Activists Seek Legal Deadline For Broad EPA Review Of Ash Regulations

摘要

Environmentalists are urging a federal district court to set a hard legal deadline forcing EPA within six months to undertake a broad review of its regulations on coal combustion residuals (CCR) disposal, including whether to regulate CCR as hazardous waste and to review possible changes to its toxicity testing process for analyzing coal ash. Coal ash recyclers that use the waste in products such as cement are seeking a shorter three-month deadline, though their request is narrower as they only ask for EPA to decide on how it will proceed with coal ash rules.