Court Stalls Suit Over RMP Rule As EPA Weighs Reconsideration Petition

A federal appellate court has granted a joint request from EPA and parties challenging its risk management program (RMP) rule updates to put the litigation in abeyance for four months while the agency reconsiders it, a procedural move that will ease officials’ ability to scale it back should former President Donald Trump win re-election in November. In a July 30 order , the court granted the parties’ motion to hold the case in abeyance while EPA considers industry petitioners’ reconsideration...