Critics of EPA’s RMP rollback detail legal arguments

Environmental groups and the country’s largest industrial union are urging a federal court to consider whether EPA violated a series of Clean Air Act (CAA) provisions when it denied their petitions to reconsider its rule reversing Obama-era Risk Management Program (RMP) chemical disaster safety mandates for industrial facilities. The groups are also urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to consolidate their new suit with their ongoing challenge of the rollback rule itself, which reversed...