The EPA’s recent proposal to remove pyrolysis units from incinerators regulated under the Clean Air Act endangers public health, according to environmental groups that pummeled the idea during public meetings Monday.
The Environmental Protection Agency last month issued a deregulatory proposed rule aimed at streamlining certain incinerator regulations to help communities and states respond to wastes from natural disasters.
Included in the 17-page rule is a small section where the agency sought comment by May 4 on a possible revision to its decades-old policy of defining pyrolysis equipment as a type of “other solid waste incinerators” (OSWI) regulated by ...