Industry Launches Sweeping Legal Attacks On Methylene Chloride Rule

Industry trade groups and individual companies are asking the 5th Circuit to scrap EPA’s TSCA rule governing methylene chloride for a litany of reasons, saying the agency ignored research on the chemical’s dangers and statutory limits on its own authority in both its evaluation of the chemical and subsequent rulemaking. Industry parties’ Oct. 9 opening brief in East Fork Enterprises, et al., v. EPA sets out sweeping arguments for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit to...