EPA Weighs Easing Waste Rules For Bioreactor Landfills But Eyes Methane

EPA is considering easing limits on municipal solid waste landfills to allow for the addition of liquids to so-called wet and bioreactor landfills as a way of speeding waste degradation, but the agency is grappling with how to deal with increases in the emissions rate of methane, the potent greenhouse gas, and other landfill gases that would also result. In a recent advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM) on revising Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) subtitle D part 258...