Groups Push Competing Challenges To EPA's Waste Classification Rule

Environmentalists and industry groups in new legal briefs filed Sept. 29 are detailing their opposing arguments in their challenges to EPA's rule classifying commercial secondary materials sent to combustion units, with both calling the rule "arbitrary and capricious" but making the contention on competing grounds. The briefs respond to EPA's argument defending the agency's Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials (NHSM) rule in response to challenges from both industry parties and environmentalists. The consolidated case, Solvay USA...