST. JAMES, Petition for Review (pdf) (594.42 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing Residual Risk and Review,” at 85 Fed. Reg. 49084 (Aug. 12, 2020)
• 10/16/2020, CAA, American Chemistry Council, Petition for Review (pdf) (642.69 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action entitled “National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Miscellaneous Organic Chemical Manufacturing Residual Risk and Technology Review,” at 85 Fed. Reg. 49084 (Aug. 12, 2020)
• 10/23/2020, ESA, Center for Biological Diversity; Center for Food Safety, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.18 MB)
  Failure to comply with ESA
• 10/27/2020, CAA, Community In-Power and Development Association, Petition for Review (pdf) (228.84 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act
• 10/29/2020, CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Complaint (pdf) (167.69 KB)
  For failure to Issue findings of failure to submit nonattainment SIPs - Missouri, Guam, Indiana, Louisiana, and Puerto Rico with regard to sulfur dioxide (SO2) pollution
• 10/30/2020, FIFRA, Rural Coalition, Petition for Review (pdf) (4.75 MB)
  Interim registration review decisions for the atrazine, propazine and simazine
• 11/03/2020, CAA, United Steel, Petition for Review (pdf) (150.92 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act
• 11/05/2020, FIFRA, American Soybean Association, Complaint (pdf) (167.09 KB)
  Challenge to EPA's issuance of dicamba registrations for use on DT cotton and soybean.
• 11/05/2020, CAA, State of New York, Petition for Review (pdf) (3.25 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA’s final action titled “Accidental Release Prevention Requirements: Risk Management Programs Under the Clean Air Act
• 11/16/2020, FIFRA, Plains Cotton Growers, Petition for Review (pdf) (136.48 KB)
  Challenge to 2020 dicamba registrations
• 11/17/2020, Clean Air Act, Kern Oil & Refining Co., Petition for Review (pdf) (606.76 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for compliance years 2014, 2015, and 2016
• 11/10/2020, FIFRA, AMERICAN SOYBEAN ASSOCIATION, Petition for Review of three dicamba products (pdf) (135.25 KB)
  Petition to review three dicamba registrations
• 11/18/2020, Clean Air Act, Kern Oil & Refining Co., Petition for Review (pdf) (595.13 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for compliance years 2014, 2015, and 2016
• 11/27/2020, CAA, MPLX LP, Petition for Review (pdf) (83.68 KB)
  Petition for review of the final Title V Operating Permit for the Wonsits Valley Compressor Station in Utah
• 11/30/2020, CERCLA, Tetra Tech EC, Inc, Complaint (pdf) (1.16 MB)
  Complaint for Declaratory Relief alleging violations of CERCLA and the APA for unlawfully approving a Work Plan as part of a response action at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in San Francisco, CA.
• 11/30/2020, CAA, Calumet Montana Refining,LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.2 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 11/30/2020, CAA, Calumet Shreveport Refining, LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.2 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 11/30/2020, CAA, Par Hawaii Refining, LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.2 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 11/30/2020, CAA, Wyoming Refining Company, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.2 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 11/30/2020, CAA, Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma, Protected Petition for Review (pdf) (33.37 KB)
  Protective petition for review of EPA’s October 1, 2020, action approving the State of Oklahoma’s request under Section 10211(a) of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act of 2005
• 11/30/2020, CAA, Wynnewood Refining Company, LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.2 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/01/2020, Clean Air Act, ERGON-WEST VIRGINIA, INC., Petition for Review (pdf) (17.29 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 11/30/2020, RCRA, Labadie Environmental Organization, Petition for Review (pdf) (433.42 KB)
  Hazardous and Solid Waste Management System: Disposal of Coal Combustion Residuals From Electric Utilities
• 12/02/2020, Clean Air Act, Calumet Montana Refining, LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.22 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/02/2020, Clean Air Act, AMERICAN REFINING GROUP, INC., Petition for Review (pdf) (1.18 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/02/2020, Clean Air Act, COUNTRYMARK REFINING AND LOGISTICS, LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.22 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/02/2020, Clean Air Act, COUNTRYMARK REFINING AND LOGISTICS, LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.2 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/02/2020, Clean Air Act, PAR HAWAII REFINING, LLC; U.S. OIL & REFINING COMPANY; WYOMING REFINING COMPANY, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.22 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/02/2020, Clean Air Act, ERGON REFINING, INC.; ERGON-WEST VIRGINIA, INC., Petition for Review (pdf) (1.22 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/02/2020, Clean Air Act, PLACID REFINING COMPANY LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.22 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/07/2020, CAA, Hollyfrontier Refining & Marketing, LLC, Petition for Review (pdf) (1.24 MB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final agency action: Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions under the Renewable Fuel Standard program for one or more of the compliance years 2011 through 2016
• 12/07/2020, Clean Air Act, Our Children's Earth Foundation, Complaint (pdf) (203.18 KB)
  Failure to publish state implementation plan documents for each of the 50 States
• 12/03/2020, TSCA, INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE & AGRICUTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, UAW, Petition for Review (pdf) (2.09 MB)
  Petition for Review of TSCA Section 6 Risk Evaluation of HBCD.
