Court Stays Litigation Over EPA’s decaBDE Rule

September 21, 2021
A federal appeals court is approving EPA’s request to stay pending litigation over one of its five TSCA rules governing “persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic” (PBT) chemicals, just as the agency is advancing plans to potentially rework the Trump-era policies. But the Sept. 20 order from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit only delays briefing in Alaska Community Action on Toxics (ACAT), et al., v. EPA by a few weeks, until Oct. 7, after judges waited nearly...


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