Environmentalists are renewing their past calls for EPA to at least retain its proposed fugitive dust emissions standard when the agency promulgates a final Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) rule governing coal ash disposal later this year, issuing a report that highlights the need for the federal standard to drive state controls. "Despite the threat, no federal requirements exist to control fugitive toxic dust," Earthjustice said in a July 31 press release unveiling the report, "Ash in Lungs: How Breathing Coal Ash is Hazardous to Your Health."
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