Ruling Intensifies Pressure On EPA To Regulate PCBs In Sunk Navy Ships

A federal district court is allowing a lawsuit filed by environmentalists against EPA over its alleged failure to regulate polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) stemming from Navy ship-sinking exercises to proceed on its merits, intensifying pressure on the agency to regulate the vessels under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled June 18 in Basel Action Network (BAN), et al. v. U.S. EPA, et al. to reject EPA's attempt to dismiss the...