District Court Judge Grants EPA’s Request To Stay Perchlorate Litigation

A federal district court judge is granting EPA’s request to stay litigation over whether the agency can terminate a consent decree that required it to set a drinking water standard for the rocket fuel ingredient perchlorate until an appeals court rules on whether EPA had the authority to decide no national standard is necessary. In an Oct. 27 decision in Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) v. EPA , Judge Edgardo Ramos of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District...