Legal Opinion
Edison Electric Institute v. United States Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided August 24, 1993No. 89-1320, 89-1321, 90-1320, 90-1322, 90-1323, and 90-1324PublishedCited by 41 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion PER CURIAM.
2Per curiam
This consolidated appeal presents numerous petitions for review of EPA’s Toxicity Characteristic (“TC”) rule, promulgated pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976. The TC seeks to identify waste which, if mismanaged, may release hazardous amounts of toxic materials into the environment. In order to accomplish this goal, the TC includes a toxicity test designed to simulate the actual leaching of wastes that might occur in a municipal solid waste landfill. The petitioners challenge several aspects of this test.
We hold that EPA has failed to explain…
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