Environmentalists Threaten Suit To Force Strict EPA Lead Smelter Air Rule

Environmental groups are pressing EPA to complete a long-delayed reconsideration of air toxics standards for secondary lead smelters, which are used to recover lead from discarded products, threatening the agency with litigation to force completion of its rethink of Obama-era regulations and of a separate Clean Air Act-mandated review. EPA has for nine years failed to complete reconsideration of its 2012 rule setting national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants (NESHAP) for the sector, despite acknowledging “serious flaws” in the...