Bush EPA goes out in a blaze of regulations
In its final hours, the Bush Administration's Environmental Protection Agency issued a flurry of rules and proposals, many of which it was unable to issue by the deadlines mandated by Congress. While industry has had little time to react to the agency's actions, it seems clear that at least some of them reflect the desires of business. A hazardous waste final rule, for example, establishes areas in which a company may handle contaminated soils and cleanup wastes without requiring the expensive treatment standards that previously applied. The agency also proposed a reformulated gasoline rule that includes breaks for ethanol for which corn growers and ethanol makers have lobbied but which the petroleum industry has fought against. The proposal would allow ethanol to be used in 30% of the fuel in nine ozone nonattainment cities. The agency proposed a speedup of the phaseout of ozone-depleting chemicals, under which production of chlorofluorocarbons, carbon tetrachloride, and methyl chloroform would cease by the end of 1995, and halon production would end after this year. More controversially, EPA proposes to end manufactur of methyl bromide after 2000.
- OSTI ID:
- 6720276
- Journal Information:
- Chemical Week; (United States), Vol. 152:3; ISSN 0009-272X
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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