Last week a website called ashsunstein.com debuted to put pressure on the Obama administration to release information regarding the regulation of coal ash, a by-product of coal-fired power generation that in 2008 spilled out into the Emory River in one of the largest environmental disasters in U.S. history.
The site is aimed specifically at Cass Sunstein, the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, aka Obama's regulatory czar, who received a notice from the Environmental Protection Agency on its proposed rules for regulating ash back in mid-October. Sunstein's office has yet to release that information to the public so it's not known what the EPA plans to do, but in the interim Sunstein's office has held numerous meetings with coal and ash industry representatives--19 according to OMB Watch's count.
The EPA had committed to proposing new rules for coal ash by the end of last year. We're now approaching three months past that deadline and more than 14 months since the Kingston spill and still don't know whether ash will be regulated as a hazardous material by the federal government, left to state control as it is now, or placed somewhere in between.
Next week we'll explore in a Citybeat the way the stalled regulations are affecting at least one proposed landfill in Scott County.
The site is aimed specifically at Cass Sunstein, the head of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, aka Obama's regulatory czar, who received a notice from the Environmental Protection Agency on its proposed rules for regulating ash back in mid-October. Sunstein's office has yet to release that information to the public so it's not known what the EPA plans to do, but in the interim Sunstein's office has held numerous meetings with coal and ash industry representatives--19 according to OMB Watch's count.
The EPA had committed to proposing new rules for coal ash by the end of last year. We're now approaching three months past that deadline and more than 14 months since the Kingston spill and still don't know whether ash will be regulated as a hazardous material by the federal government, left to state control as it is now, or placed somewhere in between.
Next week we'll explore in a Citybeat the way the stalled regulations are affecting at least one proposed landfill in Scott County.
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