PROPERTY CONCERNS DELAY EPA CONSTRUCTION DEBRIS PLANS IN GULF

Local opposition and Louisiana private property laws are keeping EPA officials from conducting first-time tests for burning construction debris from last year's hurricanes in mobile incinerators -- testing agency officials say could help in developing a new policy for using the technology expected later this year. Officials from the agency's solid waste and research and development offices say the tests would have helped provide EPA with data on whether the incinerators -- known as air curtain destructors (ACD) -- are...