Sources Question Significance Of Pending TSCA Methylene Chloride Ruling

June 23, 2025
Former EPA official Bob Sussman is cautioning against expectations that the 5th Circuit may take significant action on consolidated challenges to the Biden-era TSCA rule banning most uses of the common solvent methylene chloride, following oral argument where one judge strongly questioned EPA but another spoke rarely. With Circuit Judge Patrick Higginbotham speaking so little in the case, it would be too difficult to predict what the court might do from oral argument, Sussman, a top former EPA official in...


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