EPA Faces Increasing Industry Criticism Over Waste Definition Proposal

摘要

Industry criticism against the Obama administration's proposed revisions to EPA's Bush-era definition of solid waste (DSW) rule is growing, with the small-batch chemical manufacturing and scrap recycling industries becoming the latest groups to charge that the proposed changes would have costly impacts on their businesses. The Obama EPA proposed July 6 to amend the Bush-era DSW rule, which relaxed certain waste management requirements on industry in the interest of promoting recycling. The new proposal, which follows a lawsuit from environmentalists and complaints from state regulators that the Bush-era rule is too lax, would tighten many of the requirements.