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Vol. 41, Nos. 1-51, pp. 1-2896
Jan. 1 - Dec. 31, 2010

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    ABANDONED MINES
      – Coal mining fee use for non-coal mine cleanup
        – – Administration focus on coal mine cleanups, Senate hearing, 943
        – – Approval
          See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4817
      – Discharge permits, W.Va. reclamation activities (4th Cir.), 2521
      – DOI FY2011 budget proposal, Senate hearing, 500
      – Grants, DOI announcement, 17
    ABOVEGROUND STORAGE TANKS
      – Gasoline terminals
        – – Anti-terrorism standards, request for comments, 175
        – – VOCs emissions, consent decree (D. Guam), 878
      – Hazardous waste removal from tanker trailer, origin irrelevant (E.D. Ky.), 616
    ACCOUNTING STANDARDS
      – Emissions trading liabilities for allocations, 2066
    ACID RAIN
      – Blog, EPA development, 823
      – CAIR rule
      – Decrease in emissions, 1989-2008, 528
      – NAAQS for NOx and SOx, EPA recommendations, 597; comment period extension, 881; CASAC endorsement of acidification index, 978; CASAC recommendations, 2730
      – Sulfur dioxide, emissions reduction since 1995, 2843
    ACRYLAMIDE (79-06-1)
      – Drinking water standard, 6-year review, 685; comment period, 752
    ADHESIVES
      – NESHAP, definition of material containing hazardous air pollutants, 1225
    ADVISORY COMMITTEES
      – Blue Ribbon Panel on America's Nuclear Future
        – – Charter, 488
        – – Creation, 272; Senate Energy Comm. budget hearing, 332
        – – Disposal subcommittee meeting, rethinking of regulations and standards, 2010
        – – First meeting, 555; transcripts available, 792
        – – Interim storage, pleas for construction of facilities, 1831; centralized interim storage recommendation, 1941
        – – Members to look forward, not consider past options, 747
        – – Public acceptability of recommendations high priority, 748
        – – Second meeting, 1189
        – – Subcommittee meetings scheduled, 1414
      – Clean Air Compliance Analysis Adv. Council, CAA cost-benefit analysis, 2614
      – Clean Air Sci. Adv. Comm. (CASAC)
        – – Acidification index endorsement, 978; recommendations, 2730
        – – Carbon monoxide NAAQS, recommendations on policy assessment, 879
        – – Fine particulates, health risks justify stricter NAAQS, 821
        – – GHG regulation, EPA consideration of new rules on reporting, vehicle emissions, 259
        – – Nitrogen dioxide monitoring in cities and near roadways, NAAQS requirements, 2502
        – – Ozone, endorsement of stricter NAAQS despite implementation concerns, 199
        – – Particulate matter, visibility indicators, 1046
        – – PSD, EPA guidance on GHG controls, 260
      – Climate Change Adaptation Task Force, 475; progress report, 672; incorporation recommendations, 2298
      – Environmental Techs. Trade Adv. Comm., meeting scheduled, 853
      – FIFRA Sci. Advisory Panel, atrazine in drinking water, 1076
      – Good Neighbor Environmental Board, 1420
      – Great Lakes Sci. Adv. Bd., 1368
      – Interagency Ocean Policy Task Force, recommendations, 1650
      – Local Government Advisory Comm., appointments, 2377; chair, 2616
      – National Acads. Sci. and Tech. for Sustainability Program, ad hoc comm., 2812
      – National Advisory Council for Envtl. Policy and Tech. (NACEPT), Johnson appointment as chair, 504
      – National Envtl. Justice Adv. Council
        – – Air emissions associated with goods movement, 951
        – – Effects of EPA activities, 227
        – – Enforcement priorities, EPA, 282
        – – EPA draft plan, 2585
        – – Lead in school drinking water, 951
        – – Permitting process, 2586
        – – Systematic challenge, 2587
      – National Ocean Council, creation, 1650
      – Science Adv. Bd.
