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8/23/2017	CAA, Environmental Defense Fund; Environmental Integrity Project; Adirondack Council; Maryland Environmental Health Network;Chesapeake Climate Action Network;Sierra Club Environmental Law Program; Chesapeake Physicians for Social Responsibility 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.
8/22/2017	CAA, Douglas Lindamood Alleged violation of emissions limits and SIPs related to VW, Audi, and Porsche vehicles.
8/16/2017	CAA, Ho-Chunk Nation and Sierra Club, and its John Muir Chapter For failure to respond to their petition to object to the Title V Operating Permit issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource for the Superior Silica Sands-Arland Plant.
8/16/2017	CAA, Ho-Chunk Nation and Sierra Club, and its John Muir Chapter For failure to respond to their petition to object to the Title V Operating Permit issued by the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resource to Wisconsin Proppants, LLC.
8/3/2017	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Environmental Health, and the Clean Air Council For EPA’s failure to make a failure of finding to submit for the 2012 PM2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas for SIPs.
7/27/2017	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity; Center for Environmental Health Failure to make findings of failure to submit for 2008 ozone NAAQS nonattainment areas state implementation plans.
7/26/2017	CAA, Chesapeake Bay Foundation, Inc. For EPA’s failure to hold a public hearing and either grant or deny the Section 126 Petition filed by the Maryland Department of the Environment ("MOE") on November 16, 2016 regarding emissions from 36 coal-fired electric generating units ("EGUs").
7/20/2017	CAA, State of Maryland, by and through the Maryland Department of the Environment 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.
7/7/2017	CAA, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection For failure to establish guidelines for standards of performance for methane emissions from existing oil and gas operations.
6/29/2017	CAA, the States of New York, California, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico, Oregon, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Washington, the Commonwealths of Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, Chicago For failure to establish guidelines for standards of performance for methane emissions from existing oil and gas operations.
6/21/2017	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Environmental Health and the Sierra Club For failure to perform mandatory duty to ensure adequate protection against conflicts of interest in air pollution permitting and enforcement.
6/7/2017	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health For failure to take final action re ozone nonattainment areas state implementation plans to address Photochemical Assessment Monitoring Stations (PAMS).
5/18/2017	CAA, Small Retailers Coalition For EPA's noncompliance with sections 603 and 604 of the RFA.
5/8/2017	CWA, Natural Resources Defence Council NoI attached with district court complaint.
5/8/2017	CWA, NRDC NoI in relation to EPA's alleged refusal to designate for NPDES permitting cerain discharges in LA watershed.
5/8/2017	CWA, NRDC NoI received with complaint related to challenge to alleged refusal to designate for NPDES permitting discharges in the Batlimore watershed.
4/27/2017	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 60-day NOI regarding EPA's failure to approve or disapprove NYS's primary contact recreation criteria.
4/26/2017	CAA, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Chesapeake, Inc. For failure to timely respond to our petition to object to the proposed Title V Operating Permit for the Fort Smallwood complex.
3/20/2017	CAA, State of Connecticut Failure to grant or deny section 126 petition filed by Connecticut regarding Brunner Island Steam Electric Station in York County, Pennsylvania.
3/14/2017	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health For failure to make findings of failure to submit for 2008 ozone NAAQS nonattainment areas state implementation plans.
3/13/2017	CAA, Sierra Club For failure to grant or deny section 126 petition filed by Connecticut regarding Brunner Island Steam Electric Station in York County, Pennsylvania.
3/10/2017	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston For failure to grant or deny a petition to object to Part 70 operating permit for the Port Arthur Refinery in Jefferson County, Texas.
3/8/2017	CAA, Sierra Club 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.
2/23/2017	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston 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.
2/14/2017	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health For failure to make “bump up” determinations for Philadelphia and Washington D.C. marginal nonattainment areas for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
2/9/2017	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club 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.
1/19/2017	CWA, Environmental Law & Policy Center Mandatory duty NOI regarding Ohio's 2016 303(d) List.
1/13/2017	CAA, Bill Green 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.
1/13/2017	ESA, Gulf Restoration Network, Little Tchefuncte River Association, Sierra Club Delta Chapter, Louisiana Audubon Council, Louisiana Environmental Action Network Re: June 3, 2016 EPA Approval of Louisiana's Dissolved Oxygen Criteria Revisions for the Eastern Lower Mississippi Alluvial Plain Ecoregion. Sixty-Day Notice of Intent to Sue: Violations of the Endangered Species Act Related to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Failure to Consult.
