Groups Seek To Force EPA To Comply With 2008 Waste Combustor Ruling

January 7, 2022
Environmentalists are urging a federal appellate court to force EPA to “review and revise” emissions limits for a host of harmful pollutants released by large municipal waste combustors (MWCs) more than a decade after the court remanded Bush-era air standards to the agency over environmental groups’ concerns that they are too weak. In a petition for a writ of mandamus filed Dec. 21 with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, environmental groups press for...


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