EPA to Assess Environmental Justice Effect Of Final RCRA Rule Redefining Solid Waste

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The Environmental Protection Agency will thoroughly examine concerns that the "definition of solid waste rule" promulgated in October 2008 could have an adverse effect on minority communities, Mathy Stanislaus, the agency's new assistant administrator for solid waste, said July 21.rnSpeaking at a meeting of the National Environmental Justice Advisory Council, of which he is a former member, Stanislaus addressed concerns raised at a public meeting in June that EPA had not properly considered the risk to poor people and minorities when it issued the final rule.