Court Rejects Manufacturers’ Bid To Scrap EPA Wood-Heater Audit Rules

Wood heater manufacturers have lost their legal bid to scrap EPA requirements for post-sale auditing of their products to ensure compliance with particulate matter (PM) emissions limits, after an appeals court rejected their arguments that EPA did not account for variability in the test results of different laboratories conducting the audits. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, in its unanimous Aug. 27 opinion in Hearth, Patio and Barbecue Association (HPBA) v. EPA , says the...