Landfill Operators Sue EPA Over Revised Air Emission Estimation Factors

Waste and recycling companies are suing EPA over a recent update to its “emission factors” used to estimate emissions from municipal solid waste landfills for regulatory purposes, after warning in earlier comments on a draft version that EPA’s factors are unclear, inaccurate or inflexible in their approach. EPA Aug. 15 updated its “AP-42” list of emission factors with respect to landfills. In a lawsuit filed Oct. 14 in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, the...