Legal Opinion
California Communities Against Toxics v. Envtl. Prot. Agency
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided July 2, 2019No. 18-1163PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Rogers, Circuit Judge:
In 1976, Congress enacted the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976 ("RCRA"), as amended, 42 U.S.C. §§ 6901 - 6992k, to address the environmental and health risks associated with hazardous solid waste. Subtitle C of RCRA required the Environmental Protection Agency to issue regulations governing the storage, treatment, and disposal of "solid waste," which was defined as "discarded" material, 42 U.S.C. § 6903 (27). Among RCRA's stated objectives was "minimizing the generation of hazardous waste ... by encouraging process substitution, materials recovery, properly…
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