White House Advisers Prod Biden on EPA Incinerator Rules (1)

Environmental justice advisers are demanding that President Joe Biden step in to bring to an end nearly 15 years of waiting for updated pollution limits for big municipal incinerators.

Congress directed the Environmental Protection Agency to specifically regulate incinerator emissions and update them every five years when it amended the Clean Air Act in 1990. But communities of color and other marginalized communities have waited through eight years of the Obama administration, the Trump presidency, and 18 months of the Biden administration—and still don’t have updated air pollution rules from the Environmental Protection Agency.

The White House Environmental Justice Advisory ...