In This Issue:

- Environmental Protection Agency

..NAAQS

..Tier 3 & 4 Standards

..Stormwater Control

..Hydraulic Fracturing Regulation

..Clean Water Act Expansion

..Renewable Fuels Standard

..OSHA Alignment

..Carbon Capture

..Other Issues

- Department of Energy (DOE)

- Department of the Interior (DOI)

- Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC)

- Department of Transportation (DOT)

- OSHA

- Excerpt from NAAQS:

U.S. EPA also plans for a long-awaited review of National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) for ozone pollution. U.S. EPA has said it is still performing analytical work, and likely won’t propose a rule until late 2014. The previous attempt to tighten the ozone standards was stopped by the White House in 2010 prior to the midterm elections that November. The agency is also considering a NAAQS for lead, which is due to be proposed in July 2014. An implementation rule for the 2012 NAAQS for fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) is scheduled for May of this year.