Sierra Club v. Environmental Protection Agency

ELR Citation: 44 ELR 20142
No(s). 08-1145, 12-1295 (D.C. Cir. Jun 27, 2014)

The D.C. Circuit vacated EPA's gasification exclusion rule, which exempts from RCRA certain hazardous residuals left over from the petroleum refining process. Under the exclusion, oil-bearing hazardous secondary materials that are otherwise hazardous wastes under RCRA §3001 are exempted from RCRA r...