Automakers’ Claims Set Off Clash Over Scope Of Asbestos Rule Challenge

EPA and anti-asbestos advocates are clashing with automakers over whether litigation over the agency’s landmark TSCA rule for chrysotile asbestos can delve into aspects of both the policy and the agency’s underlying risk evaluation that the group highlighted in an amicus filing but which industry petitioners in the case have so far sidestepped. After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit formally accepted an Oct. 7 amicus brief from the Alliance for Automotive Innovation (AAI) in...