12/29/2016	CAA, Douglas Lindamood 5130 Falcon Ridge Road Roanoke, Virginia 24018 For unreasonable delay in completing alleged mandatory duties to notify states and vehicle owners about alleged violations of state implementation plans
12/22/2016	CAA, Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project 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.
12/20/2016	CWA, EPA Mandatory duty challenge to Region 5 demanding that they act on Ohio's 2016 303(d) list.
12/7/2016	MPRSA, New York Department of State, New York Department of Environmental Conservation 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 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.
11/4/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity; Center for Environmental Health For failure to perform a mandatory duty with regard to PM2.5 to protect the North Coast Air Quality Management District in California.
11/4/2016	CAA, Valero Energy Corporation For failure to perform non-discretionary duties which relate to defining the obligated party for the RFS program.
11/3/2016	CAA, Climate Change Law Foundation; Association of Irritated Residents; Center for Biological Diversity; Sierra Club 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.
10/28/2016	CWA, Northwest Environmental Advocates Mandatory duty lawsuit against Oregon to approve or disapprove the state's 2012 303(d) list.
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 For Unreasonable Delay in Responding to a Petition for the Regulation of CAFOs under the Clean Air Act.
10/14/2016	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, Air Alliance Houston, and Environment Texas For Unreasonable Delay and Failure to Perform a Non-Discretionary Duty to Revise and Re-Issue or Deny Three Title V Permits Issued by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (Shell Deer Park Chemical Plant, Shell Deer Park Refinery, and SWEPCO's I-1. W. Pirkey Power Plant)
10/13/2016	CAA, Sierra Club Concerning Clean Air Act deadlines related to Commercial and Industrial Solid Waste Incinerators and other categories of Solid Waste Incinerators
10/12/2016	CAA, Sierra Club For failure to grant or deny a petition seeking an objection by EPA to the Title V Operating Permit renewal for the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Gallatin Fossil Plant
10/6/2016	CAA, New England Gen-Connect, LLC For failure to respond to petition regarding “Control of Emissions from New, Small Nonroad Spark-Ignition Engines and Equipment” to take action to remedy violations of the Act by certain generator conversion kit companies.
9/29/16	CWA, ESA, Center for Biological Diversity and Northwest Environmental Advocates Notice of Violations of the Endangered Species Act Regarding Approval of Water Quality Standards in New Hampshire, Vermont, Maine, and Connecitcut.
9/23/2016	ESA, Northwest Environmental Advocates Notice of intent to allege violations Endangered Species Act consultation provisions for administration of nonpoint source grant funds
9/22/2016	CWA, George Barto, Beth Barto, and citizens of Borough of Blairsville PA Failure to perform nondiscretionary duty
9/21/2016	SDWA, Perry Lee Oil & Gas Company Texas business-owner is asking EPA to weigh in on his legal dispute with several oil companies and the Texas Railroad Commission.
9/14/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Environmental Health, and the Clean Air Council For failure to take final action and failure to make findings of failure to submit for 2008 ozone NAAQS nonattainment areas state implementation plans
8/25/2016	CAA, Sierra Club 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
8/25/2016	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to grant or deny a petition seeking an objection by EPA to the Title V Operating Permit proposed by the North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality, Division of Air Quality for Duke Energy Progress, LLC’s Roxboro Steam Electric Plant in Caswell County, North Carolina
8/22/2016	CWA, Columbia Riverkeeper, Idaho Rivers United, Snake River Waterkeeper, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations, and the Institute for Fisheries Resources Alleging non-discretionary duty to establish TMDL for temperature on Lower Columbia River
8/16/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and Center for Environmental Health For failure to perform a mandatory duty with regard to PM2.5 to protect the state of Wisconsin.
8/3/2016	CAA, Citizens for Clean Air and Sierra Club 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.
7/21/2016	CAA, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project For unreasonable delay in responding to petition requesting that EPA reconsider its final action on the startup and shutdown provisions from the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards.
