9th Circuit Grants EPA Remand Request For Dust-Lead Clearance Levels

A federal appeals court has granted EPA’s request to voluntarily remand back to the agency, without vacatur, its dust-lead clearance levels, but has rejected environmentalists’ push for the court to also retain jurisdiction and require status reports on the rulemaking. In a brief Jan. 19 order , a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit granted EPA’s motion for voluntary remand without vacatur of its dust-lead clearance levels (DLCL) in the case, A Community Voice,...