Final opening brief for the case involving EPA incentivizing industrial waste burning with little or no safeguards.

Groups sue to stop EPA from exempting numerous forms of industrial waste burning from strict air pollution standards.

Groups sue to stop EPA from exempting numerous forms of industrial waste burning from strict air pollution standards.

Groups say loophole allows for burning of toxin-filled substances with little regulation

Power plants, chemical factories, oil refineries and similar dirty industries generate huge amounts of dangerous garbage: used chemical solvents, waste oil and a wide variety of other industrial sludge. It costs money to legally dispose of such nasty substances—dirty industries have it, but they don’t want to spend it. As an alternative to legal disposal,…

Groups sue U.S. EPA to close loophole, protect public health and the environment

Not all burning is bad. For example, campfires rule—when they are done sensitively. I don’t mean with tenderness, but rather with attention paid to the ecosystem and the importance of the fallen wood within it. Those fires bring light, heat and comfort to our small corners of the wild. But in other corners of the…