Environmentalists oppose industry intervention in SOCMI suit

Environmentalists are urging a federal appeals court to reject industry effort to intervene on EPA’s behalf in their challenge to the agency’s Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturing Industry (SOCMI) air toxics rule, saying their late request should be denied because the issues the environmentalists raised should not have come as a surprise. The environmentalists’ Sept. 6 opposition in Concerned Citizens of St. John, et al. v. EPA, et al. in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia...