California city likely to seek rehearing in broad RCRA ruling

A California city is expected to ask a federal appellate court to rehear a case in which a divided panel ruled that a public water supplier can be held liable as a “transporter” of solid waste under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) even if it did not play a role in discarding the waste and inadvertently took it up through its supply system. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on Oct. 12 granted an unopposed...