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Implementing Climate Resilience in Hazardous Waste Permitting

On June 5, 2024, EPA issued a final memorandum that provides guidance to EPA Regions, states, and territories on when and how to consider potential adverse climate change impacts in the hazardous waste permitting process under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. This guidance includes recommendations for conducting climate change vulnerability screenings and assessments for treatment, storage, and disposal facilities to determine whether there are climate vulnerabilities that hazardous waste permits should address. The memo’s recommendations ensure that controls provide long-term effectiveness through resilience to adverse climate change impacts into the future. Read the memorandum.

EPA welcomed public comment on the memorandum from December 12, 2023, through January 26, 2024.