At the winter meeting of the Association of State and Territorial Solid Waste Management Officials (ASTSWMO), EPA on October 29, 2014, issued a report on the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) program that appears intended to serve as both a defense of the RCRA program and an argument for its continued relevancy. Entitled RCRA’s Critical Mission & The Path Forward, the report details the accomplishments of the RCRA program, identifies existing challenges, and lays out a path forward for the program. The report serves as a “messaging document” to tout the successes of the RCRA program and the necessity for its continued evolution. According to the report, this new evolution is taking the form of Sustainable Materials Management (SSM). In the report, EPA states that it and state hazardous waste agencies are expanding the “resource conservation aspect of the RCRA program” towards SSM. The report describes SSM as “an approach that considers the entire lifecycle of materials and casts a far broader net than traditional waste and chemicals management approaches.” EPA claims that “SSM can transform production processes, minimizing the amount of materials involved and the associated environmental impacts.” EPA acknowledges in the report that its current RCRA regulatory structure is ill-suited to address SSM, but it pledges to integrate its separate environmental programs to address systematically material movement through the environment. The report is available online.