Judges To Hear Advocates' Bid For EPA TSCA Regulation Of Lead Bullets

Appellate judges will hear oral arguments later this week in environmentalists' suit aiming to force EPA to issue Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) regulation of lead bullets, with advocates arguing new data on lead's risks to wildlife justify the rule even as the agency reiterates its claim that it lacks authority to craft the regulation. The case, Trumpeter Swan Society, et al. v. EPA , is an appeal of U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia Judge Emmet Sullivan's...