SEATTLE (Waste Advantage): The EPA is announcing a rule to amend standards for facilities that use open burning and open detonation (OB/OD) to treat waste explosives such as munitions, fireworks, flares or airbag propellants. If finalized, the rule would strength...
Officials with EPA's waste office say the agency needs "more time" to craft strict new rules for open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) hazardous waste incineration to identify and evaluate alternative technologies, intensifying environmentalists' threats to sue the agency to force a ban on the ...
EPA has quietly published a compendium of alternatives to open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) technologies for addressing spent munitions and other explosives even as it delays release of a proposed Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) rule that is expected to bar its use in some cases...
EPA has released a long-delayed proposal to set new requirements for facilities’ open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of waste munitions and other hazardous waste, including a first-time administrative process and timelines for identifying “alternative treatment technologies,” though the agency is ...
Aug 17, 2022 Reading time: about 2 minutes #business news #circular economy US Supreme Courts restricts EPA's regulatory powers The court ruled that Congress, not the EPA, has the authority to create a system of cap-and-trade regulations to limit emissions from power... ...
The EPA said Thursday it was considering other steps besides a federal drinking water limit, such as setting standards at open burning and detonation sites of waste explosives, where severe perchlorate contamination is known to exist. But environmental advocates said such meas...
EPA’s proposed rule for open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of waste munitions is facing competing attacks from other federal entities, with the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) pushing for more detailed requirements while a lab under the Energy Department’s (DOE) National...