Sentences with phrase «ash as hazardous waste»
Industry groups protested, saying that if the EPA began defining coal ash as hazardous waste, that decision could backfire — choking off a trade that recycles the material into concrete, and creating even more unwanted ash.
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Today the AP writes: «While the spill of ash from burned coal contains arsenic and potentially carcinogenic heavy metals, it is not regulated as hazardous waste.
Designation as hazardous material would make coal ash waste — and its storage — subject to more stringent federal regulation.
The Bill already includes an 18 % reduction in the budget of the EPA but the additional measures include a rider preventing the EPA from issuing any regulation on greenhouse gases for the next year, a rider stopping the EPA from bringing in proposed fuel - efficiency standards for all automobiles (which were approved by manufacturers) a refusal to label toxic ash spill left from coal combustion as hazardous waste, a rider preventing uranium mining in the Grand Canyon and a prevention on stopping limits on mercury usage.
• A rider that would prevent the EPA from labeling the toxic ash left over from coal combustion as hazardous waste — something that would no doubt alarm the people of Kingston, Tenn., buried by a coal - ash spill in 2008.