        – – Arsenic in drinking water, support of draft risk assessment, 794; recommendations, 2416; conditional approval of review, 2636
        – – Hazardous air pollutants, recommendations on risk analysis, 655
        – – Hydraulic fracturing risk assessment, recommendations on study, 847; recommendations on study focus, 1475
        – – Mountaintop Mining Panel, surface mine impact on water quality, 1664; comment period extension, 1886; concerns about science, utility, 1939
        – – Nutrient criteria development, recommendations on draft guidance, 430
        – – Research and Dev. Office, Anastas outlines priorities, 850
        – – Trichloroethylene as human carcinogen, support, 1067
      – U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Comm'n, China may surpass U.S. in clean energy development, 833
      – Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Comm., consideration of climate impacts on wildlife, 833
    AEROSOLS
      – VOC emissions, Cal. violations
        – – Deodorant maker settlement, 390
        – – Hair care product maker settlement, 700
    AEROSPACE INDUSTRY
      – Duwamish Waterway habitat restoration under CERCLA, proposed consent decree (W.D. Wash.), 1002
      – Hazardous waste, settlement of violations at Kan. plant, 1646
      – Natural resource claims, settlement (N.J. Super. Ct.), 114
      – NESHAP, residual risk review, 2176
      – Rocket testing, Wallops Island soil contamination remedial action plan, 744
    AGRICULTURE
      – AgStar program expansion, EPA-USDA interagency agreement, 992
      – Biomass fuel crop development, financial assistance program proposed rule, 265; notice of establishment, 2408; USDA endorsement, 2409
      – Chesapeake Bay
        – – Conservation pilot program, selection of regions, 1417
        – – Cropland, excessive nutrient releases, 2466
        – – Md. nutrient management plans, identifying information (Md. Cir. Ct.), 2093
        – – Restoration efforts, farmer concerns, 2080
      – Concentrated animal feeding operations
      – Conservation Stewardship Program, revisions, 1315
      – Emissions trading, benefits of cap-and-trade legislation, 605
      – Feed mill settlement of Iowa air permit violations (Iowa Dist. Ct.), 392
      – Fertilizer piles, Md. fines farm for wastewater violations, 763
      – Runoff, stricter state regulations needed, 751
      – Sage grouse protection
        – – Cattle grazing allotments, remand of Forest Serv. study (9th Cir.), 630; sliding scale test justifies injunction, 1781
        – – Population and habitat protection initiative, 630; USDA-DOI agreement, 851
      – Water contamination by nutrients
      – Water quality, USDA financial and technical assistance, 1533
    AGRICULTURE DEPARTMENT (USDA)
      – FY2011 budget, administration proposal, 304
    AIR CONDITIONERS
      – Motor vehicles, comment period extension on HFO-1234y use as refrigerant, 319
    AIR POLLUTION
    AIR QUALITY STANDARDS
    AIR TOXICS
    AIR TRANSPORTATION
      – Airplane deicing, industry opposition to proposed stormwater rule, 621
      – Biofuels
        – – Boeing-China partnership on development, agreements, 1233
        – – DOD-industry development plan, 672
      – Environmental technologies, FAA contracts, 1455
      – Lead in aviation gasoline
        – – Outlook 2010, SplRpt (1/22/10) S–6
        – – Propeller aircraft ban proposal, 103; OMB review of endangerment finding, 527; advance notice seeking comment, 776; request for comments, 879
      – Noise impact analysis, FAA program challenge (U.S., rev den), 151
      – SIP conformity, FAA air traffic plan for states adjacent to New York City and Philadelphia (U.S., rev den), 151
    AIRPORTS
      – Deicing fluid use, no immediate threat (U.S., rev sought), 1703; (rev den), 2255
      – Rental car idling, settlement of charges (D. Mass.), 1632
    ALABAMA
      – BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill, lawsuits (M.D. Ala.), 1897
      – Dairy waste overflow onto timber company property (S.D. Ala.), 2805
      – Endangered species listings, impact on hydroelectric dams, 2474
      – Hazardous waste, residents denied class certification (M.D. Ala.), 2520
      – Pipe maker wastewater discharges into Black Warrior River tributary, settlement, criminal pleas (N.D. Ala.), 23; civil violations settled, 1594
