Environmentalists threaten suit over EPA chemical NSPS policy delay

Environmentalists are threatening EPA with a lawsuit over what they say is the agency’s “unreasonable delay” in issuing guidelines to implement a series of air performance standards for the synthetic organic chemical manufacturing industry (SOCMI), saying the agency is decades behind a Clean Air Act schedule for publishing the guides. In a Jan. 19 letter to EPA, groups including California Communities Against Toxics, Environmental Integrity Project, Louisiana Environmental Action Network, Ohio Valley Environmental Coalition, Sierra Club and Texas Environmental Justice...