ACTIVISTS EYE LAWSUIT AS EPA EXEMPTS SOURCES FROM INCINERATION MACT

Environmentalists are likely to file a lawsuit challenging an EPA final rule that defines industrial incinerators subject to air toxics standards, because it includes language that exempts potentially thousands of facilities from compliance, activist sources say. EPA and some industry sources counter that the exemptions are likely to affect only a handful of incinerator units that are not emitting significant amounts of air toxics, and the units are necessary for useful energy recovery purposes. EPA in a Sept. 22 Federal...