NRDC says Mexichem ruling does not block suit on HFC guide

April 19, 2019
The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a coalition of states are arguing that an appellate court's recent partial vacatur of a 2016 EPA rule limiting climate-warming hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants should not block their pending challenge to an EPA guidance document related to HFCs. The agency says it issued the April 2018 guidance to implement the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit's August 2017 decision in Mexichem Fluor v. EPA , which struck down part of...


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