Group Tells 9th Circuit Hexavalent Chromium In Drinking Water Is Solid Waste

Mealey's (December 1, 2020, 2:18 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — An environmental group asked the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an opening brief filed Nov. 27 to reverse a federal judge in California’s ruling that hexavalent chromium that is generated as part of a city’s pumping and distribution of drinking water that remains in the city’s drinking water wells is not a solid waste under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), arguing that the transporter of the chemical does not have to transport the chemical twice for the chemical to retain its identity as a solid waste under the statute....