7/21/2016	CWA, Municipality of San Juan Notice of Intent to Sue for aerial spraying of pesticides in Puerto Rico to combat the Zika Virus
7/18/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health For failure to perform mandatory duties for PM2.5
7/7/2016	CAA, Sierra Club 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
7/6/2016	CAA, Sierra Club 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
7/5/2016	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Air Alliance Houston, Environment Texas, Texas Campaign for the Environment, Downwinders at Risk, Neighbors for Neighbors, Public Citizen's Texas Office and the SEED Coalition For unreasonable delay in responding to Petition for EPA action to address startup, shutdown, and maintenance exemptions in revised permits for Texas coal-fired power plants
7/1/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health For failure to perform multiple mandatory duties with regard to PM2.5
6/30/2016	CAA, State of New York Failure to perform non-discretionary duty to promulgate Federal Implementation Plan for Kentucky's Good Neighbor provision requirements for the 2008 ozone NAAQS
6/9/2016	CAA, Chesapeake Climate Action Network, Sierra Club, Environmental Integrity Project and Physicians for Social Responsibility, Chesapeake, Inc. For failure to timely grant or deny a petition to object to the Title V operating permit for the Morgantown Generating Station
6/6/2016	CAA, Sierra Club For failure to promulgate Federal Implementation Plan for Kentucky Good Neighbor provision
5/17/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, the Center for Environmental Health, and the Clean Air Council Deadline suit for failure to submit and failure to act on 2008 ozone attainment SIPs
4/27/2016	CAA, Finger Lakes Zero Waste Coalition, Inc For failure to perform nondiscretionary duty under the CAA to respond to Petition filed on or about February 8, 2016, requesting that the Administrator object to the Title V operating permit for the Seneca Energy II, LLC, Ontario County Landfill Gas to Energy · Facility
4/27/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and the Center for Environmental Health 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
4/27/2016	CAA, Sierra Club, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles, WildEarth Guardians, and Center for Biological Diversity For failure to perform non-discretionary duties related to the implementation of the 1997 NAAQS PM2.5 in the Los Angeles-South Coast Air Basin, CA nonattainment area
4/18/2016	CAA, States of New York, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont Failure to Act on their Petitions Under Clean Air Act Section 176A
4/8/2016	CAA, Community In-Power and Development Association Inc., Hoosier Environmental Council, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, and the Utah Physicians for a Healthy Environment 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.
4/7/2016	CWA, Potomac Riverkeeper Network Allegation EPA failed to fulfill mandatory duty to approve or disapprove Virginia's 2014 303(d) list.
4/6/2016	CAA, Citizens for Clean Air and the Sierra Club 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.
4/4/2016	CWA, Sierra Club , West Virginia Highlands Conservatory, West Virginia Rivers Coalition Allegation EPA failed to fulfill mandatory duty to approve or disapprove West Virginia's 2014 303(d) list.
3/24/2016	CAA, Sierra Club Amended NOI for the failure to promulgate a FIP within two years of partially disapproving Louisiana's June 13, 2008 Regional Haze SIP.
3/1/2016	CWA, Puyallup Tribe of Indians NOI regarding alleged mandatory duty to promulgate WQS in Washington State.
2/18/2016	CAA, Bill Green 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
2/16/2016	CAA, WildEarth Guardians Failure to determine that the Denver Metropolitan/North Front Range area of Colorado failed to attain the 2008 ozone NAAQS by the attainment date of July 20, 2015.
2/12/2016	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity and Elizabeth Crowe For failure to make “bump up” determinations for various marginal non-attainment areas for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
2/10/2016	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 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.
1/28/2016	CAA, Plant Oil Powered Diesel Fuel Systems, Inc. For failure to properly regulate fuel, particularly renewable diesel.
1/21/2016	CAA, Seneca County, Inc. 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.
1/21/2016	CAA, North Carolina Department of Environmental Quality Failure to timely respond to 2013 petition regarding the Ozone Transport.
1/18/2016	CAA, Appleton Coated, LLC and Wisconsin Paper Council, Inc. (complaint) Failure to grant or deny a petition regarding the Title V Operating Permit to Appleton Coated. LLC. for a plant in Wisconsin.
12/24/2015	CAA, Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League, Clean Wisconsin and Midwest Environmental Defense Center (complaint) Failure to promulgate standards for several categories of major sources of hazardous air pollutants.
12/22/2015	CWA, John Penn Whitescarver Alleging violation of mandatory duty approving an alleged defective NPDES permit for active construction stormwater issued by State of Florida.
