Legal Opinion
American Iron and Steel Institute v. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, American Petroleum Institute, Edison Electric Institute, Intervenors
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided September 22, 1989No. 88-1155, 88-1156, 88-1158, 88-1165, 88-1168 and 88-1169PublishedCited by 71 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (“RCRA”), Pub.L. No. 94-580, 90 Stat. 2795 (1976), created in its Subtitle C a system for control over the treatment, storage and disposal of hazardous wastes. RCRA §§ 3001-13, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6921-34 (1982) (current version at 42 U.S.C. §§ 6921-39a (1982 & Supp. IY 1986); see also RCRA § 1004(5), 42 U.S.C. § 6903(5) (1982) (defining “hazardous waste”). While invariably described as a “cradle-to-grave” system, it in fact reaches (as we shall see) well beyond the…
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3Cited by71 opinions
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