American Mining Congress v. EPA
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit
824 F.2d 1177 (1987)
Relevant factsFree
The EPA (defendant) amended its RCRA regulations to include as "solid waste" certain manufacturing and mining by-products that are sometimes discarded but often recycled or reused in ongoing production; mining and refining trade groups (plaintiffs) challenged this expanded definition as exceeding the EPA's statutory authority, which is limited to regulating "discarded material."
IssueFree
Whether, under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, the term "solid waste" includes materials which can be reused.
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