12/22/2015	CWA, John Penn Whitescarver Alleged failure to perform a mandatory duty by approving alleged defective NPDES permit issued by Virginia for Small Municipal Separate Storm Sewers.
12/21/2015	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Sierra Club, Association of lrritacect Residents and Climate Change Law Foundation 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.
12/21/2015	CWA, Sanitary Board of the City of Charleston, West Virginia Alleging mandatory duty for EPA to approve or disapprove state-submitted WQS.
12/21/2015	CWA, Waterkeepers Washington NOI to sue EPA for failure to perform mandatory duty to promulgate human health water quality criteria for State of Washington within 90 days of proposal.
12/10/2015	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to submit non-attainment area SIP submittals for the NAAQS for S02 for 14 states.
12/4/2015	CAA, Sierra Club and Environmental Integrity Project (complaint) 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.
11/20/2015	CAA, New Era Group, Inc. For failure to enforce the Greenhouse Gas Reporting rules for suppliers of HFCs.
11/6/2015	CWA, Missouri Colation for the Environment Foundation Notice of Intent to Sue filed by Missouri Coalition for the Environment Foundation alleging nondiscretionary duty to promulgate WQS for Missouri.
11/4/2015	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals for New Jersey.
11/2/2015	NRDC, Defenders of Wildlife, The Bay Institute Alleged failure to carry out non-discretionary federal review of California water quality standards in violation of Clean Water Act section 303(c)
10/13/2015	CWA, Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance Notice alleging EPA failure to approve or disapprove Utah's CWA 303(d) list of impaired waters.
10/8/2015	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity; Center for Environmental Health; Neighbors for Clean Air Notice of intent to sue for failure to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan for Montana .
10/5/2015	CAA, Sierra Club For failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals with regard to Wyoming.
9/21/2015	CAA, Nucor Steel Louisiana LLC and Consolidated Environmental Management, Inc., a fully-owned subsidiary of Nucor Corporation (complaint) Failure to take action after objection to Nucor's Title V permit.
8/31/2015	CAA, Partnership for Policy Integrity 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
8/31/2015	CWA, ESA, Wild Fish Conservancy (complaint) 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.
8/17/2015	CAA, Sierra Club and Louisiana Environmental Action Network (complaint) 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 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.
8/13/2015	CAA, Value Recovery Inc. For failure to name a stationary major source category that includes the hazardous air pollutant, Methyl Bromide.
8/3/2015	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, and Neighbors for Clean Air (complaint) 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.
7/13/2015	CAA, Yvonne D. Lewis and Sidney T. Lewis Pro se NOI regarding failure to do alleged mandatory duties related to lead HAP emissions from leaded avgas and Ohio nonattainment areas.
7/8/2015	CAA, State of North Carolina 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).
6/17/2015	CWA, State of Maine 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.
6/11/2015	CAA, Preserve Pepe'keo Health and Environment Failure to take timely action regarding petition to object to the Hu Honua Bioenergy, LLC ("Hu Honua") Title V operating permit.
6/1/2015	CAA, Sierra Club For failure to take action on 2008 Ozone SIPs and related FIP commitments.
5/28/2015	CAA, State of Nevada Dept. of Conservation and Natural Resources Failure to Act on Nevada's 2008 Ozone NAAQS State Implementation Plan Submission as Required by 42 U.S.C. Sec. 7410(k)(2).
5/28/2015	CAA, State of Louisiana and Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality For failure to Designate Areas of Attainment or Non-Attainment for the Sulfur Dioxide NAAQS.
3/24/2015	CAA, Sierra Club For failure to promulgate a FIP within two years of EPA's partial disapproval on Louisiana's Regional Haze SIP.
3/20/2015	CAA, Sierra Club and Physicians for Social Responsibility- Los Angeles 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.
3/20/2015	CAA, Wisconsin Public Service Corporation For failure to grant or deny petitons to object to the proposed Title V permits for WPSC's De Pere Energy, LLC plant and for WPSC's Weston plant, Permit.
3/18/2015	CAA, Plant Oil Powered Diesel Fuel Systems, Inc For failure to regulate nitrous oxides emissions from biofuels, additives comprised of biofuels, and the biofuel-derived blendstocks of petroleum-based fuels run in compression ignition (diesel) engines of all kinds.
3/10/2015	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club 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.
