Posted on 09/21/2011 6:56:12 AM PDT by Titus-Maximus
Industry criticism is growing against the Obama administration's proposed revisions to EPA's Bush-era definition of solid waste (DSW) as chemical manufacturing and scrap recycling industries becoming the latest to complain that the revised rule would be too costly. The Obama EPA proposed July 6 to amend the Bush-era DSW rule, which relaxed certain waste management requirements on industry in the interest of promoting recycling. The new proposal, which follows a lawsuit from environmentalists and complaints from state regulators that the Bush-era rule is too lax, would tighten many of the requirements. Industry groups, including the National Mining Association (NMA) and American Petroleum Institute (API), and now the Society of Chemical Manufacturers & Affiliates (SOCMA) and the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries (ISRI) expressed shock that EPA would no longer exclude so-called 'tolling" where a reclaimer or processor operates on the site of the waste generator. EPA had previously agreed that tolling arrangements ensure that there is no discard since the hazardous secondary materials remain under the control of the generator. If EPA removes the exclusion, contractors conducting reclamation may need to obtain storage permits under Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA) rules.
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Get the EPA to stop, defund, and bring them down to a manageable level. It is a Leviathan that is out of control and their bureaucrats sit around engineering new ways to stay alive, get more power and more money. (They shut down a race track because of horse manure - that means the EPA has too much time on its hands. Lay them off!
We are paying for this nonsense?
Which are costly and take many years to get, if at all.
Obama just doesn’t get it.
If it helps destroy America, he does it.
As for the problems with solid waste, why not just bury EPA HQ in DC underneath it during business hours. Two birds, one stone, yada yada yada.
Don’t continue to make the mistake that Obama’s goals are as he states, and especially not the same goals that any real American would have.
He does “get it” - he knows that these policies are destructive to capitalism, and that’s exactly why he pursues them.
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