Key Appeals Court Vacates EPA Gasification, Comparable Fuels Rules

摘要

A key federal appellate court has vacated two EPA rules that excluded from strict federal waste law mandates fuel produced through gasification of hazardous waste and fuel produced from hazardous waste that the agency argued was comparable to common fossil fuels when burned.In a pair of June 27 rulings, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit found that the agency's regulatory exclusions violated the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) given Congress' clear mandate requiring the agency to regulate such hazardous waste-derived fuels.