2/20/2015	CAA, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc. Failure to Act on Petition for Reconsideration of the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants From Coal-Fired and Oil-Fired Electric Utility Steam Generating Units and Standards of Performance for Fossil-Fuel-Fired Electric Utility, Industrial-Commercial-Institutional, and Small Industrial-Commercial-Institutional Steam Generating Units, 77 Fed. Reg. 9304 (Feb. 16, 2012) ("MATS Rule").
2/11/2015	CWA, Northwest Environmental Advocates Mandatory Duties Under Section 303(c)(4) of the Clean Water Act, to Revise Oregon's Water Quality Criteria for Toxic Pollutants.
2/10/2015	CWA, Conservation Law Foundation Failure to perform nondiscretion duty to require NPDES permits for certain stormwater discharges to certain waters in RI.
2/10/2015	CWA, Conservation Law Foundation, Charles River Watershed Association Failure to perform nondiscretionary duty to notify stormwater dischargers of permit requirement and to respond to residual designation petition within 90 days.
2/5/2015	CAA, Wildearth Guardians For EPA's failure to promulgate a FIP within two years of disapproving the State of Utah's Regional Haze SIP.
2/4/2015	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 Network, Neighbors for Clean Air and Ohio Citizen Action Regarding overdue health risk and technology review (RTR) rules.
1/29/2015	CAA, HEAL Utah, National Parks Conservation Association, and Sierra Club For EPA's failure to promulgate Regional Haze FIP for Utah.
1/26/2015	CAA, WildEarth Guardians For EPA's failure to promulgate to FIP within two years of disapproving the State of Utah's Regional Haze SIP.
1/16/2015	SDWA, Sandra Reevis, Blackfeet Tribe Notice of intent to sue EPA R8 over Town of Browning water supply on Blackfeet Reservation.
1/15/2015	CAA, WildEarth Guardians For failure to take action on a number of title V permit applications pending in Region 8.
12/22/2014	CAA, Halogenated Solvents Industry Alliance, Inc. For failure to list n-Propyl Bromide as a hazardous air pollutant.
12/15/2014	CAA, American Petroleum Institute 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.
12/12/2014	CWA, Idaho Conservation League Notice of intent to sue EPA for approval of Idaho Antidegradation rule.
12/2/2014	SDWA, Peter Bormuth Non-discretionary duty suit for permitting Class II UIC well in violation of the SDWA and implementing regulations.
12/1/2014	CAA, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers For failure to issue the 2015 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
12/1/2014	CAA, American Petroleum Institute For failure to issue the 2015 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
11/21/2014	CAA, American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers For failure to issue the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard Regulations.
10/17/2014	ESA, Sierra Club, Waterkeeper Alliance, Center for Biological Diversity For EPA’s failure to comply with the Endangered Species Act regarding discharge requirements at cooling water intake structures.
10/8/2014	CAA, Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardians For failure to find that Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, and North Carolina have failed to submit SIPs to meet various requirements under Section 110(a) of the CAA with regards to the 2008 revised NAAQS for ozone.
10/8/2014	CAA, Sierra Club For failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals for Kansas and North Dakota.
10/2/2014	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to grant or deny petition to object to the proposed Title V permit for the Schiller Station power plant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
9/17/2014	CAA, Nucor Steel Louisiana LLC and Consolidated Environmental Management, Inc For failure to take mandatory action under the CAA for violations of the Administrative Procedure Act and for relief under the Declaratory Judgment Act.
9/2/2014	CAA, WildEarth Guardians For unreasonable delay in responding to petition to find that Colorado is failing to administer its Title V permitting program.
8/27/2014	CAA, Sierra Club and WildEarth Guardians For failure to make findings of failure to submit 'Good Neighbor' provisions for the 2008 ozone NAAQS.
8/4/2014	CAA, Sierra Club, Medical Advocates for Healthy Air, Physicians for Social Responsibility - Los Angeles, WildEarth Guardians, and Center for Biological Diversity 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.
7/28/2014	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston For failure to grant or deny their petition to object to a title V permit issued to Shell Chemical LP for operation of the Deer Park Chemical Plant in Harris County, Texas.
7/28/2014	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity For failure to take final action on North Carolina's 2008 Lead and Ozone NAAQS.
7/28/2014	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project, Sierra Club, and Air Alliance Houston 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.
7/15/2014	CAA, Bill Green 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.
