Clean Air
EPA Spurns Trump-Era Effort to Drop Clean-Air Protections For Plastic Waste Recycling
Reversing its own Trump-era proposal, the Environmental Protection Agency has spurned a lobbying effort by the chemical industry to relax clean-air regulations on two types of chemical or “advanced” recycling of plastics. The decision, announced by the EPA on May 24, covers pyrolysis and gasification, two processes that use chemical methods to break down plastic […]
Read MoreCongress Urges EPA to Maintain Clean-Air Regulations on Chemical Recycling of Plastics
In a report tied to the massive $1.7 trillion federal budget bill signed last week by President Joe Biden, Congress has signaled to the Environmental Protection Agency that it should not loosen regulations around the chemical recycling of plastic waste. The advice from lawmakers was included in wording in a House Appropriations Committee report on […]
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