As EPA Rejects Rules, New Talks Eye Voluntary Path To Cut POTWs' Nutrients

摘要

State regulators, environmentalists and water researchers are in talks for a "new path" to reduce nutrient discharges from wastewater treatment plants via voluntary, non-regulatory methods, such as wider use of biosolids, just weeks after EPA rejected a petition from other advocates pressing the agency to craft new rules to curb the plants' nutrient releases.