Comment: Emerging EPA Regulation of Pharmaceuticals in the Environment

abstract

• The May 25, 2012, report entitled EPA Inaction in Identifying Hazardous Waste Pharmaceuticals May Result in Unsafe Disposal disapproved of EPAs lack of progress in determining whether certain pharmaceuticals found in surface, ground, and drinking water qualify as hazardous waste, as well as in establishing an evaluation and regulatory process for pharmaceutical wastes. As a result of the report, EPA is now considering mechanisms for assessing and regulating the presence of certain pharmaceutical products in the environment as hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act.

authors

• Eckstein, Gabriel

published proceedings

• Environmental Law Reporter: news and analysis

author list (cited authors)

• Eckstein, G.

complete list of authors

• Eckstein, Gabriel

publication date

• December 2012

publisher

• Environmental Law Institute Publications  Publisher

published in

• Environmental Law Reporter: news and analysis  Journal

keywords

• Hazardous Waste
• Health
• Law
• Natural Resources Law
• Pharmaceutical
• Ppcp
• Water Law
• Water Quality

URI

• https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/613

start page

• 11105

end page

• 11108

volume

• 42

URL

• https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/613/