      – Refinery emissions, settlement of CAA violations (S.D. Tex.) (D.P.R.), 721
      – Vehicle emissions, atty. gen. seeks court order reopening GHG endangerment finding (D.C. Cir.), 893; motion denied, 1404
      – Water rights, Fla. use of ESA for higher downstream flows rejected (M.D. Fla.), 1730
    ALASKA
      – Bering Strait nature park, consideration of U.S.-Russia talks, 2026
      – Coal dust migration, environmental groups suit against railroad, mining company (D. Alaska), 117
      – Discharge permits
        – – Cruise ships, issuance of general permit, 955; rejection of petition challenging, 1787
        – – Red Dog Mine expansion, challenge of permit, 423; EPA withdrawal of five contested permit components, 789
        – – Seafood processing
          – – – Catcher-processor vessel, violations settlement, 1532
          – – – Operation without permit, settlement 2476.1, 1532
      – Discharge permits, transfer of authority (9th Cir.), 2528
      – Dredging and filling, state, road construction contractors settle water violations (D. Alaska), 1319
      – Drinking water, rural system violations, 1846
      – Endangered species
        – – Cook Inlet beluga whale critical habitat designation
          – – – Comment period extension, 129
          – – – State seeks overturning of listing (D.D.C.), 1319
        – – Polar bears, draft economic analysis of critical habitat designation, 1255; designation, 2701; notice of intent to sue, 2867
        – – Steller sea lions
          – – – Fishery closure recommendations, 1844; state challenges commercial fishing limits (D. Alaska), 2815
          – – – Governor petition to remove from threatened list, 2029
      – Mining, Pebble Project permit suspensions, 446; reinstatement, 955
      – NPL, additions and deletions, 484
      – Oil and gas
        – – Beaufort Sea drilling proposal
          – – – Challenge (9th Cir.), 30; approval upheld, 1146
          – – – NPDES permit application, 408
          – – – PSD, draft permit issuance for exploratory drilling, 408; final permit approval, 848
          – – – Shell plans for 2011, 2326
          – – – Suspension of permits, governor objects, 1252
        – – Chukchi Sea air quality permit, issuance, 776; suspension of permits, governor objects, 1252
        – – Community oversight of industry, recommendations for Gulf Coast, 1840
        – – Lease Sale 193, order allowing exploratory well tests in Chukchi Sea (D. Alaska), 1842; start of new impact study, 2265
        – – Leasing plan for Chukchi, Beaufort, and Bering Seas
          – – – Environmental impact assessment, missed deadline, 500; Senate hearing, 500
          – – – Shell drilling plans for 2011, 2326
        – – National offshore development plan, varied opinions, 726
        – – National Petroleum Reserve
          – – – Fill permit denial, 340; reconsideration denial, 693
          – – – Lease sale scheduled, 1604
          – – – Planning process, integrated activity plan and EIS, 1781
        – – North Aleutian Basin, lack of guidance, 849
        – – Offshore drilling, petition for injunction against federal moratorium (D. Alaska), 2090
        – – Regulatory review, consideration of stricter rules, 1608
        – – Trans Alaska Pipeline, operation resumes after power outage, oil spill, 1253
      – Oil spills
        – – Contingency plan, intent to sue, 2588
        – – Exxon Valdez
          – – – Lingering oil, impact on wildlife, 338
          – – – Seafood processors' share of damages (U.S., rev sought), 78; (rev den), 491
        – – Princess Kathleen, oil removal from ship that sank in 1952, 1254
        – – Prudhoe Bay, motion to revoke BP probation (D. Alaska), 2637
        – – Seabulk Pride, settlement of state claims, 1543
      – Particulate matter, link with hospital visits, 2029
      – Seafood processing
        – – Consent decree settling air, EPCRA violations (D. Alaska), 908
        – – Discharge permits
          – – – Catcher-processor vessel violations settlement, 1532
          – – – Operation without permit, settlement, 2476
        – – Exxon Valdez oil spill damages (U.S., rev sought), 78
      – Tongass Natl. Forest
        – – Logging restrictions, dismissal of challenge (D.D.C.), 440
        – – Logjam Timber Project, sale may proceed (9th Cir.), 1540
        – – Roadless Rule exemption, challenge (D. Alaska), 30
