RCRA Settlement May Boost Waste Law Suits Despite Averting Precedent

A proposed settlement between environmentalists and Washington state dairy farms subjecting manure to Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) solid waste mandates is part of a "mosaic" of law that could boost suits seeking to apply RCRA to manure, sources say, despite the pact averting any precedential court ruling on the issue. Advocates and industry on May 11 proposed the consent decree to settle three linked suits in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. In that...