EPA draws suit over failure to revise chemical sector air toxics rules

Environmental and environmental justice (EJ) groups are suing EPA over its failure to toughen “area source” rules at smaller chemical facilities, including for not regulating emissions of ethylene oxide (EtO), a cancer-causing substance, despite repeated calls from the Office of Inspector General (OIG) to do so. The May 24 suit , California Communities Against Toxics, et al. v. Michael Regan, was lodged in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and seeks to force EPA to update...