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Minnesota Packaging EPR Rulemaking — Comments Due This Week
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency (MPCA) is beginning the rulemaking process to implement the state’s Packaging Waste and Cost Reduction Act (PWCRA) — Minnesota’s extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for packaging and paper products. Stakeholders have only a few days left to weigh in. Rather than releasing draft rule text, MPCA has issued an early…
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Microplastics – EPA waiting on sampling but may create an opportunity for entrepreneurs
On July 1, EPA issued the latest proposal, in a 5 year cycle, for the sixth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR 6), which is part of the Safe Drinking Water Act that requires EPA to mandate drinking water systems sample for contaminants. Congress established a multi-step, risk-based approach: contaminants first appear on EPA’s Contaminant Candidate…