EPA will weigh fenceline monitors for battery plants

EPA will rethink its decision to deny environmentalists’ calls to require fenceline air monitoring for lead-acid battery manufacturing plants in a limited reconsideration of its February 2023 air toxics rule for the sector, after a federal appeals court granted the agency’s request for a voluntary remand to address their novel argument for such monitors. In a brief April 19 order , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit granted EPA’s Feb. 16 motion for a narrow...