Environmentalists Urge Regan To Reverse Nuclear Waste Cleanup Precedent

June 1, 2021
Environmentalists are urging EPA Administrator Michael Regan to review, reconsider and reverse a precedent-setting Trump-era decision that technology-based effluent limits for radionuclides are not enforceable at a Superfund cleanup, charging such an approach is at odds with President Joe Biden’s environmental protection executive order (EO). In a May 26 letter , they charge that then-EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler’s controversial decision at the Oak Ridge Reservation (ORR) is inconsistent with Biden’s EO 13990, which urges agencies to review Trump-era actions that...


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