GROUPS CITE 'UNREASONABLE DELAY' RULING TO SPEED EPA AIR TOXICS RULES

Environmentalists are citing a recent federal appeals court's unusually detailed ruling defining when an agency's timetable for action is unreasonable to urge the court to take a particularly strong step to make EPA promptly set new air toxics standards for cement kilns required by a 2000 court order. The environmentalists say the new ruling also provides them ammunition to speed EPA's compliance with several other court orders -- some handed down as recently as last June -- on pending air...