EPA Commits To Developing Pharmaceutical Waste Rule Under RCRA

The Environmental Protection Agency has laid out plans to develop a rule that would ensure safe disposal of hazardous waste pharmaceuticals (HWP) under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), in lieu of adding the provisions to its universal waste rule as previously proposed, following concerns raised by the agency's Office of Inspector General (IG) earlier this year that EPA has fallen short on its responsibility to regulate the waste. In an Aug. 8 letter to the IG, Mathy Stanislaus, head of the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER), writes that the agency has decide