6/20/2014	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Environmental Health, and Clean Air Council Alleging EPA's failure to perform mandatory duties under the 2008 Lead NAAQS.
5/27/2014	CWA, Ronald J. Ferguson Failure to maintain compliance with storm water permit.
5/20/2014	CAA, Finger Lakes Zero Waste Coalition, Inc. Alleging EPA's failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Seneca Energy II, Ontario County Landfill Gas to Energy Facility, NY.
5/14/2014	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Sierra Club Alleging EPA's failure to timely respond to a title V petition regarding Luminant's Monticello Plant, Texas.
5/12/2014	CAA, New Era Group Alleged failure to collect reliable data and to perform a reliable assessment of the existing inventory of and the need for HCFC-22.
5/2/2014	CAA, Californians Against Waste Failure to Perform Nondiscretionary Duties Under Section 112(d)(6) and (f) Relating to Municipal Solid Waste Landfills.
4/28/2014	CAA, Sierra Club, (Complaint) 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).
4/23/2014	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to take final action on 2008 ozone NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittals and failure to make finding of failure to submit.
4/22/2014	CAA, State of Wyoming Failure to Act on Wyoming's 2008 Lead NAAQS State Plan Submission.
3/18/2014	CAA, Monroe Energy LLC Failure to respond to a Petition for Reconsideration and a Petition for Partial Waiver of EPA's Regulation of Fuels and Fuel Additives 2013 Renewable Fuel Standards, published at 78 Fed. Reg. 49794 (Aug. 15, 2013)
2/19/2014	CAA, Nucor Steel-Arkansas, Nucor-Yamato Steel Company Failure to grant or deny Nucor's petition for an objection to Title V Operating Permit issued to Big River Steel by the Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality for a steel manufacturing facility in Osceola, Arkansas.
2/19/2014	ESA, Center for Biological Diversity Violations of the Endangered Species Act Related to the New York and New Jersey Area Contingency Plan (Hudson River Oil Spill).
2/10/2014	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to take action on 2010 sulfur dioxide NAAQS infrastructure state implementation plan submittal and failure to make finding of failures to submit.
1/27/2014	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to take action on petition for redesignation of areas that violate 2008 NAAQS for Ozone.
12/23/2013	CAA, Wild Equity Institute Alleging EPA's failure to respond to a title V petition for Gateway Generating Station, Antioch, CA.
12/16/2013	CAA, Auto Industry Forum Failure to promulgate standards under 112(d) for five major source categories.
12/3/2013	CAA, State of Wyoming Failure to act on Wyoming's nonattainment NSR SIP submission.
11/26/2013	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity Failure to make a finding of failure and take final action for 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas.
11/1/2013	CWA, Idaho Power Company Notice of Mandatory Duty to Review Site Specific Criteria in Idaho
11/1/2013	CWA, ESA, Northwest Environmental Advocates Alleges further duties under the CWA and ESA respecting Washington Water Quality Standards.
11/1/2013	CWA, Northwest Environmental Advocates Alleges further duties under the CWA relating to Idaho Water Quality Standards.
10/28/2013	CAA, Sierra Club, (Complaint) 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.
10/22/2013	CAA, Wildearth Guardians, (Complaint) 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) For failure to promulgate a Federal Implementation Plan for Montanas SIP-approved PSD program to properly regulate nitrogen oxides as an ozone precursor.
10/21/2013	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to meet statutory deadlines to set biomass-based diesel and renewable fuel requirements for 2014 standards.
9/17/2013	CAA, California Communities Against Toxics and Sierra Club Failure to conduct residual risk and technology reviews for 46 source categories
9/4/2013	CAA, Center for Biological Diversity, (Complaint) For failure to make a finding of failure to submit and take final action for 2006 PM2.5 NAAQS nonattainment areas.
8/22/2013	CAA, Pine Creek Valley Water Association, Raymond Proffitt Foundation, Delaware Riverkeeper Network, Delaware Riverkeeper Pine Creek Valley Water Association, Raymond Proffitt Foundation, and Delaware Riverkeeper Network sent a 60 day NOI(dated August 22, 2013) to file a citizen suit for failure to review Pennsylvania's Act 41. the NOI states that Act 41 bars use of parts of Pennsylvania's approved antidegradation policy. The parties, along with Delaware Riverkeeper, sent a supplemental NOI dated December 3, 2013, stating that EPA has not approved or disapproved the change in water quality standards and if EPA does not review and disapprove Act 41, the agency will violate the APA.
