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Managing Solid Waste Challenges in the Energy Transition

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The transition to sustainable energy in the United States is reshaping how we create, store, and use energy – especially electricity – and the landscape is changing rapidly. This shift introduces new waste management...more

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EPA Releases Proposed Resource Conservation and Recovery Act PFAS Rules

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published on February 8, 2024 two proposed rules addressing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The rules, if...more

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Reconditioning/Used Drum Management: Utility Solid Waste Activities Groups Comments Addressing U.S. Environmental Protection...

The Utility Solid Waste Activities Group (“USWAG”) submitted November 22nd comments to the United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) addressing the following Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“ANPR”) titled: ...more

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Solvent-Contaminated Wipes Exclusion/RCRA Guidance: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Addresses Application of Recycling...

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”) issued a June 11th interpretive letter addressing the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”) solvent-contaminated wipes exclusions (“Exclusions”)found at 40...more

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U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Issues Decision on Definition of Solid Waste

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In American Petroleum Institute (“API”) v. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), the D.C. Circuit upheld, severed, and vacated portions of a 2015 EPA final rule, Definition of SolidWaste (the “Final Rule”). As explained...more

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Court Tosses RCRA Verified Recycler Exclusion but Retains Balance of Definition of Solid Waste Rule

On July 7, 2017, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit found “unreasonable,” and thus threw out, the “verified recycler” exclusion promulgated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in its 2015 revisions...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

D.C. Circuit Vacates Portions of EPA's Definition of Solid Waste Rule

On July 7, 2017, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit (the D.C. Circuit) vacated portions of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2015 rule on the Definition of Solid Waste (the...more

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EPA'S Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals Rules May Impose Significant Burdens on Health Care Facilities - Comment Period Runs Until...

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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has promulgated its proposed regulation of “hazardous waste pharmaceuticals,” i.e., pharmaceutical residues discarded from health care facilities which also meet EPA’s long-standing...more

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EPA Revisions to Definition of “Solid Waste” Change the Regulatory Landscape for Hazardous Recyclable Materials

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On December 10, 2014, the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA” or the “Agency”) signed a final rule revising the definition of “solid waste” for purposes of the federal hazardous waste regulatory...more

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