In Court Filing, EPA Defends Decision To Forgo Perchlorate Water Limit

EPA is defending its decision to forego regulation of the rocket fuel ingredient perchlorate in drinking water and to terminate a consent decree with environmentalists requiring such a limit, claiming that it lacks the authority to issue the standard and that legal circumstances have changed over time. The agency July 30 filed its reply brief to a challenge brought by the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) over EPA’s efforts to terminate the consent decree. NRDC, in a potentially precedent-setting case,...