In Split With Industry, Ash Reuse Company Backs 'Hybrid' EPA Waste Rule

摘要

A company that turns wet coal ash into solid blocks is breaking from the rest of the beneficial reuse industry by supporting EPA's bid for "hybrid" coal ash rules that would declare wet ash to be hazardous, which could complicate a concerted industry lobbying effort to have the White House overrule EPA and declare all ash non-hazardous.rnNanolmproved, Inc. - which uses a proprietary technology to process coal ash into "environmentally safe solid blocks" - met Jan. 27 with White House Office of Management & Budget (OMB) officials to back EPA's hybrid plan for first-time Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) coal ash rules. The hybrid approach would declare wet forms of the waste hazardous and dry forms of the waste that are beneficially reused in products as non-hazardous.