Democrats Renew Calls For Strict EPA Scrutiny Of Chemical Recycling

Democratic lawmakers are renewing calls for EPA to expand its efforts to address the plastic production crisis by strictly regulating chemical recycling technologies, citing it as a “misguided” solution, but a recent Energy Department (DOE) report calls for advancing such efforts and investing in further research and development for the technology. In a Feb. 9 letter to EPA Administrator Michael Regan, a coalition of 47 Democratic lawmakers led by Rep. Jared Huffman (D-CA) and Sens. Cory Booker (D-NJ) and Jeff...