Court Backs Environmentalists' Call To Continue Lead Paint Rule Suit

A federal appellate court has agreed to environmentalists' request to continue monitoring their suit over EPA's failure to propose a rule to protect occupants of public and commercial buildings from lead exposure possible during renovation and repair activities, after suggesting late last year that it terminate the decade-old case. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in a Jan. 22 order “discharged” its own motion of last December “directing parties to show cause why this case...