EPA Seeks To Pause Suit Over Precedent-Setting EtO Sterilizer Air Rule

The Trump EPA is asking a federal appellate court to pause potentially precedent-setting litigation over the agency’s Biden-era rule tightening air toxics limits for ethylene oxide (EtO) sterilizers as they weigh future policy, a request that will likely end litigation on the key question of whether EPA can update such rules because of changes in perceived risk. Before the Trump administration took office, EPA in a Jan. 8 brief , filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District...