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December 05, 2007

Hazaedous Waste Incineration

HAZARDOUS WASTE AS FUEL: House lawmakers are asking EPA to take a closer look at its hazardous waste deregulation pWasteawayroposal,  which the chemical industry sought. The plan, released in June, would allow companies to burn hazardous waste as fuel in industrial boilers that provide heat or power. This substitution only would be allowed if such burning would generate air pollution that is comparable to emissions produced by combustion of fuel oil in the boiler. Much of the material the proposal would affect now goes to hazardous waste incinerators, which are more stringently regulated than industrial boilers. In a letter sent last week, 25 members of the House of Representatives asked EPA Administrator Stephen L. Johnson to assess the proposal's environmental impact at each of 86 industrial facilities expected to benefit from the regulatory rollback. They also faulted EPA's proposal for not including the names and locations of those facilities and how much waste they are expected to burn if the rule becomes final. ":The communities that would see increases in toxic pollutants were not notified until after the EPA comment period ended,": says Representative Mark S. Kirk (R-IL), who signed the letter. This timing, says Representative Hilda Solis (D-CA), another signatory, means ":EPA knowingly denied communities the chance to comment.": EPA data, obtained by the environmental group Earthjustice under the Freedom of Information Act, show that DuPont could benefit the most from the proposed deregulation. Each year, DuPont could burn in industrial boilers an estimated 7,191 tons of material now classified as hazardous waste. Two-thirds of this tonnage would come from DuPont's La Porte, Texas, facility. Chemical & Engineering News, 12/03/07, p. 13.

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