EPA Defends Pollutant-By-Pollutant MACT Policy In Key Appeals Court

摘要

EPA is defending its controversial method of calculating maximum achievable control technology (MACT) limits for air toxics based on the performance achieved by individual emission sources for each pollutant covered by the standard, arguing that it has long relied on the policy and therefore it is no longer judicially renewable.rnThe agency makes this argument, in addition to defending the policy in substance, in response to a lawsuit, Medical Waste Institute v. EPA, challenging its proposal to tighten air toxics limits for hospital, medical and waste incinerators, a case widely seen as a test for the agency's new, stricter approach to setting MACTs.