      – Wetlands, fill permit issuance for Red Dog Mine expansion, 616
    ALGAE
      – Grand Lake St. Mary, Ohio governor request for aid, 1551; USDA funding, 1673; state remedial measures, 1792
      – National strategy to study algal blooms
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3650
    ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
      – Aftermarket conversions of motor vehicles, proposed approval process, 1045
      – Biofuels
      – Clean energy
      – Low-carbon fuels
        – – Oil industry challenge of Cal. standard (E.D. Cal.), 290
        – – Standards, memorandum of understanding between RGGI states, Pa., 65
        – – Transportation fuels, joint U.S.-Canada regional initiative, 1572
      – N.Y. governor signs bill, 1791
      – Renewable energy
      – Research projects, DOE grant awards, 994
      – Waste-to-energy plant, excess dioxin emissions (Conn. Super. Ct.), 1906
    ALUMINUM INDUSTRY
      – Penalties, Hydro Aluminum violations at 16 sites nationwide, 284
    AMERICAN RECOVERY AND REINVESTMENT ACT (ARRA)
      – Carbon sequestration
        – – Grants for industrial applications, 1356
        – – Research and development, funding awards, 1995
      – Energy efficiency
        – – Block grant program, expenditures, 1876
        – – Retrofit Ramp-Up Initiative, awards to increase building energy efficiency, 889
        – – State project funding, obligations, 1575
        – – Weatherization funds, expenditure, 474; impacts of Davis-Bacon Act requirements, 670; awards, 1937
      – Energy technology development, DOE innovation program, 475; small business awards, 1758
      – Environmental justice, opportunities for promotion, 798
      – EPA allocations, all funds obligated, 435
      – Nuclear waste, funding hastening legacy site cleanups, 747; Senate budget hearing, 901
      – Port Authority of N.Y. and N.J., clean air plan, 529
      – Renewable energy
        – – Application reviews, senator unhappy with DOE decisions, 994
        – – Direct payments program extension
          See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, S 2899
        – – Grants in lieu of tax credits
          See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 4213
        – – House Republican pledge to America, impact on funding, 2246
        – – Job creation, data request, 2680
        – – Spending impact on meeting goals, report, 1935
        – – State project funding, obligations, 1575
      – Rescission of unspent funding
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 6403
      – Spending on track, White House report, 383
      – State revolving funds, drinking water projects deadline compliance, 22
      – Underground storage tank cleanups, 742; abbreviated dispute resolution process, 1524; inconsistent implementation of Solid Waste Disposal Act requirements, OIG report, 2631
      – Water infrastructure
        – – Buy American provisions, Canada manufacturer concerns, 1473
        – – Funds running out, municipalities seek additional funding, 1653
        – – Identification of green projects, EPA guidance inadequacies, 279
        – – Rural utilities, USDA funding, 26
        – – State revolving funds, drinking water projects deadline compliance, 22
      – Wind energy, loan guarantee for Hawaiian developer, 540
    AMMONIA (7664-41-7)
      – Fertilizer application, pollution exclusion clause (10th Cir.), 2876
      – Meat processing, compliance agreement over Cal. facility release, 462
      – Poultry processing, N.C. fine for fatal release, 320
      – Water quality, draft criteria to protect freshwater life, 26
    ANIMAL WASTE MANAGEMENT
    ANTITRUST
      – Energy efficiency, LEED certification system monopoly (S.D.N.Y.), 2358
    APPALACHIA
    APPLIANCES
      – Carbon footprint, full fuel-cycle analysis, DOE proposal, 1936; opposition, 2302
      – Energy Star program
        – – Fraud and abuse, certification of fictitious products, 732; EPA announces stricter requirements, 829
        – – Reforms planned for 2009, lack of implementation, 2453
      – Freezers, proposed tougher energy efficiency standards, 2118
      – Labeling, Energy Star product testing plan, 669
      – National Consensus Appliance Agreements Act, introduction, 2246
      – Noncompliance of products sold, DOE penalties, 2064
      – Refrigerators
