Agencies Skewer EPA's Original Plan For Hazardous Waste Coal Ash Rule

摘要

EPA faced harsh criticism from other federal agencies for its original draft proposal to regulate coal ash and other coal combustion residues (CCR) as hazardous under federal waste law, according to a compendium of comments posted in EPA's regulatory docket for the new proposal, which EPA ultimately altered to seek comment on both a less stringent non-hazardous option as well as a hazardous classification for coal waste.