EPA, EIP Reach ‘Agreement’ To Update Landfill Emissions Estimates

EPA and the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP) have reached an “agreement in principle” to resolve the group’s suit seeking to force a deadline for the agency to update decades-old methods for estimating key landfill emissions, after the agency never finalized a 2008 plan to strengthen the methods. Facing a looming Jan. 20 deadline to respond to the group’s suit, EIP, et al. v. Regan , the agency asked the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in a Jan...