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Niagara County official urges regional EPR for solar panels as installations grow
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Dawn Timm, Niagara County environmental coordinator, briefed Madison County lawmakers on her county’s solar-panel extended producer responsibility law — an approach she says prevents sites from becoming local waste liabilities and seeks manufacturer-funded recycling and decommissioning plans.
Dawn Timm, Niagara County’s environmental coordinator, told the Madison County Board of Supervisors on Dec. 12 that Niagara County adopted a local extended producer responsibility (EPR) law for solar panels and is pushing neighboring counties to consider similar rules.
“EPR for solar panels is one of the goals of New York State,” Timm said, describing the county’s law as a way to ensure manufacturers shoulder the costs of managing panels at end of life rather than local taxpayers. She said the law requires an approved plan within 30 days of equipment delivery that details financing, take-back procedures and performance targets, including a requirement that “at least 85% of the panels are going to be recycled, and 100% are going to be recovered.”
Timm said Niagara County’s ordinance, adopted in 2021, aims to prevent abandoned or insolvent projects…
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