Environmentalists’ Suit Seeks To Require EPA Fenceline Monitoring Reviews

Environmentalists are seeking to force EPA to expand its consideration of fenceline air monitoring when reviewing air toxics rules, using a lawsuit over EPA’s lead battery manufacturing regulations to potentially limit the agency’s discretion to avoid in-depth consideration of the technology across various industry sectors. In Hoosier Environmental Council, et al. v. EPA , now pending before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, environmental groups say EPA must consider fenceline monitors as a “development” in...