5th Circuit Panel Criticizes EPA In Novel SNUR Suit But Splits On Reasons

Judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit had tough questions about EPA’s novel TSCA orders blocking use of plastic-fluorination technology tied to PFAS contamination during Feb. 5 arguments, but voiced several possible reasons for scrapping them -- each of which could set vastly different precedent for the law going forward. During Feb. 5 oral argument in Inhance Technologies v. EPA , Chief 5th Circuit Judge Priscilla Richman, a George W. Bush appointee, and Judge Cory T...