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Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials

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Timber and Paper Industry Petition EPA to Ease Restrictions on Burning Paper Residuals

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In December, 2021, representatives of the timber and paper industry petitioned the EPA to ease restrictions on the burning of railroad ties and paper residuals as fuel without triggering strict hazardous waste combustion...more

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Plastic Films/Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Addresses Request for Non-Waste Fuel...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in an April 5th letter addressed a request to determine whether certain plastic films that would be processed into a fuel (i.e., an engineered fuel product) is...more

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Discarded Carpet/Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Addresses Whether Material Constitutes a...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in a March 21st letter addressed a request to determine whether certain discarded carpet that a company plans to process into fuel would be considered a solid waste...more

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Fuel Product/Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials Rule: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Addresses Request for Non-Waste Fuel...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in an April 5th letter addressed a request from Fiberight, LLC (“Fiberight”) for a determination as to whether a fuel product (EcoRight) is a non-waste fuel product...more

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Important Changes to EPA's RCRA Program

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has made several recent changes that will affect compliance obligations under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). First, EPA finalized revisions to the definition of...more

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Treated Railroad Ties/Non-Hazardous Secondary Material Rule: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Final Rule

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) in a February 7th Federal Register notice issued a final rule amending the Non-Hazardous Secondary Material Rule (“NHSMR”) to add certain treated railroad ties...more

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Amendments to Virginia Hazardous Waste Regulations Offer Increased Flexibility

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One of the most vexing aspects of hazardous waste management hinges on a very basic question: whether something is in fact a regulated hazardous waste in the first place. This fundamental issue often arises for recycled or...more

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EPA’s New Non-Hazardous Secondary Materials Rule

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In its massive new industrial boiler rules (issued January 31, 2013), EPA singled out “manufacturers of motor vehicle parts and accessories” as one of the most affected industry types. On February 7, 2013, EPA issued a new...more

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Boiler Or Incinerator And Secondary Materials That Are Solid (Not Hazardous) Wastes

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It’s almost never easy to fathom federal environmental regulations and this held true when a set of regulations was recently issued by the U.S. EPA. On December 20, 2012, the Agency issued a series of rules, primarily under...more

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