EPA Resists Environmentalists’ Bid To Litigate Over decaBDE Rule

EPA is firing back at environmentalists’ latest effort to advance their stalled litigation over EPA’s TSCA rule limiting use of the flame retardant decabromodiphenyl ether (decaBDE) by arguing environmental and tribal petitioners cannot cite a recent order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit as supplemental authority. EPA in a response filed late April 28 , says it “object[s]” to petitioners’ April 27 letter citing supplemental authority from the D.C. Circuit’s April 14 decision in Newburgh Clean...