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Exception to USEPA Cleanup Standards Not Allowed
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1992.tb07315.x
Subject(s) - petitioner , waste management , agency (philosophy) , groundwater , environmental science , environmental planning , engineering , law , political science , supreme court , geotechnical engineering , philosophy , epistemology
The American Petroleum Institute (API), one of several petitioners, challenged regulations issued by the US Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) that established groundwater monitoring and cleanup standards for any waste disposal site above an aquifer, even one contaminated to the point of uselessness. The US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia upheld the regulations.