Environmentalists and industry groups are waging competing attacks on EPA's plan to rework provisions in its coal ash rule governing disposal of the waste, complicating the agency's path forward as it wrestles with industry's claim that the proposal will hurt ash ruse and environmentalists' claim the plan will harm the environment. "It's like we're reading two entirely different rules," John Ward, a spokesman for the American Coal Ash Association (ACAA) that represents the ash reuse sector, said about the competing claims, in remarks to Inside EPA on the sidelines of an Oct. 2 public hearing on EPA's proposal in Arlington, VA. During the hearing, Ward and ACAA Executive Director Tom Adams warned that if EPA finalizes the version of the rule that it proposed on July 30, it will require almost all reuse operations to meet the same technical and location requirements as ash disposal sites, making the process prohibitively expensive.
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