EPA Proposes Sweeping New Air Toxics Rules

EPA is proposing four air toxics rules that would impact industrial facilities nationwide, attorneys say. The rules include a maximum achievable control technology (MACT) standard for industrial boilers and process heaters; similar regulations for smaller, “area” sources of air toxics; a rule for incinerators burning solid waste; and a rule for the definition of that solid waste using Resource Conservation and Recovery Act-related requirements of the Clean Air Act. The rules have generated a mixed response from the Natural Resources Defense Council...

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