Advocates' Suit Seeks Deadline For EPA To Develop RCRA Oil & Gas Rules

Environmentalists are suing EPA in a bid to force a deadline for the agency to develop first-time solid waste rules under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) for oil and gas industry wastes, arguing that the agency has missed nine successive statutory deadlines requiring it to assess whether to craft the regulations. In a May 4 complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, advocates note that RCRA's subtitle D solid waste provisions require the...