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Saturday, December 13, 2008

Environment - "EPA Issues Exemptions for Hazardous Waste, Factory Farms"

From a story today in the Washington Post, by R. Jeffrey Smith:

The Environmental Protection Agency issued a new regulation yesterday exempting an estimated 118,500 tons of hazardous waste annually from strict federal incineration controls, and it separately exempted factory farms from a requirement to report hazardous air pollution to the federal government.

The two rules are among dozens of regulations being issued during the final weeks of the Bush administration after lengthy internal deliberations and public controversy.

Using the tracker mentioned in this ILB entry yesterday, this would appear to be the incineration rule, and this is the animal air pollution reporting rule change.

Posted by Marcia Oddi on December 13, 2008 11:02 AM
Posted to Environment