• 12/03/2020, TSCA, INTERNATIONAL UNION, UNITED AUTOMOBILE, AEROSPACE & AGRICUTURAL IMPLEMENT WORKERS OF AMERICA, UAW, Petition for Review (pdf) (2.09 MB)
  Petition for Review of TSCA Section 6 Risk Evaluation of HBCD.
• 12/09/2020, TSCA, California Professional Firefighters, Petition for Review (pdf) (10.26 MB)
  Petition for Review of TSCA Section 6 Risk Evaluation of HBCD.
• 12/16/2020, APA, Conservation Law Foundation and The Surfrider Foundation, Amended Complaint (pdf) (171.48 KB)
  Memo by Jeffrey Clark, Subject "Supplemental Environmental Projects (“SEPs”) in Civil Settlements with Private Defendants", Dated March 12, 2020
• 12/17/2020, FIFRA, Rural & Migrant Ministry, Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (pdf) (123.42 KB)
  Challenge to 2020 revision to the WPS Application Exclusion Zone requirement
• 12/17/2020, FIFRA, State of New York, Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (pdf) (140.31 KB)
  Challenge to 2020 revision to WPS Application Exclusion Zone requirement
• 12/21/2020, FIFRA, State of New York, Petition for Review of Final Rule (pdf) (52.73 KB)
  Challenge to 2020 revision to WPS Application Exclusion Zone requirement
• 12/21/2020, RCRA, WASCO LLC, Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief (pdf) (239.2 KB)
  Complaint for Injunctive and Declaratory Relief - EPA failed in non-discretionary duty to oversee state authorized program
• 12/21/2020, Clean Air Act, Center for Biological Diversity, Petition for Review (pdf) (180.16 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action titled “Approval of the Request for Other Use of Phosphogypsum by the Fertilizer Institute” at 85 Fed. Reg. 66,550 (Oct. 20, 2020)
• 12/22/2020, Clean Air Act, Sierra Club, Petition for Review (pdf) (316.74 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled Air Plan Approval
• 12/23/2020, ESA, National Family Farm Coalition, NFFC Petition for Review (pdf) (87.07 KB)
  Challenge to EPA's October 2020 decision to register three dicamba products for use on dicamba-tolerant crops
• 12/23/2020, FIFRA, Rural & Migrant Ministry, Petition for Review (pdf) (245.17 KB)
  Challenge to 2020 revision to the WPS Application Exclusion Zone requirement
• 12/23/2020, Clean Air Act, Urban Air Initiative, Inc., Petition for Review (pdf) (828.64 KB)
  Petition for review of EPA's final action entitled “Fuels Regulatory Streamlining” at 85 Fed. Reg. 234 (December 4, 2020)
• 12/21/2020, FIFRA, State of New York, Petition for Review of Final Rule (pdf) (158.7 KB)
  2nd. Cir. challenge to 2020 WPS AEZ rule
• 12/03/2020, CAA, American Refining Group, Inc., Petition for Review (pdf) (498.72 KB)
  Challenge the decision EPA issued on September 14, 2020, entitled "Denial of Small Refinery Gap-Filling Petitions". That decision included a denial of petitioners' gap-filling petitions for one or more of the RFS compliance years 2011 through 2016