Objectives of subchapter
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- 2025Tennessee Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Waste Connections of Tennessee M.D. Tenn.
- 2025Tennessee Riverkeeper, Inc. v. Tweden M.D. Tenn.
- 2024Electric Energy, Inc. v. EPA D.C. Cir.
- 2023Living Lands, LLC v. Cline S.D.W. Va
- 2020West Virginia State University Board of Governors v. The Dow Chemical Company S.D.W. Va
- 2020DEQ v. Gibson Idaho
- 2019Waterkeeper Alliance, Inc. v. Wheeler D.D.C.
- 2018Seattle Times Co. v. Leathercare, Inc. W.D. Wash.
- 2017AES Puerto Rico, L.P. v. Trujillo-Panisse 1st Cir.
- 2017Wasco LLC v. N.C. Dep't of Env't & Natural Res. N.C. App. Ct.
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The objectives of this subchapter are to assist in developing and encouraging methods for the disposal of solid waste which are environmentally sound and which maximize the utilization of valuable resources including energy and materials which are recoverable from solid waste and to encourage resource conservation. Such objectives are to be accomplished through Federal technical and financial assistance to States or regional authorities for comprehensive planning pursuant to Federal guidelines designed to foster cooperation among Federal, State, and local governments and private industry. In developing such comprehensive plans, it is the intention of this chapter that in determining the size of the waste-to-energy facility, adequate provision shall be given to the present and reasonably anticipated future needs, including those needs created by thorough implementation of section 6962(h) of this title, of the recycling and resource recovery interest within the area encompassed by the planning process. (Source: (Pub. L. 89–272, title II, § 4001, as added Pub. L. 94–580, § 2, Oct. 21, 1976, 90 Stat. 2813; amended Pub. L. 96–482, § 32(b), Oct. 21, 1980, 94 Stat. 2353; Pub. L. 98–616, title III, § 301(a), title V, § 501(f)(1), Nov. 8, 1984, 98 Stat. 3267, 3276.))