APPELLATE RULING BOLSTERS ENVIRONMENTALISTS IN RCRA CITIZEN SUITS

A recent federal appellate court decision in a Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) citizen suit will have widespread effects, environmentalists say, bolstering activists' claims under RCRA citizen suit provisions to prompt more thorough cleanups at toxic sites and limiting industry's defense against such suits. The ruling will likely lead to greater use of the provisions to challenge EPA cleanup decisions, activists say. In a Dec. 22, 2006, ruling, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 1st Circuit upheld a...