D.C. Circuit Denies Stay Of Taconite Air Limits In Blow To Steel Sector Suits

A three-judge D.C. Circuit panel has rejected the steel industry’s bid to stay newly tightened air toxics limits for taconite iron ore production -- a loss for the sector’s overarching efforts to stall EPA’s recent raft of tougher rules for steel production and associated sectors that have invoked broadly similar legal arguments for judicial stays. In an Oct. 3 per curiam order , U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Judges Patricia Millett, Nina Pillard and...