EPA Seeks To Drop Trump-Era Pyrolysis Plan As It Grapples With New Rules

EPA is proposing to withdraw a Trump-era plan that would weaken air regulation of pyrolysis and gasification, two controversial combustion processes, by removing references to those units from the definition of municipal waste combustors in order to ensure the units remain regulated while the agency weighs future policies. While the action responds to months-old calls from environmentalists and Democratic lawmakers to withdraw the Trump administration’s proposed approach, the agency does not say how it plans to regulate such units in...