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Over industry's strong objections, EPA's final hazardous waste pharmaceutical rule retains a proposed Obama-era definition that prescription pharmaceuticals sent from healthcare facilities to reverse distributors are regulated as solid waste, but the rule now excludes non-prescription medication sent to reverse logistics centers from the definition.
Members of EPA's overhauled Clean Air Scientific Advisory Committee (CASAC), dozens of former panelists, clean air advocates and even some major industry groups are warning that CASAC lacks the capacity to properly review the agency's federal particulate matter (PM) standards, hindering EPA's plan to finish the review by 2020.
A federal district court judge has upheld Washington state's denial of a Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401 water quality certification for the expansion of a coal export terminal, a case that Republican senators have cited to justify their efforts to limit states' ability to use the authority to block such projects.
Canadian mining company Teck Cominico Metals is signaling that it plans to petition the Supreme Court to review an appellate ruling requiring it pay cleanup response costs to Native American tribes in Washington state, marking the second time the company will ask the high court to weigh whether the Superfund law applies to trans-boundary releases.
Environmentalists are threatening EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers with a slew of lawsuit threats over the agencies' proposal to narrow the scope of the Clean Water Act (CWA), arguing that the plan to restrict the reach of the law to far fewer waters than an Obama-era CWA jurisdiction standard is unlawful.
EPA and state regulators have not adopted policies signaling a preference for such alternative technologies.
Chemical industry groups have submitted to EPA and its North Carolina counterpart a draft study intended to refute the findings of a controversial 2003 toxicology study that has driven conservative risk and remedial policies on trichloroethylene (TCE) as both agencies are poised to take important steps to address the ubiquitous solvent.
EPA is acknowledging that its new proposal to weaken greenhouse gas limits for new coal plants will have few real-world effects because no new domestic coal plants are planned, though environmentalists are strongly opposing the measure anyway in part because it could allow a dangerous precedent of setting lax Clean Air Act standards.
Exclusive news, hot documents, and timely updates on legislation and litigation over EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers' joint Clean Water Act (CWA) jurisdiction rule.
