D.C. Circuit stays sterilizers case but rejects EPA remand request

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has granted EPA’s request to pause litigation over the agency’s Biden-era rule tightening ethylene oxide (EtO) limits for commercial sterilizers, scrapping oral argument that had been set for this month, but denied the agency’s request for voluntary remand of the rule. In an April 1 order , a panel of Judges Florence Pan and Bradley Garcia, both Biden appointees, and Justin Walker, a Trump appointee, without explanation grant EPA’s...