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A group of waste industry trade associations and waste management and recycling companies is challenging the EPA’s recently finalized Clean Air Act rule that revises Emission Guidelines for existing municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills. The National Waste & Recycling Association is among those that petitioned the United States Court of Appeals for the District of

California is taking action to mitigate the climate change impacts of “super pollutants” – compounds such as methane, black carbon and HFC gasses that have a short lived but significant warming effect on the planet. Among the objectives of the new law concerning short-lived climate pollutants is a 40 percent reduction in the state’s methane

A federal district court for the Central District of Illinois issued an opinion interpreting the scope of the maintenance exemption to the Clean Water Act’s (CWA) prohibition of the discharge of dredge and fill material into waters of the United States. The case, Quad Cities Waterkeeper Inc. v. Ballegeer, Case No. 4:12-cv-4075, raised the