EPA, Environmentalists Continue Talks In PMN Suit

EPA and environmentalists continue to discuss the possibility of settling the groups’ challenge to certain longstanding practices in EPA’s new chemicals review program, which environmentalists argue is unlawfully opaque, while industry attorneys have warned that a settlement could give third parties a role in new chemical decisions. Attorneys for plaintiffs and EPA filed an Oct. 1 case management statement telling the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that settlement discussions in Environmental Defense Fund et al. v. Regan...