8/15/2013	CAA, BCCA Appeal Group Failure to promulgate designations of areas for the 1-hour NAAQS for sulfur dioxide.
8/14/2013	CWA, South Carolina Coastal Conservation League For violations in connection with approval of Clydesdale Mitigation Bank.
8/12/2014	CAA, Environmental Integrity Project and Benjamin Feldman, (Complaint) Failure to Grant or Deny Plaintiffs' Petition to Object to the Proposed Title V Operating Permit for Mettiki Coal preparation/processing plant.
8/8/2013	CAA, The State of North Carolina, (Complaint) Failure to Designate Areas for the 2010 S02 National Ambient Air Quality Standard.
8/8/2013	CWA, Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations and the Institute for Fisheries Resources 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.
8/6/2013	CAA, Wildearth Guardians Failure to find that Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, South Dakota, Utah, Washington, and Wyoming have failed to submit SIPs to meet various requirements under the CAA with regards to the 2010 revised NAAQS for nitrogen dioxide.
8/2/2013	CAA, The Attorneys General of New York, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Oregon, Rhode Island, and Vermont and the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency Failure to timely review and revise the NSPS for Residential Wood Heaters under the CAA.
8/2/2013	CAA, American Lung Association, Clean Air Council, Environmental Defense Fund, and Environment and Human Health, Inc. Failure to timely review and revise the NSPS for Residential Wood Heaters under the CAA.
7/29/2013	CWA, The State of Maine Failure to perform nondiscretionary duties under the Clean Water Act.
7/29/2013	CAA, The States of North Dakota, Nevada, South Dakota, and Texas Failure to designate areas for SO2 NAAQS.
7/23/2013	CWA, Center for Biological Diversity Threatening an APA challenge to EPA's approval of Washington and Oregon's 2010 303(d) list where the state did not list waters as impaired due to ocean acidification.
7/23/2013	CWA, Columbia Riverkeeper, Puget Soundkeeper Alliance, Spokane Riverkeeper, and North Sound Baykeeper 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.
7/22/2013	CAA, Commissioners of the County of Berks, Pennsylvania, (Complaint) 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.
7/9/2013	CAA, The States of North Dakota, Nevada, South Dakota, and Texas, (Complaint) Failure to designate areas for SO2 NAAQS.
7/1/2013	CAA, Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council Supplemental notice for failure to designate areas for the 2010 S02 NAAQS.
6/20/2013	CWA, NRDC, Clean Ocean Action, Hackensack Riverkeeper, Heal the Bay, NY/NJ Baykeeper, Riverkeeper, Waterkeeper Alliance Notice of Intent to Sue for failure to promulgate National Recreational Water Quality Criteria in compliance with the Clean Water Act.
6/19/2013	TSCA, Pro se Appears to be a notice of intent to sue EPA and a named employee alleging that EPA failed to take action against a contractor who allegedly violated lead-based paint regulations.
6/10/2013	CAA, Clean Air Council Failure to make a finding that Pennsylvania is failing to implement its SIP; for failure to determine that PA is not adequately administering and enforcing its CAA Title V permitting program; and failure to sanction PA for these actions.
6/10/2013	ESA, Turtle Island Restoration Network Notice of Intent to Sue under the ESA related to salmonid BiOps 1 and 2 (BiOps challenged in the NCAP v EPA lawsuit). Related to NOI NSC 2013-1.
6/4/2013	CAA, Sierra Club and Natural Resources Defense Council Failure to make SO2 NAAQS designations.
5/29/2013	CAA, Sierra Club, (Complaint) Failure to grant or deny petitons to object to the proposed Title V permits for seven Pennsylvania power plants.
5/23/2013	CAA, Sierra Club Failure to issue a finding of failure to submit a SIP addressing the Baltimore 1997 ozone NAAQS serious nonattainment area.
5/13/2013	CWA, Northwest Environmental Advocates, Idaho Conservation League Alleges duties under the CWA and ESA related to Idaho Water Quality Standards.
5/13/2013	CWA, West Virginia Coal Association Alleges failure to approve revisions to West Virginia's NPDES program.
4/30/2013	CWA, Idaho Conservation League Mandatory Duty to Promulgate Human Health Toxics Criteria in Idaho.