The Nation - News from May 8, 1985
The Environmental Protection Agency, trying again to avoid creating new hazardous waste dumps in cleaning up old ones, told its regional offices to burn, store or treat waste whenever possible instead shipping it to landfills. A new policy statement for the agency’s Superfund also tightened the rules on when landfills can be used. EPA official Gene Locero said that about half of the 58 federally licensed commercial landfills could lose the ability to accept waste transferred from Superfund cleanup sites.
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