D.C. Circuit denies industry intervention in SOCMI suit

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit is denying industry’s request to intervene on EPA’s behalf to defend its Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (SOCMI) and Group I and II Polymers and Resins air toxics rule from environmentalists’ claims that it is too weak. The court in an Oct. 4 order in consolidated litigation known as Denka Performance Elastomer LLC (DPE) v. EPA denied a petition from several chemical sector groups to intervene in the...