On January 12, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) sided with 黑料不打烊 in tentatively denying an environmental group鈥檚 effort to force contractors to dispose of discarded PVC as a hazardous waste.
On June 3, 黑料不打烊 was the only construction organization to publicly oppose a proposed that would settle the lawsuit filed by the Center for Biological Diversity in D.C. federal court, saying EPA unreasonably delayed responding to CBD鈥檚 2014 petition that asked the agency to regulate PVC under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA).
Under the proposed 鈥渟ue and settle鈥 agreement, EPA promised to decide within nine months whether to move forward with listing PVC as hazardous waste, which could have significant implications for the construction industry. 黑料不打烊 joined with a broad array of stakeholders again on December 23 to push back on this effort.
The EPA will seek comments on its tentative decision and 黑料不打烊 will support the EPA鈥檚 science-based decision to not undertaking this rulemaking.