Environmentalists Cite Unusual Ruling To Speed EPA Air Toxics Rule

November 9, 2004
Environmentalists are citing a recent federal appeals court's unusually detailed ruling that defines when an agency's timetable for action is unreasonable to urge the court to make EPA promptly set new air toxics standards required by a 2000 court order for cement kilns. The environmentalists say the new ruling also provides them ammunition to speed EPA's compliance with several other court orders -- some handed down as recently as last summer -- on pending air toxics requirements for polyvinyl chloride...


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