Legal Opinion
Sierra Club v. Environmental Protection Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 18, 2002No. 01-1057PublishedCited by 495 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Chief Judge GINSBURG.
GINSBURG, Chief Judge:
The Environmental Protection Agency promulgated a rule to establish the conditions under which it would consider certain wastewater treatment sludges “hazardous” within the meaning of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq. See Hazardous Waste Mgmt. Sys., 65 Fed. Reg. 67068 (Nov. 8, 2000) (Chlorinated Aliphatics Rule). The Sierra Club and the Environmental Technology Council challenge the rule as unreasonable and as inconsistent with the plain meaning of the RCRA. Because neither of the…
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