EPA, Industry, Environmentalists Back Industry Standing In Waste Rule Case

摘要

EPA, industry petitioners and environmental intervenors are all backing industry's legal standing to challenge the tightened recycler exclusion in the Obama EPA's definition of solid waste (DSW) rule, responding to a federal appeals court order questioning industry's standing. The parties filed supplemental briefs April 6 in American Petroleum Institute (API), et al. v. EPA, all agreeing that the industry petitioners have standing to challenge the rule's verified recycler exclusion in the rule, despite never having made use of a less stringent exclusion considered more favorable to industry under a 2008 rule promulgated by then-President George W. Bush's EPA.