Metal Finishers Eye Legal Challenge To CARB Phaseout Of Chrome-6 Uses

A metal finishing industry group is eyeing a lawsuit to challenge the California air board’s adoption last month of rules to phase out uses of hexavalent chromium (chrome-6) at metal-plating operations, potentially raising environmental review or administrative procedure violation claims against the board. “We’re looking at all legal options at this time,” Bryan Leiker, executive director of the Metal Finishing Association of California, tells Inside CalEPA . “I was just speaking with our lawyers and we’re trying to figure out...