Advocates, Industry Raise Competing Defenses Of EPA's Incinerator Air Rule

摘要

Environmentalists and industry groups are raising competing defenses of EPA's emissions rule for commercial and industrial solid waste incinerators (CISWI), filing new legal briefs that aim to undermine each others' arguments about alleged flaws in the rule - one of several combustion rules currently being litigated in a federal appeals court. The CISWI rule is part of a package of regulations that also includes maximum achievable control technology (MACT) air toxics rules for large "major source" and smaller "area source" boilers, and a rule defining which materials are classed as "fuel" eligible for use in boilers and which are "waste" that must be incinerated. All are being litigated in parallel proceedings ongoing in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.