Oppose Modification of NPDES General Permit for New and

The groups on this fight

2 groups predicted likely to care in Texas

Predicted likely to care is a guess from footprint in Texas, by the same match the STAND matchmaker runs, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.

• National Parks Conservation Association

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Texas: plaintiff in the challenge to the blanket Gulf oil and gas endangered species exemption, naming Padre Island among the threatened parks.

• National Wildlife Federation

  Predicted likely to care · a guess

  Works Texas: co-plaintiff in the God Squad suit over Gulf drilling impacts on Kemp's ridley sea turtles.

Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.

EPA's Region 6 is proposing to modify an existing NPDES permit that governs pollution discharges from offshore oil and gas operations in the Gulf of America (formerly Gulf of Mexico) off Louisiana and Texas. The key change extends the deadline for operators to comply with toxicity limits on well treatment, completion, and workover fluids by three years, from May 2025 to May 2028. It also adds new discharge duration reporting requirements and renames the Gulf of Mexico to Gulf of America throughout the permit.

The Regional Administrator of Region 6 is seeking comments on a proposed narrow modification to the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) General Permit No. GMG290000 for existing and new sources and new dischargers in the Offshore Subcategory of the Oil and Gas Extraction Point Source Category, located in and discharging to the Outer Continental Shelf offshore of Louisiana and Texas. The discharge of produced water to that portion of the Outer Continental Shelf from Offshore Subcategory facilities located in the territorial seas of Louisiana and Texas is also authorized by this permit. The prop…

Federal Register 2026-01469 ↗

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