Environmentalists ask court to rehear waste rule challenge

Environmentalists are asking a federal appeals court panel to reconsider its unanimous ruling rejecting their challenge to an EPA regulation that exempts third-party recyclers of hazardous secondary materials from strict waste rule requirements. Environmental groups, represented by the environmentalist law firm Earthjustice, filed an Aug. 16 petition asking a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to rehear its July 2 ruling dismissing their argument that the exclusion is unlawful because generators are...