The Biden administration proposed expanding the number of coal waste dumps that would be subject to environmental oversight, a decade after a string of toxic disasters from such landfills flooded valleys and polluted rivers in southern states.
The Environmental Protection Agency now wants to end exemptions that left scores of sites nationwide exempt from federal regulation. It would apply similar regulations that now cover only active dump sites to inactive dumps, which the agency says are more prone to leaks because they often lack protective lining and monitoring systems.The move would expand over sight to the vast majority of the sites nationwide, up from about half, according to estimates from the environmental firm Earthjustice.
Earthjustice said the proposal is a major step forward but doesn’t go far enough. To protect communities from the toxic waste, a new rule must extend federal regulation to all dump sites, the group said. The proposal would leave about 40 to 60 sites still exempted from federal regulation, according to Earthjustice estimates.
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