ACTIVISTS' SUIT ACCUSES DPR OF VIOLATING TOXIC AIR CONTAMINANT ACT

Environmentalists are suing the pesticides department, alleging it has not submitted nearly enough chemicals for consideration as toxic air contaminants (TACs) and has failed to develop regulatory controls for the few chemicals it has sent through the TAC process. Environmentalists also allege in the suit that a new risk assessment process developed by the department is an underground regulation that should be set aside. A department spokesman declined to comment on the lawsuit's specific allegations, but noted that the department...