The EPA’s new leadership continues to defend last year’s rule that banned most uses of methylene chloride, marking a step towards a ruling on amendments Congress made in 2016 to the nation’s primary commercial chemicals law.
The brief, filed on Wednesday, echoed positions the Environmental Protection Agency took in December, during President Joe Biden’s administration, when the agency told the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit the regulation complied with the 2016 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) amendments and properly reduced the solvent’s unreasonable risks.
An industry coalition and the Sierra Club challenged the rule as ...
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