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Senate Rules Committee advances Katie Butler to full Senate after DTSC hearing on Exide, hazardous waste and lithium
Summary
The Senate Rules Committee voted to forward Katie Butler’s nomination as director of the Department of Toxic Substances Control to the full Senate after questioning about Exide cleanup progress, hazardous waste facility capacity and plans for end‑of‑life lithium management.
Katie Butler, nominated to lead the Department of Toxic Substances Control, won committee approval to move her confirmation to the full Senate after a Rules Committee hearing on April 30.
Butler told the committee she supports continuing reforms at DTSC and described the agency’s cleanup work at the former Exide battery plant and related neighborhood sites. "We are on track to complete 5,900 residential cleanups by the end of this year," Butler said, and she told senators the Exide program achieved about $10,000,000 in cost savings this year that allowed more properties to be cleaned.
The discussion focused on three practical issues: the state’s limited number of permitted hazardous‑waste facilities, DTSC’s modernization of hazardous waste management, and planning for disposal and recycling of lithium‑ion batteries. Senator Grove noted California has only “two hazardous waste facilities” that accept many waste types and asked what the state’s backup would be if…
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