        – – Energy efficiency violations, 112
        – – Tougher energy efficiency standards, proposal, 2118
      – Reporting, energy efficiency compliance data, 112
      – Televisions, energy efficiency labeling proposal, 542; approval, 2406
      – Water heaters, two-tiered energy efficiency standard based on capacity, 784
    APPROPRIATIONS
      – Continuing appropriations bill
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 3082
      – FY2011, alternative package to continuing resolution, 2810
    ARCTIC REGION
      – Bering Strait nature park, consideration of U.S.-Russia talks, 2026
      – Climate change
        – – Economic loss estimate due to carbon releases, 371
        – – Reversal unlikely, 2410
        – – Sea ice changes
          – – – Pacific walrus, listing decision postponed to review studies (D. Alaska), 2154
          – – – Study of effects on ecosystem, carbon absorption, 1302
      – Oil and gas development
        – – Scientific review, 848
        – – Shell plans for 2011, 2326
      – Oil spills
        – – Polar bears, intent to sue over potential impact from drilling activities, 1014
        – – Research commission on funding, coordination, 691
      – Research policy coordination, jurisdiction under Sci. and Tech. Council, 1696
      – Shipping, North Am.-Nordic countries agree on need for new regulations, 1369
    ARIZONA
      – Apache Powder Superfund site, consent decree (D. Ariz.), 16
      – Climate change
        – – Authority to regulate GHGs, limiting bill, 910; governor signs, 1026
        – – Western regional initiative
      – Copper mining, settlement of state air violations, 2424
      – Particulate matter
        – – Federal implementation plans (N.D. Cal.), 2837
        – – Maricopa air quality plan, proposed disapproval over coarse particulates, 2030
      – Power plants, Navajo Generating Station federal implementation plan, 599
      – Radon emissions from uranium mine, validity of state permit in question, 1174
      – Rosemont copper mine, limits
        See LEGISLATION, FEDERAL, HR 2944
      – Uranium mining near Grand Canyon, appeal of injunction denial (9th Cir.), 1604
      – Wetlands, jurisdiction over segments of Santa Cruz River, denial of motion to change venue (D.D.C.), 74
    ARKANSAS
      – John W. Turk Jr. power plant, coal gasification technology consideration, 179
      – Phosphorus limits for wastewater plant, EPA disclosure of documents, 221
    ARRA
    ARSENIC (7440-38-2)
      – Drinking water
      – Firing range contamination, environmental and cultural impacts (D. Haw.), 2473
      – Soil levels at Mo. soccer complex, 2463
    ASBESTOS (1332-21-4)
      – Criminal enforcement, 2009 cases, Analysis & Perspective, 574
      – Dumping illegal, sentencing of N.Y. men (N.D.N.Y.), 1289
      – Falsification of reports and air quality data, conviction of N.Y. company (N.D.N.Y.), 2295
      – Insurance, pollution exclusion endorsement overrides conflicting policy language (6th Cir.), 1150
      – Libby Asbestos Site
        – – Cleanup, records of decision, 1062
        – – Injury claims against Mont. for failure to warn (3rd Cir.), 168
      – Removal operations, CAA violations (W.D.N.Y.), 2562
      – Tailing piles, CEO responsibility for corporate actions (Vt.), 236
      – Training certification fraud, arrest of woman in Dominican Republic, 2472
    ASH
    ATTORNEYS' FEES
      – Hazardous waste, recoverability by voluntarily dismissed defendant (N.D. Cal.), 2857
    AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY
      – Car and light truck GHG emissions limits, motion to intervene on behalf of EPA (D.C. Cir.), 1295
      – Cash for Clunkers, program successes, 995
      – Clean energy, Chevrolet project investments, 2625
      – GM bankruptcy
        – – Brownfields redevelopment, plan submittal (Bankr. S.D.N.Y.), 2070
        – – Federal investment in redevelopment of properties, 1132; Buick City approved by EPA for cleanup, 1188; negotiations on division of trust fund, 1360
      – Radiator fluids dumping, restitution of testing and monitoring costs (Cal. Ct. App.), 2765
      – Vehicle emissions
        – – Cal. standards adoption, industry drops suits (9th Cir.) (D. R.I.) (D. Vt.), 778
        – – Honda tops ranking of lowest emissions, 2308

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