Advocates Fight Ash 'Stigma' Claim In Bid For EPA Hazardous Waste Rule

Environmentalists are using 11th-hour meetings with EPA and White House officials to fight the coal ash reuse industry's claim that it faces potential economic harm if EPA gives ash a "stigma" by classifying it as hazardous waste in its looming disposal rule, touting research they say proves the classification would not discourage reuse. According to documents reviewed by Inside EPA that were presented by environmentalists at a Nov. 10 meeting with EPA and White House Office of Management &...