Oklahoma Lawmakers Warn EPA Tires Proposal Could Increase Waste

摘要

Oklahoma's congressional delegation is warning that EPA's pending proposal for regulating waste tires used as fuel could impose severe unintended consequences in the state, which recycles more than 50 percent of waste tires, by imposing restrictions on the ability to burn tires as fuel.rnThe state's five House members along with Sens. James Inhofe (R) and Tom Coburn (R) sent a Nov. 17 letter to EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson saying that the agency's advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) on how to define tires used as fuel under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) "would impose unnecessary restrictions on whole scrap tires for use as an alternative fuel source in cement kilns," and increase costs as industry looks for other fuel sources.